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The Tendra Spit or Island of Tendra is a
sandbar In oceanography, geomorphology, and geoscience, a shoal is a natural submerged ridge, bank, or bar that consists of, or is covered by, sand or other unconsolidated material, and rises from the bed of a body of water close to the surface or ...
in the
Black Sea The Black Sea is a marginal sea, marginal Mediterranean sea (oceanography), mediterranean sea 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 bound ...
and part of
Kherson Oblast Kherson Oblast (, ; ), also known as Khersonshchyna (, ), is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast (province) in southern Ukraine. It is located just north of Crimea. Its administrative center is Kherson, on the northern or right bank ...
in
Ukraine Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the List of European countries by area, second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which Russia–Ukraine border, borders it to the east and northeast. Ukraine also borders Belarus to the nor ...
. The island separates the Gulf of Tendra from the Black Sea and is located at the southern and western part of the bay. In the west the island has a spit called ''Bili Kuchuhury'' which stretches east through the Gulf of Tendra as a
shoal In oceanography, geomorphology, and Earth science, geoscience, a shoal is a natural submerged ridge, bank (geography), bank, or bar that consists of, or is covered by, sand or other unconsolidated material, and rises from the bed of a body ...
towards the Yahorlyk Kut peninsula. Bili Kuchuhury contains the Bili Kuchuhury Lighthouse. The Tendra Lighthouse is also on the island.


History

The Battle of Tendra took place on 8 and 9 September 1790. The mutiny of men on board the Russian battleship ''
Potemkin Prince Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin-Tauricheski (A number of dates as late as 1742 have been found on record; the veracity of any one is unlikely to be proved. This is his "official" birth-date as given on his tombstone.) was a Russian mi ...
'' took place off Tendra Spit in June 1905. During the
Russian invasion of Ukraine On 24 February 2022, , starting the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, conflict between the two countries which began in 2014. The fighting has caused hundreds of thou ...
, on the night of 28 February 2024, Ukrainian Special Operations Forces troops from 73rd Maritime Special Operations Center attempted to make a landing on the sandbar. They were ambushed by the Russian troops and sustained heavy casualties. According to the Russian MOD, 4 boats out of 5 were destroyed or sunk and up to 25 Ukrainian soldiers were killed. One Ukrainian soldier was captured. On 7 August 2024, Ukraine announced that it had conducted another raid on the Tendra Spit.


Ancient History

In classical times, the spit was known as "Achilles' Racecourse"


See also

* Dzharylhach * Raids on Tendra Spit


References


External links


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Encyclopedia of Ukraine The ''Encyclopedia of Ukraine'' (), published from 1984 to 2001, is a fundamental work of Ukrainian Studies. Development The work was created under the auspices of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in Europe (Sarcelles, near Paris). As the ...

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