Budaki, or Budaksky Lagoon (other names: Shabolatsky Liman, Shabolat, Budaksky Liman; uk, Будацький лиман, Шаболат, ro, Limanul Budachi, Şabolat) 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'') a ...

( liman) in

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, southern

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. Located in 18 km from the city of

Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi ( uk, Бі́лгород-Дністро́вський, Bílhorod-Dnistróvskyy, ; ro, Cetatea Albă), historically known as Akkerman ( tr, Akkerman) or under different names, is a city, municipality and port situated on ...

. The

is separated from the

by the 80–200 m wide

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. The

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urban-type settlement Urban-type settlementrussian: посёлок городско́го ти́па, translit=posyolok gorodskogo tipa, abbreviated: russian: п.г.т., translit=p.g.t.; ua, селище міського типу, translit=selyshche mis'koho typu, ab ...

Serhiivka Serhiivka ( uk, Сергіївка) may refer to the following places in Ukraine: Chernihiv Oblast *Serhiivka, Chernihiv Oblast Donetsk Oblast *Serhiivka, Donetsk Oblast Dnipropetrovsk Oblast *Serhiivka, Dnipro Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast *Serhi ...

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 via canals «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 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 dimensionless and equal ...

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 Dniester Estuary (

Salinity Salinity () is the saltiness or amount of 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 dimensionless and equal ...

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 tr, Bucak, means "corner", "nook". Another name of the lagoon, Shabolat, is origine from the name of another village, Shabo ( tr, Acha-abag - 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 {{Ukraine-geo-stub