This map is significant for its rendering of topographic information that allows the viewer to understand the city of Sevastopol in its geographic context. It informs you of the scale of the cliffs and the walled nature of the bays with artistic depictions that provide a different emphasis than that which can be conveyed through a top-down view provided with hachures and 2-dimensional graphics. The unique horizon-oriented ariel angle of the map also serves to show Sevastopol in a broader context, including coasts and mountains north of the city.
