__NOTOC__ Tuzla Spit or Kosa Tuzla (, ) was a long narrow

peninsula A peninsula is a landform that extends from a mainland and is only connected to land on one side. Peninsulas exist on each continent. The largest peninsula in the world is the Arabian Peninsula. Etymology The word ''peninsula'' derives , . T ...

or sandy spit in the eastern part of the

Strait of Kerch The Kerch Strait is a strait in Eastern Europe. It connects the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, separating the Kerch Peninsula of Crimea in the west from the Taman Peninsula of Russia's Krasnodar Krai in the east. The strait is to wide and u ...

which extended from Mys Tuzla, Krasnodarskiy Kray, Russia

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to the north-west in the direction of the city

Kerch Kerch, also known as Keriç or Kerich, is a city of regional significance on the Kerch Peninsula in the east of Crimea. It has a population of Founded 2,600 years ago as the Colonies in antiquity#Greek colonies, ancient Greek colony Pantik ...

for almost .

History

In 1925, the spit was cut by a storm, forming

Tuzla Island The Tuzla Island (; ; ; from Turkic "tuzla" – salty, saline, : ''saltpan'') is a sandy islet in the form of a spit located in the middle of the Strait of Kerch, between the Kerch Peninsula in the west and the Taman Peninsula in the east. ...

. The open-water channel between Tuzla Island and the Russian mainland where the spit had previously existed reached over a kilometer in width. Tuzla Spit consisted of the Tuzla Island () and two small islands on the

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n side ( and ), and a narrow sand bar connecting them all. The two small islands were re-connected to each other by the 2003 construction by Russia of the 4.1 km long Tuzla dam (). The Tuzla Spit formed the southern shore of the

Taman Bay The Taman Bay (Russian language, Russian: Таманский залив) is a shallow bay or gulf on the east coast of the Strait of Kerch shaped on the southern side by the Tuzla Spit and to the north by the Chushka Spit. It dips into the Taman P ...

; the northern shore is the

Chushka Spit __NOTOC__ Chushka Spit () is a sandy spit in the northern part of the Strait of Kerch. It extends from Cape Achilleion and the town of to the south-west in the direction of the Black Sea for almost . Administratively, it belongs to Temryuksky ...

Crimean bridge

The remnants of the Tuzla Spit were utilized in the building of the

Crimean Bridge The Crimean Bridge (, ; ), also called Kerch Strait Bridge or Kerch Bridge, is a pair of parallel bridges, one for a four-lane road and one for a double-track railway, spanning the Kerch Strait between the Taman Peninsula of Krasnodar Krai in ...

References

External links

«Остров Тузла»
— Севастополь «ОК», № 1-2, 2000 г.

— Тамань. Ру > Фотогалерея > Коса Тузла
Фотография окончания искусственной косы с воздуха

* ttp://mapl37.narod.ru/map2/index25.html Лист карты L-37-XXV Аршинцево. Масштаб: 1:200 000. Издание 1982 г.{{commonscategory, Tuzla Spit, position=left Destroyed landforms Spits of the Sea of Azov Spits of Crimea Spits of Krasnodar Krai Kerch Strait

History

Crimean bridge

See also

References

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