__NOTOC__ Tuzla Spit or Kosa Tuzla (russian: Тузлинская коса, Коса Тузла, uk, Коса Тузла) was a long narrow

peninsula A peninsula (; ) is a landform that extends from a mainland and is surrounded by water on most, but not all of its borders. A peninsula is also sometimes defined as a piece of land bordered by water on three of its sides. Peninsulas exist on all ...

or sandy spit in the eastern part of the

Strait of Kerch The Kerch Strait, uk, Керченська протока, crh, Keriç boğazı, ady, Хы ТӀуалэ 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 f ...

which extended from Mys Tuzla, Krasnodarskiy Kray, Russia
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Kerch Kerch ( uk, Керч; russian: Керчь, ; Old East Slavic: Кърчевъ; Ancient Greek: , ''Pantikápaion''; Medieval Greek: ''Bosporos''; crh, , ; tr, Kerç) is a city of regional significance on the Kerch Peninsula in the east of t ...

for almost .

History

In 1925 the spit was cut by a storm, forming

Tuzla Island Tuzla Island (, , crh, Тузла; from Turkish "tuzla" – salty, saline, literally: ''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 Pe ...

. 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

Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...

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: 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 Peninsula of Kras ...

; the northern shore is the

Chushka Spit __NOTOC__ The Chushka Spit (russian: Коса Чушка) is a sandy spit in the northern part of the Strait of Kerch which extends from Cape Achilleion to the south-west in the direction of the Black Sea for almost . Administratively, it belong ...

Crimean bridge

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

Crimean Bridge The Crimean Bridge ( rus, Крымский мост, r=Krymskiy most, p=ˈkrɨmskʲij most), 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 t ...

References

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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. 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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