The Temryuk region is a land of carefully watered vine and melon plantations, dozens of bays and estuaries, mud volcanoes and bright green river floodplains. This area has always been proud of our Krasnodar region... Kosa Chushka is one of the reasons for this. We are talking about a sandbank in the Kerch Strait, 18 km long. An excellent spa vacation... Leisure is designed for the whole family - children are waiting for quite safe entry into the water, as well as gentle sand. The proximity to the road will also please.
Where is the Chushka spit located?
The map gives the traveler an idea of the location of the scenic spit. It begins as an extension of Cape Achilleion and goes southwest at right angles. It stretches towards Tuzla - these shoals are separated by only 6 km of water space.
On the map Krasnodar Territory the Chushka spit is located as follows:
Historical background
Hundreds of years ago, violent storms brought Kerch Strait so much sand that several huge shoals were formed here: like, Chushka once blocked the strait altogether and served as the shortest road from Crimea to North Caucasus... The name of the attraction was born from local residents in the 19th century. The fact is that dolphins were often thrown at it, and the Little Russians called them porpoises: a pig in their dialect sounds like "chushka".
During the years of Hitler's occupation of Crimea, the Reich Minister proposed building a crossing to the Caucasus here, but the Germans did not manage to do this before the Red Army attacked.
In 1944, the spit was nevertheless connected to the Crimea by a railway bridge - by the forces of Soviet workers. However, a large ice drift demolished this structure in the same year, and new design solutions did not find a response from the then leadership of the country. Today, the elongated and reedy recreation is a gathering place for fishermen and bathers living in the village of Ilyich, as well as car tourists. One of its sections is the territory where the Port Kavkaz ferry is located.
Rest in the west of the Krasnodar Territory
The Temryuk District is a beautiful landscape in the Krasnodar Territory. Kosa Chushka is one of the three main local "business cards", because it is located simultaneously in the Black and Azov seas. Many travelers strive to visit the sandbank, which is attractive in terms of its outlines and vegetation. Some of them are fishermen, the other half are picnic lovers with intense swimming.
It is characteristic that Chushka is more impressive in width than Tuzla - from 500 to 1000 m. As a result, this geographical object can also be called a peninsula. Its northwestern side is relatively straight, and the southeastern side resembles a horse's mane from above - a huge number of branches branch off from the main coastal massif. The backwaters formed by them in the spring and in the first half of June turn into spawning pits for herring, flounder, crucian carp, pike, goby and ram.
The building material of the "resort" tract is large quartzite and shell rock. The highway and the railway road under construction pass along an artificial embankment - they are protected from flooding. The beaches are located where there is still more sand than vegetation. They are located in the space closest to Ilyich. The entry into the sea is shallow here, but there are equally many shells (with sharp edges) along the entire length.
Additional opportunities in Temryuk district
At the Chushka spit there are two isolated pieces of land - the islands of Krupinina and Dzendzik. You can get to them by any floating means, which local couples in love have used more than once. But the islands of Lisiy and Gollenky are so small that few people know. Here you can safely hide any treasures - the main thing is to find them yourself later.
Some come to the farthest end of the sandy outcropping, thinking that this is where no one will be. However, too many people think so - the south-western patch is packed with cars with Krasnodar and other numbers.
Reviews, left in the network by hundreds of tourists, call this place "a continuous sandy beach", "sand hidden in reeds", "a fishing spot", "a warehouse of beautiful shells" and other epithets. Often this location used by small groups of nudists, but none of their clubs have a permanent beach here. Buy food for a picnic in Ilyich.
How to get there (get there)?
To get to the Chushka spit just take the P-251 highway. It starts from the Krasnodar Western Bypass, passes through the villages of Elizavetinskaya, Maryanskaya, Novomyshastovskaya and Ivanovskaya. Further, the highway goes to Slavyansk-on-Kuban, Anastavievskaya, Kurchanskaya, Temryuk, Peresyp and the village of Ilyich. In order to more accurately orient you, we suggest the route on the map:
Tourist notes
- Address: Ilyich settlement, Temryuk District, Krasnodar Territory, Russia.
- Coordinates: 45.352476, 36.696242.
In dozens of amateur and professional photos, the Chushka spit looks either like a meadow overgrown with tall greenery, or like a coarse sandy edge of water with small shells sticking out here and there. There is no water at all under the grass, so those who came here for the first time should be careful. In conclusion, as usual, we offer a short overview of the described place, pleasant viewing!
Spit between the black and azov seas on the map
What is a geographic map
A geographic map is an image of the Earth's surface with a grid and legend, the proportions of which directly depend on the scale. A geography map is a landmark by which you can identify the location of that, the yoke of an array, an object, or the place of stay of a person. They are irreplaceable assistants for geologists, tourists, pilots and military personnel, whose professions are directly related to travel, long-distance travel.
Types of cards
Conditionally split geographic Maps possible in 4 types:
- by the coverage of the territory and these are maps of continents, countries;
- according to the intended purpose and it is - tourist, educational, road, navigation, scientific and reference, technical, tourist maps;
- by content - thematic, general geographic, general political maps;
- in scale - small-scale, medium-scale and large-scale maps.
Each of the cards is dedicated to a theme, the thematic reflects the islands, seas, vegetation, settlements, weather, soil, taking into account the coverage of the territory. A map can only represent drawn countries, continents or states separately on a certain scale. Taking into account how much that territory is reduced, the scale of the map is 1x1000,1500, which means a decrease in the distance by 20,000 times. Of course, it's easy to guess that the larger the scale, the more detailed the map is. And yet, individual parts of the earth's surface on the map are distorted, in contrast to the globe, which is able to convey the appearance of the surface without changes. The earth is spherical and distortions occur, such as area, angles, length of objects.
The Tuzla Spit (Tuzla Spit) is a spit in the Kerch Strait on the Taman Peninsula, near the village of Taman. There are many interesting geographic sites... There are place names such as Tuzla island, Tuzla lake, Tuzla cape.
The Tuzla Spit was formed as a result of the unification of small islands and shoals, under the constant influence of the ebb and flow of the Black and Azov Seas. Due to this, there was a gradual deposition of sand and its accumulation on a long section of the formed spit. As a result of human economic activity, Tuzla Island was formed, which was part of the spit back in the 20s of the last century. The island was part of Ukraine until 2014. In 2003, during the border conflict between the Russian Federation and the Ukrainian Republic, the spit was strengthened and lengthened. It was planned to restore the eroded area between the skeleton and the spit. But as a result of the conflict, actions for further construction and strengthening of the banks ended. Its length is about 4 km.
The Tuzla Spit is a unique place on one side washed by the Black Sea and on the other by the waters of the Taman Bay belonging to the Sea of Azov, from it you can also see the Tuzla Island and Cape Tuzla itself, the Kerch Strait, the Crimean Peninsula, the Taman Upland, anchorage of large-tonnage sea vessels, a panorama of the spit opens Chushka and port Kavkaz. This place active fishing and rest. In summer, there was a camping site and a beach on the spit. I advise you to take warm clothes with you, as the place is open and the wind can be very, very cold.
IN this moment on the spit are construction works... A bridge is already being erected between the spit and the Tuzla island. Soon, very soon, the main bridge will be built.
Taman is the tip of the Western Caucasus, swept by the gentle breezes of two seas - the Black and Azov. It is logical that the peninsula is a "sea gate" connecting the Kuban with the Crimea. In addition to the ferry crossing, a large bridge crossing with different branches will also play the role of crossing. One of them starts from a long sandbank called Tuzlinskaya Spit. However, the bridge was slightly bypassed so that the construction site would not ruin the natural and even historical reserve that had formed here, while most of Tuzla would still be under its piles.
Where is Tuzla Spit located?
The island and several dams with this name are located on a conventional line connecting Pavlovskaya Bay of Kerch with a lake located near the westernmost base of the former state farm "Yuzhny". Administratively, it belongs to the Tamansky rural settlement of the Temryuk district.
On the map of the Kuban, the Tuzla spit is located as follows:
Historical facts
Like the rest of the shoals, the longest of them is the result of the activity of tides, storms and strong winds, as well as the rampage of local mud volcanoes. Until a certain time, the geographical object was an elongated peninsula, since it did not lose contact with the continent. And at the end of the last century, this corner became the subject of border claims between Russia and Ukraine.
It is worth starting a conversation about the Tuzla Spit with an excursion into antiquity. During the existence of the Bosporus Kingdom and the Byzantine Empire, this place was not without reason called Akme (in Greek - "edge"). Later, when nomads appeared here, the location received a different name, because in all Turkic languages “tuz” means “flat”. The fact is that from the early medieval periods the ledge was an absolutely flat surface, consisting of sand and silt deposits. All this attracted fishermen to him, who arranged their encampments on the shores of the spit. Here boats and nets were dried, the fishermen themselves warmed themselves before the fires. Gulls and cormorants lived in large numbers.
Tuzla was gradually separated from the Taman Peninsula during the tornadoes of the 1920s. It was not possible to restore the connection - nature has always resisted this. Since then, this isolated corner of the Russian Black Sea region has taken on a life of its own. The landscape has preserved hundreds of species of flora and fauna that have already disappeared in other areas of the planet.
Rest on the Tuzla Spit
The sandy beach is made up of fabulous sandy beaches. They can be called the main destination for excursions starting south of Cozy. Many consider this very coastal strip to be the watershed of the Black Sea and Azov. The part of it that belonged to Ukraine was called in the newspapers “the most popular beach in Kerch”.
So the 6.5-kilometer ledge in question is essentially an island - even a few islets. Some of them were recently connected with artificial dams - for the convenience of installing support structures for the bridge crossing.
Most of the photos show the Tuzla spit taken from the side of the main Taman "fishing ground". A conversation about the lake of the same name is the estuary waters overgrown with reeds and reeds, where not only river predators, but also delicious pelengas and mullet, breed at a fabulous pace. Now, however, the noise of the main construction site scares the fish. Fans of "water hunting" bypass this tract.
Today, only areas south of Tuzla are available for swimming - as sandy beaches and comfortable rocky slopes of artificial embankments. This refers to the coastal edge not far from the remains of the said state farm base. By the way, the finished sections of the bridge can be seen well from here. The Tuzla spit itself is a strategic - that is, well-protected - site along its entire length.
However, you can view this miracle of nature from the sea - simply by paying money to the boatman. If you are planning something like a picnic here, then you need to buy drinks and food in Taman. There is nothing for many kilometers around - except for vineyards and trailers for builders invited here from all over the world.
How to get there (drive through)?
The best route here is a small road starting at the end of Karl Marx Street. Minibuses and buses do not run here. The path from the last village farm to the water is 7 km. He walks through the vineyards. On the map, the path looks like this:
Tourist notes
- Address: Temryuk District, Krasnodar Territory, RF.
- GPS coordinates: 45.237526, 36.599445.
Analyzing the above information, it is not difficult to understand that an amazing vacation is possible here, associated primarily with fishing. In conversations about the best bathing places in Temryuk district, the Tuzla spit also appears. Photos of satisfied holidaymakers just flooded the Internet. Vacationers who come here, in addition to resort relaxation and fish bite, want to get shots against the background of the supporting structures of the first and only bridge connecting the resort Caucasus and Crimea. In conclusion, watch the video about the island spit.
Spit Tuzla is located near the village of Taman in the Temryuk district of the Krasnodar Territory. It is a well-known and popular holiday destination for both tourists and locals.
Spit Tuzla on the map of Krasnodar Territory
After looking at the photos of the Tuzla spit on the Internet, we decided to go to rest between the two seas. To get to the Tuzla spit by car, you need to drive through Temryuk to Taman. In Temryuk, by the way, you can buy a good one at the factory. When you reach Taman, look carefully at the signs. There will be signs to the scythe. The road to the Tuzla Spit, although unpaved, is quite flat and you can drive any car without difficulty.
On one side of the Tuzla Spit, the sea was muddy and gray, and on the other, dark blue. 
The Spit of Tuzla itself is made artificially. It protrudes in a narrow long strip right into the sea. Its length is about 4 kilometers. They say that the fish on the Tuzla Spit are visible and invisible. I myself did not catch, but there are a lot of fishermen on the spit, both from one side and the other.
There are also enough lovers of spearfishing and diving on the spit. Dolphins often come here, stingrays are found, or as they are also called sea cats, you can find shells - rapana, gobies, mullet, pelengas and flounder. I am telling you from the words of a local fisherman with whom we got into conversation.
Opposite the Tuzla spit, Ukraine is the Kerch Strait, after all. Mobile phones immediately start working in roaming mode and an SMS comes in, where they congratulate you on your arrival in Ukraine. 
The entry into the sea on most of the spit is not very good. Basically, stones near the coast, large and quite sharp. Putting up a tent is also problematic. There is a very narrow strip of land close to the coast. And stopping right on the road is both inconvenient and unsafe.
But if you drive almost to the very end of the Tuzla spit, there will be an already equipped beach. Here entry into the sea is normal and there is a place for tents. But if a strong wind is blowing, it is not very pleasant to stay on the spit. We did not risk it and left for the Taman Peninsula. We stopped in a wonderful place, a small lagoon, where there was almost no wind, and the sea and nature were amazing.
This is a photo of the Tuzla spit from the side of the sea. A long yellow stripe stretched far, far away.
