The Tarkhankut Peninsula (; ; ) is the peninsula which constitutes the western extremity of

Crimea Crimea ( ) is a peninsula in Eastern Europe, on the northern coast of the Black Sea, almost entirely surrounded by the Black Sea and the smaller Sea of Azov. The Isthmus of Perekop connects the peninsula to Kherson Oblast in mainland Ukrain ...

into the

Black Sea The Black Sea is a marginal sea, marginal Mediterranean sea (oceanography), mediterranean sea lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia. It is bound ...

. Its northern shore is a southern coast of the Karkinit Bay. Its westernmost point is ; to the south of it is Cape Tarkhankut. The terrain of the peninsula is the Tarkhankut Highlands.

Geography

Cape Tarkhankut

Cape Tarkhankut is a south-western cape of the Peninsula. The Tarkhankut Lighthouse is located on the cape.

Tarkhankut Upland

The Tarkhankut Upland or Tarkhankut Hills is an

upland Upland or Uplands may refer to: Geography *Hill, an area of higher land, generally *Highland, an area of higher land divided into low and high points *Upland and lowland, conditional descriptions of a plain based on elevation above sea level *I ...

that constitutes the Tarkhankut Peninsula. The Tarkhankut Wind Farm is located by the

Donuzlav Lake Donuzlav (Russian and Ukrainian: Донузлав, ), also referred to as Donuzlav Bay, is the deepest lakeOliferov, A.M. Donuzlav (ДОНУЗЛА́В)'. Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine. of Crimea () and biggest in Chornomorske Raion (). It ...

lake on the Tarkhankut Upland.

Donuzlav

The

Lake () is a salty lake that is connected to the

via a ship channel and located at the southern shores of the peninsula.

History

Russo-Ukrainian War

During the

Russo-Ukrainian War The Russo-Ukrainian War began in February 2014 and is ongoing. Following Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity, Russia Russian occupation of Crimea, occupied and Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, annexed Crimea from Ukraine. It then ...

, the

Russian Armed Forces The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, commonly referred to as the Russian Armed Forces, are the military of Russia. They are organized into three service branches—the Russian Ground Forces, Ground Forces, Russian Navy, Navy, and Russi ...

stationed the 3rd Radio Engineering Regiment to the region. The area was also equipped with

S-400 missile system The S-400 Triumf ( – Triumf; translation: Triumph; NATO reporting name: SA-21 Growler), previously known as the S-300 PMU-3, is a mobile surface-to-air missile (SAM) system developed in the 1990s by Russia's NPO Almaz as an upgrade to the S ...

for air defense. On August 23, 2023, the Ukrainian military allegedly destroyed the site.

References

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