Pivdenna Bay or Yuzhnaya Bay is one of the harbour bays in

Sevastopol Sevastopol ( ), sometimes written Sebastopol, is the largest city in Crimea and a major port on the Black Sea. Due to its strategic location and the navigability of the city's harbours, Sevastopol has been an important port and naval base th ...

. On March 22, 2014, during the

2014 Russian military intervention in Ukraine The Russo-Ukrainian War began in February 2014 and is ongoing. Following Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity, Russia occupied and annexed Crimea from Ukraine. It then supported Russian paramilitaries who began a war in the eastern Donbas re ...

, Russian forces captured the only Ukrainian submarine, known as the ''Zaporizhya'', and took it to Pivdenna Bay, according to Vladislav Seleznyov, a spokesman for the Ukrainian military.

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Bays of Sevastopol {{Crimea-geo-stub