Kinburn Spit, Peninsula in southern Ukraine separating the Dnieper-Bug estuary from the Black Sea.
The Kinburn Spit stretches approximately forty kilometers into the Black Sea and consists of a narrow strip of land made up primarily of sandy dunes, beaches, and wetland areas that support over six hundred plant species and numerous migratory bird populations.
The peninsula was the site of the Battle of Kinburn on October seventeenth, eighteen fifty-five, during the Crimean War, when allied British, French, and Ottoman forces fought Russian troops to control access to Black Sea maritime routes and inland waterways.
The name Kinburn derives from the Ottoman Turkish term Kılburun meaning hair cape, referring to the narrow, hair-like shape of this landform that appeared on historical Ottoman maps from the fifteenth century and was later adapted into Cyrillic script.
Visitors can reach the peninsula by boat from nearby towns such as Ochakiv, although current military tensions and territorial restrictions in the area may limit access and affect the safety of travel to this protected ecological zone.
Since two thousand twenty-two, the peninsula has become a major military conflict point where Ukrainian forces conduct amphibious operations and raids to challenge Russian control of this strategic territory that monitors maritime routes and river estuaries.
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