Cape Aya (
Ukrainian
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* Something of, from, or related to Ukraine
* Something relating to Ukrainians, an East Slavic people from Eastern Europe
* Something relating to demographics of Ukraine in terms of demography and population of Ukraine
* So ...
: Мис Айя,
Russian: Мыс Айя,
Crimean Tatar: Ayya) is a rocky
promontory jutting out into the
Black Sea
The Black Sea is a marginal mediterranean sea of the Atlantic Ocean 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 bounded by Bulgaria, Georgia, Rom ...
southeast of
Balaklava. This 13-km-long offspur of the
Crimean Mountains
The Crimean Mountains ( uk, Кримські гори, translit. ''Krymski hory''; russian: Крымские горы, translit. ''Krymskie gory''; crh, Qırım dağları) are a range of mountains running parallel to the south-eastern coast o ...
separates Laspi Bay (to the east) from
Balaklava Bay
Balaklava Bay is a bay in the Black Sea near Balaklava, Crimea
Crimea, crh, Къырым, Qırım, grc, Κιμμερία / Ταυρική, translit=Kimmería / Taurikḗ ( ) is a peninsula in Ukraine, on the northern coast of the Bl ...
(to the west).
The name of the cape derives from “holy one" in
Greek, “Άγια”.
The highest point, Kokiya-Kiya (literally "Blue Cliff") is . The headland is full of
grottoes; it is protected as a national ''
zakaznik''.
A storm off Cape Aya is the subject of one of
Aivazovsky
Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (russian: link=no, Иван Константинович Айвазовский; 29 July 18172 May 1900) was a Russian Romantic painter who is considered one of the greatest masters of marine art. Baptized a ...
's paintings. A Soviet guided missile system was located on Cape Aya.
Viktor Yanukovych, the former
President of Ukraine, ordered the construction of a luxurious private residence on Cape Aya. The "New
Mezhyhyria", or popularly known as "Mezhyhirya 2" closed locals off from the coast, and was still unfinished when the
Revolution of Dignity ousted Yanukovych from his post.
References
Landforms of Sevastopol
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