The Isthmus of Ak-Monay (, , ) or Isthmus of Parpach () is a narrowing of the
Crimea Peninsula
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 ...
to a 17-km width between the
Gulf of Feodosia (
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 ...
) to the south and
Sivash
The Syvash or Sivash (Russian and Ukrainian: ; , Cyrillic: Сываш, "dirt"), also known as the or (, ''Gniloye More''; , ''Hnyle More''; ), is a large area of shallow lagoons on the western edge of the Sea of Azov. Separated from the sea ...
and the
Bay of Arabat
The Bay of Arabat, (, , ), is in the southwestern Azov Sea in eastern Europe.
It is located along the northwestern coast of the Kerch Peninsula and northeastern coast of Crimea.
See also
* Arabat Spit
The Arabat Spit (; ; ) or Arabat Arrow ...
(
Sea of Azov
The Sea of Azov is an inland Continental shelf#Shelf seas, shelf sea in Eastern Europe connected to the Black Sea by the narrow (about ) Strait of Kerch, and sometimes regarded as a northern extension of the Black Sea. The sea is bounded by Ru ...
) to the north. The isthmus connects
Kerch Peninsula
The Kerch Peninsula is a major and prominent geographic peninsula located at the eastern end of the Crimean Peninsula.
This peninsula stretches eastward toward the Taman Peninsula between the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea. Most of the peninsula i ...
to the rest of Crimea.
The names was given by the former names of the villages Kamenskoe (Ak-Monay) and Yachmennoe (Parpach).
Sources
* Гриневецкий С. Р., Зонн И. С., Жильцов С. С. Ак-Монайский перешеек // Черноморская энциклопедия. М.: Международные отношения, 2006. —
Ak-Monay
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