Budaki, or Budaksky Lagoon (other names: Shabolatsky Liman, Shabolat, Budaksky Liman; , ) is a

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lagoon A lagoon is a shallow body of water separated from a larger body of water by a narrow landform, such as reefs, barrier islands, barrier peninsulas, or isthmuses. Lagoons are commonly divided into ''coastal lagoons'' (or ''barrier lagoons'') an ...

( liman) in

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, southern

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. Located in 18 km from the city of

Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi (, ; ; ), historically known as Aq Kirmān () or by other names, is a port city in Odesa Oblast, southwestern Ukraine. It is situated on the right bank of the Dniester Estuary leading to the Black Sea, in the historical r ...

. The

is separated from the

by the 80–200 m wide

sandbar In oceanography, geomorphology, and geoscience, a shoal is a natural submerged ridge, bank, or bar that consists of, or is covered by, sand or other unconsolidated material, and rises from the bed of a body of water close to the surface or ...

. The

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of Serhiivka is located on the coasts of the Budaki Lagoon. The temporary connection between the

and the

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is organised via artificial

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«Budaki» (on the southern west), sometime via natural erosion (washout) of the sandbar. The

is connected to the

Dniester Estuary Dniester Estuary, or Dniester Liman (; ) is a liman, formed at the point where the river Dniester flows into the Black Sea. It is located in Ukraine, in Odesa Oblast, and connects Budjak to the Ukrainian mainland. The city of Bilhorod-Dnistrovsky ...

via

canals Canals or artificial waterways are waterways or engineered channels built for drainage management (e.g. flood control and irrigation) or for conveyancing water transport vehicles (e.g. water taxi). They carry free, calm surface flow u ...

«Bugaz-1» and «Bugaz-2». In the central part of the

, in the urban-type settlement of Serhiivka, the bridge is connect the town with the sandbar. The

has 17 km long, 1.5 km wide, 0.8-2.4 m elevation, area of 27–32 km². The length of the sandbar is about 18 km, its width is 80–200 m. The lagoon is shallow, maximal depth up to 2.2 m, average 1.05 m. In summer the temperature of the water is 26-28°С, up to 33 °C on shallow water. In the last 20 years the

salinity Salinity () is the saltiness or amount of salt (chemistry), salt dissolved in a body of water, called saline water (see also soil salinity). It is usually measured in g/L or g/kg (grams of salt per liter/kilogram of water; the latter is dimensio ...

of the liman is ranged between 2 and 32‰. Now the most desalinated part is the Akkembet Bay and the northeast of the lagoon, which connected to the

(

Salinity Salinity () is the saltiness or amount of salt (chemistry), salt dissolved in a body of water, called saline water (see also soil salinity). It is usually measured in g/L or g/kg (grams of salt per liter/kilogram of water; the latter is dimensio ...

2-14‰), and maximal mineralization is in southwest (15-32‰). The name of the lagoon, Budaki is the old name of the village of Prymorske, which origine from , means "corner", "nook". Another name of the lagoon, Shabolat, is origine from the name of another village, Shabo ( - lower gardens), which located north from the

References

* Starushenko L.I., Bushuyev S.G. (2001) Prichernomorskiye limany Odeschiny i ih rybohoziaystvennoye znacheniye. Astroprint, Odesa, 151 pp. (in Russian) * North-western Black Sea: biology and ecology, Eds.: Y.P. Zaitsev, B.G. Aleksandrov, G.G. Minicheva, Naukova Dumka, Kyiv, 2006, 701 pp.

External links

Liman on the site of Sergiyivka

Pictures of the lagoon

Saline lakes of Europe Lagoons of the Black Sea Lagoons of Ukraine Landforms of Odesa Oblast Geography of Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Raion {{Ukraine-geo-stub