Koyashskoye or Koyashs'ke is a

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on the coast of the

Kerch Peninsula The Kerch Peninsula is a major and prominent geographic peninsula located at the eastern end of the Crimean Peninsula, Ukraine. This peninsula stretches eastward toward the Taman peninsula between the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea. Most of the ...

Crimea Crimea, crh, Къырым, Qırım, grc, Κιμμερία / Ταυρική, translit=Kimmería / Taurikḗ ( ) is a peninsula in Ukraine, on the northern coast of the Black Sea, that has been occupied by Russia since 2014. It has a pop ...

, separated from the

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by a strip of land. It is 4 kilometers long, 2 kilometers wide and a meter deep. The lake has the particularity to have a

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to scarlet color, depending on the light, due to the presence of microscopic

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e living in the water. When the water evaporates, the salt in the lake crystallizes on the stones and the shores, producing crystal stones and the scent of

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Uzunlarske Lake Uzunlarske Lake ( Russian: Узунла́рское о́зеро, Ukrainian: Узунларське озеро, Crimean Tatar: Uzunlar gölü) is a salt lake in the south of the Kerch Peninsula in the Lenine Raion district of Crimea. The lake be ...

is located directly west. This location is considered healing and is appreciated by some locals. It is not widely known to the tourists.

References

* * {{cite web , url=http://www.express.co.uk/travel/articles/583270/The-Koyashskoye-Salt-Lake-Ukraine-visit-travel, title=It's (not) out of this world: The Koyashskoye Salt Lake of Ukraine is awe-inspiring, date=June 9, 2015, website=express.co.uk, publisher=Daily Express, access-date=June 14, 2015 Saline lakes of Europe Lakes of Crimea Black Sea