Mys Opuk

Mys Opuk is a point in Maryevskoye sel’skoye poselenye, Kerch City Council, Crimea. Mys Opuk is situated nearby to the locality Kimmerikon, as well as near the area Urochyshche Tarasivka.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Opuk and Koyashskoye Salt Lake.

Opuk

Peak

Photo: Robert Niedźwiedzki, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Opuk is a mountain 183 meters high, located on Opuk cape, on the southern tip of the Kerch Peninsula, in Crimea, the highest point in the area. The Opuk massif was declared the Opuk Nature Reserve in 1998.

Koyashskoye Salt Lake

Photo: Kurgus, CC0.

Koyashskoye or Koiaske is a salt lake on the coast of the Kerch Peninsula in Crimea, Ukraine, separated from the Black Sea by a strip of land. It is 4 kilometers long, 2 kilometers wide and a meter deep. Koyashskoye Salt Lake is situated 4 km northwest of Mys Opuk.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kimmerikon and Yakovenkovo.

Kimmerikon

Locality

Kimmerikón was an ancient Greek city in Crimea, on the southern shore of the Kerch Peninsula, at the western slope of Opuk mountain, roughly 40 kilometres southwest of modern Kerch.