Chernaya River (Ukraine)

The Chorna, Chyornaya or Chorhun (, ''Chorna'', , ''Chyornaya'', ), which translates from the Ukrainian and Russian as "Black River", is a small river in southern

Crimea Crimea, crh, Къырым, Qırım, grc, Κιμμερία / Ταυρική, translit=Kimmería / Taurikḗ ( ) is a peninsula in Ukraine, on the northern coast of the Black Sea, that has been occupied by Russia since 2014. It has a pop ...

. It is 34.5 km long. The Chorna River begins in the Baydar Valley northeast of the small town of Rodnikivs'ke (44° 28' N 33° 51' EG), just west of which it flows into a reservoir. From there it continues in a westerly direction to the town of

Inkerman Inkerman ( uk, Інкерман, russian: Инкерман, crh, İnkerman) is a city in the Crimean peninsula. It is '' de facto'' within the federal city of Sevastopol within the Russian Federation, but '' de jure'' within Ukraine. It li ...

(Belokamensk) where it enters the Bay of Sevastopol, on the southwest coast of the Crimean peninsula. Inkerman was a key location during the

Crimean War The Crimean War, , was fought from October 1853 to February 1856 between Russia and an ultimately victorious alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom and Piedmont-Sardinia. Geopolitical causes of the war included the ...

of 1853–1856 and the Chorna lends its name to the Battle of Chornaya River of 1855. {{Rivers of Ukraine Rivers of Crimea