Chushka
Chushka Spit is a sandy spit in the northern part of the Strait of Kerch. It extends from Cape Achilleion and the town of Ilich to the south-west in the direction of the Black Sea for almost 18 kilometres.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality
- Description: sandbar in the Sea of Azov
- Also known as: “Chushka Spit” and “Chushka-Port”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kerch railway bridge.
Kerch railway bridge
Ruins
The Kerch railway bridge, also called the Kerch Bridge, was a short-lived Soviet Russian railway bridge across the Kerch Strait, which connects the Black Sea with the Sea of Azov.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chushka and Port Kavkaz.
Chushka
Village
Chushka is an abandoned village on the Chushka Spit in Zaporozhskoye Rural Settlement of Temryuksky District, in Krasnodar Krai, Russia. It is located beside Port Kavkaz, which includes the Kerch Strait ferry terminal, near the end of the spit.
Port Kavkaz
Locality
Photo: Solundir, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Port Kavkaz is a small harbour on the Chushka Spit in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, on the eastern side of Kerch Strait. It is adjacent to the village of Chushka, which is now largely deserted due to the toxic effects of the port.
Zhukovka
Suburb
Photo: Solundir, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Zhukovka is a suburb, which is situated 5 km northwest of Chushka.
Chushka
- Categories: peninsula, spit, and cape
- Location: Krasnodar Krai and Adygea, Southern Russia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Satellite Map
Discover Chushka from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Ukrainian—“Chushka” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Çuşka dili”
- Basque: “Txuxka lurmuturra”
- Cebuano: “Kosa Chushka”
- Cebuano: “Tschuschka Landzunge”
- Cebuano: “Коса Чушка”
- Chinese: “丘什卡沙嘴”
- Croatian: “Čuška prevlaka”
- Dutch: “Tsjoesjka”
- French: “Flèche de Tchouchka”
- German: “Tschuschka”
- Hebrew: “לשון חול צ’ושקה”
- Japanese: “Chushka砂洲”
- Japanese: “チュシュカ砂嘴”
- Japanese: “チュスカ砂州”
- Norwegian: “Tsjusjka”
- Polish: “Czuszka (półwysep)”
- Polish: “Czuszka”
- Portuguese: “Península de Chushka”
- Russian: “Коса Чушка”
- Russian: “Чушка”
- Serbian: “Чушка коса”
- Spanish: “punta Chushka”
- Spanish: “Punta Chushka”
- Turkish: “Çoçka Burnu”
- Ukrainian: “Чушка коса”
- Ukrainian: “Чушка”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Chushka”. Photo: insider51, CC BY-SA 3.0.