Kerch Strait
The Kerch Strait 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 from the Taman Peninsula of Russia's Krasnodar Krai in the east.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Strait
- Description: strait connecting Azov and Black Seas
- Also known as: “Cimmerian Bosporus”, “Kerch-Yenikale Strait”, “Kerchenskiy Proliv”, “Kertch”, “Kertch Strait”, “Kimmerian Bosphorus”, “Kyerch’-Yenikale Strait”, “Strait of Kerch”, “Straits of Taman”, “Straits of Yenikale”, and “Yenikale”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Crimean Bridge.
Crimean Bridge
The Crimean Bridge, 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 the Kerch Strait between the Taman Peninsula of Krasnodar Krai in Russia and the Kerch Peninsula of Crimea. Crimean Bridge is situated 4 km south of Kerch Strait.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tuzla Spit and Kerch.
Tuzla Spit
Locality
Photo: Водник, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tuzla Spit or Kosa Tuzla was a long narrow peninsula or sandy spit in the eastern part of the Strait of Kerch which extended from Cape Tuzla to the north-west in the direction of the city Kerch for almost 11 kilometres. Tuzla Spit is situated 8 km south of Kerch Strait.
Kerch
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Kerch, is a city on the Kerch Peninsula of eastern Crimea. It was decorated by the Soviet Union as a "Hero City" of World War II.
Zhukovka
Suburb
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Zhukovka is a suburb, which is situated 9 km northeast of Kerch Strait.
Kerch Strait
- Category: body of water
- Location: Ukraine, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Adyghe to Wu Chinese—“Kerch Strait” goes by many names.
- Adyghe: “Хы ТӀуалэ”
- Arabic: “كيرتش”
- Arabic: “مضيق كيرتش”
- Arabic: “مضيق كيرش”
- Armenian: “Կերչի նեղուց”
- Azerbaijani: “Kerç boğazı”
- Bashkir: “Керчь боғаҙы”
- Basque: “Kertx-eko itsasartea”
- Basque: “Kertxeko itsasartea”
- Belarusian: “Керчанская пратока”
- Belarusian: “Керчанскі праліў”
- Bengali: “কের্চ প্রণালি”
- Bengali: “কের্চ প্রণালী”
- Bhojpuri: “कर्च के जलजोड़”
- Bhojpuri: “कर्च जलजोड़”
- Breton: “Strizh-mor Kertch”
- Bulgarian: “Керченски пролив”
- Bulgarian: “Керченски проток”
- Bulgarian: “Керченския проток”
- Catalan: “Bòsfor Cimmeri”
- Catalan: “Estret de Kerč”
- Catalan: “Estret de Kerch”
- Catalan: “estret de Kertx”
- Catalan: “Estret de Kertx”
- Cebuano: “Kerchenskiy Proliv”
- Chechen: “Керчан хидоькъе”
- Chinese: “Kerch Hái-kiap”
- Chinese: “刻赤海峡”
- Chinese: “刻赤海峽”
- Chuvash: “Керчь тинĕс пырĕ”
- Crimean Tatar: “Kerç boğazı”
- Crimean Tatar: “Keriç boğazı”
- Croatian: “Kerčka vrata”
- Croatian: “Kerčki prolaz”
- Czech: “Bospor Kimmerský”
- Czech: “Kerčská úžina”
- Czech: “Kerčský průliv”
- Danish: “Kertjstrædet”
- Dutch: “Cimmerische Bosporus”
- Dutch: “Straat van Kertsj”
- Esperanto: “Kerĉa markolo”
- Estonian: “Kertši väin”
- Finnish: “Kertshin salmi”
- Finnish: “Kertshinsalmi”
- Finnish: “Kertšin salmi”
- Finnish: “Kertšinsalmi”
- French: “Bosphore Cimmérien”
- French: “Detroit de Kerch”
- French: “Détroit de kerch”
- French: “détroit de Kertch”
- French: “Détroit de Kertch”
- Galician: “Estreito de Kerch”
- Georgian: “ქერჩის სრუტე”
- German: “Kimmerischer Bosporus”
- German: “Meerenge von Kertsch”
- German: “Strasse von Kertsch”
- German: “Straße von Kertsch”
- Greek: “Ισθμός του Κερχ”
- Greek: “Κιβέριος Βόσπορος”
- Greek: “Κιμμέριος Βόσπορος”
- Greek: “Πορθμός Κερτς”
- Greek: “Πορθμός του Κερτς”
- Hebrew: “מצר קרץ‘”
- Hebrew: “מצר קרץ’”
- Hungarian: “Kercsi-szoros”
- Icelandic: “Kertssund”
- Indonesian: “Selat Kerch”
- Indonesian: “Semenanjung Kerch”
- Ingush: “Кхерча форда оаса”
- Italian: “stretto di Kerč‘”
- Italian: “Stretto di Kerč’”
- Italian: “stretto di Kerch”
- Japanese: “ケルチ海峡”
- Kazakh: “Керіш бұғазы”
- Kazakh: “Керчь бұғазы”
- Korean: “케르치 해협”
- Kurdish: “Tengava Kerçê”
- Kurdish: “Tengava Kerş”
- Kurdish: “تەنگاڤا کەرش”
- Latin: “Bosporus Cimmerius”
- Latvian: “Kerčas šaurums”
- Lithuanian: “Kerčės sąsiauris”
- Macedonian: “Керчки Проток”
- Malayalam: “കെർഷ് കടലിടുക്ക്”
- Manx: “Keyllys Kerch”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kerch Hái-kiap”
- Mingrelian: “ქერჩიშ საროტი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Det kimriske Bosporos”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kertsj-stredet”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kertsj-sundet”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kertsjstredet”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kertsjsundet”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kimriske Bosporos”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kertsjsundet”
- Norwegian: “Kertsjstredet”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Estrech de Kerch”
- Persian: “تنگه کرچ”
- Polish: “Bosfor Kimmeryjski”
- Polish: “Cieśnina Kerczeńska”
- Portuguese: “Bósforo Cimério”
- Portuguese: “Estreito de Kerch”
- Portuguese: “Estreito de Querche”
- Portuguese: “Yenikale”
- Romanian: “Strâmtoarea Cherci”
- Romanian: “Strâmtoarea Kerch”
- Romanian: “Strâmtoarea Kerci”
- Russian: “Kerch’-Yenikal’skiy Proliv”
- Russian: “Kerchenski Proliv”
- Russian: “Kerchenskiy Proliv”
- Russian: “Kerchinskiy Proliv”
- Russian: “Боспор Киммерийский”
- Russian: “Еникальский пролив”
- Russian: “Керченский пролив”
- Russian: “Керченский Пролив”
- Russian: “Киммерийский Босфор”
- Russian: “Таврический пролив”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Caolas Keriç”
- Serbian: “Керчки мореуз”
- Serbian: “Керчки пролаз”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kerčki prolaz”
- Slovak: “Kerčský prieliv”
- Slovenian: “Kerški preliv”
- Spanish: “Bosforo Cimerio”
- Spanish: “Bósforo Cimerio”
- Spanish: “Estrecho de Kerch”
- Spanish: “Strait of Kerch”
- Swedish: “Kertjsundet”
- Swedish: “Kimmeriska Bosporen”
- Swedish: “Yenikalesundet”
- Tatar: “Киреч бугазы”
- Thai: “ช่องแคบเคียร์ช”
- Turkish: “Kerç Boğazı”
- Ukrainian: “Kerchens’ka Protoka”
- Ukrainian: “Керченська протока”
- Ukrainian: “Керченська Протока”
- Ukrainian: “Кіммерійський Боспор”
- Urdu: “آبنائے کرچ”
- Uzbek: “Kerch bo‘g‘ozi”
- Uzbek: “Kerch Bo‘g‘ozi”
- Uzbek: “Kerch bo’g’ozi”
- Uzbek: “Kerch Bo’g’ozi”
- Uzbek: “Kerch bo`g`ozi”
- Uzbek: “Kerch Bo`g`ozi”
- Uzbek: “Kerch boʻgʻozi”
- Uzbek: “Kerch Boʻgʻozi”
- Venetian: “Streto de Kerč”
- Venetian: “Streto de Kerch”
- Vietnamese: “Eo biển Kerch”
- Vlaams: “Stroate van Kertsj”
- Waray (Philippines): “Estrecho han Kerch”
- Waray (Philippines): “Sulang han Kerch”
- Western Frisian: “Strjitte fan Kertsj”
- Western Panjabi: “آبنائے کرچ”
- Wu Chinese: “刻赤海峡”
- “कर्च के जलजोड़”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Voykovo and Opasnoye.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Kerch-Yenikale Canal and Mys Zmiinyi.
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