Kazachya Bay
| Kazachya Bay Russian Казачья бухта |
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 Boats in the Kazachya Bay |
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| Waters | Black Sea | |
| Land mass | Europe | |
| Geographical location | 44 ° 34 '30 " N , 33 ° 24' 45" E | |
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| surface | 1.9 km² with or 1.7 km² without Soljonaya Bay | |
| Coastline | 9.2 km with and 7.6 km without Soljonaya Bay | |
 Shallow water and reeds in Solyonaya Bay |
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The Kazachya Bay ( Russian Казачья бухта , transcribed Kasachja buchta , translated Cossack Bay ) in Sevastopol is the western part of the Dvoinaja Bay , which translates from Russian as double bay .
location
The Gulf is located near the extreme southwestern tip of the Crimea and forks from north to south into an eastern and a western part. The latter forms the Soljonaya Bay , in a sense a bay within the bay. The main bay is about 2.9 kilometers long and up to one kilometer wide. Together with the adjacent Kamyshovaya Bay to the east , it flows into the Black Sea . It is bordered by the coastlines of two peninsulas . In the east this is the headland called Seredinnowo poluostrowa (translated Middle Peninsula ), which separates Kazachya and Kamyshovaya Bay. In the west lies the Chersonese peninsula with the ancient city of the same name.
State affiliation
At least since the declaration of independence of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol on March 11, 2014 and the proclamation of the Republic of Crimea , the Crimean peninsula has been the subject of territorial disputes between Russia and Ukraine . On March 20 of the same year, Crimea and the city of Sevastopol were admitted to the Russian Federation following a Duma decision . This de facto - annexation was not recognized internationally majority and sanctions occupied.
Development
In contrast to Soljonaya Bay, Kasachya Bay is navigable. Most of the adjacent area is used for military buildings such as barracks, warehouses and other facilities. On the middle peninsula there is an extensive area for exercise and training of the crews of battle tanks and amphibious vehicles . At the inner end of the bay are port facilities, office and residential buildings that are mainly used by members of the armed forces. In addition to the yacht club called "Kazachya Bukhta", the military base of the 810th Marine Infantry Brigade, also known as the Russian Black Sea Fleet (BSF), is located here.
In the southernmost part of the Kasachja Bay is the small island Swjatowo Klimenta , which is named after Saint Clement of Rome . Here is a memorial to the members of the first amphibious landing squadron , which was deployed to defend the city in the 1941 Battle of Odessa . It is the work of the Armenian sculptor Карлен Калантарян (Karlen Kalantaryan) and was installed in 1972.
You can swim along the entire shoreline of the Cossack Bay, the water on the mostly wild beaches is clean and clear and largely free of algae. The water, which is very clean compared to the port of Kamyshovaya Bay, enables mussels to be farmed.
For the same reasons, the Oceanarium of the Soviet Navy was founded here in the summer of 1965 and the first Dolphinarium of the USSR was established in 1967 . In addition to other experimental research, the investigations were increasingly focused on the military use of dolphins in the early 1970s . Today the winter quarters of the Sevastopol Dolphinarium are located here. During the summer months, events with bottlenose dolphins are performed every day in Artilleriskaya Bay (translated artillery bay ) in the city center.
Depending on the language and transliteration, there are different spellings for the Cossack Bay: Cossak, Kazasch, Kazatch, Kazachka or Kazachya or Kazatcha. What they all have in common is the respective name for the riding people of the Cossacks . During the war with the Ottoman Empire in the 1770s, under Russian rule, Cossacks were settled along the coast to protect the hinterland, which is probably where the most plausible origin of the name can be found.
Soljonaya Bay
The Soljonaya Bay (translated Salty Bay ) is the western extension of the Kazachya Bay in a north-south direction. It is about one kilometer long and encloses an area of 0.24 km² with a coastline of 2.20 km. Their shallow water is largely unsuitable for shipping. This is especially true for the southern part, where the average water depth behind a sandbank does not exceed a few meters.
On the eastern bank there are numerous empty beaches with bathing facilities and only sparse vegetation.
The water of the Salty Bay , which becomes shallower towards the land, merges into a small swamp that is the remains of a salt lake. At the end of the 18th century it was still used for salt extraction, which explains the name. Over time, the lake has become part of the bay and apparently the newest part of the inlet.
In the past, the bay was seen as an independent bend or as part of the Dwoinaja Bay. At that time this was still called Troinaja buchta (translated triple bay ) in Russian . After the construction of the piers that separate the fishing port in Kamyshovaya Bay from the open sea, this has changed and the Salty Bay is only considered part of the Cossack Bay . Accordingly , what was once a triple bay became a double bay , as the translation from the Russian Dwoinaja buchta is. In English , the impending confusion was countered with the interpretation “Triple-Double Bay” in an extremely imaginative way.
history
On November 14, 1854, at the time of the Crimean War , the bay, like the entire Crimean peninsula, was the scene of a devastating catastrophe. A strong hurricane low came from Spain , across all of Europe, and continued to the Black Sea. On the night of November 13-14, the completely unprepared French and English naval formations anchored here were hit . At that time it was not yet possible to predict the storm for the Crimea in time. In the storm, numerous ships went down or crashed on cliffs . In addition, five English and two Ottoman warships sank at the mouths of the Katscha and Belbek rivers , no fewer than eleven in Balaklava , and the French lost the ship of the line " Henry IV " at Evpatoria .
In response to the debacle, the then French government under Napoleon III. the astronomer and director of the Paris Observatory, Urbain Le Verrier , to investigate the storm afterwards. The French weather service was founded on the basis of his expert opinion.
Since September 11th, 1863, France has published daily weather reports for initially western, southern and later all of Europe.
Flora and fauna
In the particularly shallow part of Soljonaya Bay, the water is no more than 1.5 meters deep. Many species of fish such as mullets and red mullets spawn here . It is also the habitat of many species of crabs and , more rarely, crustaceans such as mantis shrimp , hermit crabs and seahorses . Many species of migratory birds like different species of wild ducks , swans , coots , teals , herons , kingfishers and many others also winter in this bay . On its banks are the remains of the reed that gave the neighboring Kamyshovaya Bay its name.
Due to the large number of wild beaches and the clean water, the area is very popular with the population of Sevastopol as a destination for excursions.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Kazachya Bay on the website of the city of Sevastopol . Archived from the original on July 9, 2015. Retrieved December 14, 2016.
- ↑ The Sevastopol Dolphinarium . Retrieved December 12, 2016.
- ↑ a b Solyonaya Bay on the website of the city of Sevastopol . Archived from the original on July 11, 2015. Retrieved December 14, 2016.
- ↑ H.-J. Aufm Kampe, “The weather and its causes”, p. 2 . Google Books . Retrieved August 12, 2016.