Arabat Spit

The Arabat - Spit (Ukrainian Арабатська стрілка / Arabatska Strilka; Russian Арабатская стрелка / Arabatskaja strelka; Crimean Tatar Arabat beli ) is a 112 km long spit that separates the Sea of ​​Azov from Sywasch.

The Spit is located between the city Henitschesk, Ukraine, to the north and the north-east coast of the Crimean Peninsula in the south. From Henitschesk it is through the Henitschesk Street (Russian: Генический пролив ) separately. Another name for it is thin road (Russian: Тонкий Пролив ), which refers to the geometry - it is about 4 km long, 80-150 m wide and 4.6 m deep.

The Arabat - Spit is 112 km long and 270 m to 8 km wide; its area is 395 km ², the average width is 3.5 km. The Spit is low on the side of the Sea of ​​Azov and straight, while it is swinging on the Sywasch page. There are two 7-8 km wide areas with brown clay hills; these areas are located at a distance of 7.5 km and 32 km from the Henitschesk Street. Otherwise the surface is formed of sand and fragments of shell that have been washed up from the Sea of ​​Azov. The vegetation consists mostly of various grasses and herbs, blackthorn, fescue grasses, spring grasses, sea cabbage, salt herbs, Quellern, Carex colchica, tamarisk, rose hips, licorice, inter alia, Today, the Spit is a recreation area and the sea side is used as a beach. The waters are shallow and only reach 100-200 meters from the shore to a depth of 2 meters. Water temperatures are around 0 ° C in winter, in spring and autumn at 10-15 ° C in summer and be 25-30 ° C; air temperatures are about the same. About half of the spit belongs to the northern Kherson Oblast and the southern half, which borders the Arabat Bay, the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.