Заповедник ‘Опук’

Заповедник ‘Опук’ is in Kerch City Council, Crimea. Заповедник ‘Опук’ is situated nearby to the peak Opuk, as well as near the locality Kimmerikon.

Places of Interest Nearby

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, 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 3 km west of Заповедник ‘Опук’.

Kirkoyashskoe

Photo: Kosun, CC0.

Kirkoyashskoe is situated 3 km north of Заповедник ‘Опук’.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kimmerikon and Maryevka.

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.