Laspi Bay, Protected cove in Sevastopol Municipality, Ukraine

Laspi Bay is a Black Sea cove between Cape Sarych and Cape Aiya, about 30 km from Sevastopol and 40 km from Yalta. Its shoreline runs 12 km, and the central basin measures up to 2.5 km across. The bay is framed by the Kokiya-Bel ridge (684.1 m), Mount Kush-Kaya (664.3 m) and Mount Kalanykh-Kaya (625 m).

People lived on the bay's shores since the Paleolithic; in 1828 Russian archaeologists found flint tools used for opening shells on the shore and seabed. In the Middle Ages a fortified Byzantine settlement stood here, of which half-overgrown foundation ruins and remains of a water conduit survive. In 1778 most of the local Crimean Greeks moved to the Donbas, and after the 1790 earthquake dried up the springs, the population left for the Khaitin valley. In 1792 the land became private property of Count N. S. Mordvinov.

The name Laspi comes from the Greek word for mud, láspe, linked to geothermal springs that once produced mineral clay along the shore. Until the late 18th century Crimean Greeks lived densely around the bay; most resettled in the Donbas in 1778. The vanished village of Laspi stood a few kilometres north, between the Shaburla and Machuk mountains.

The bay lies about 5 km from the "Laspi" stop on the Sevastopol–Yalta highway; a road leads from the stop down to the shore. The pebble beach at the head of the bay is about 0.5 km long and 10–15 m wide, with camping places and taps for drinking and technical water. In high season these places are often full.

The bay's name comes from the Greek word for mud, λάσπη, referring to the mineral clay once produced along the shore by geothermal springs. After the 1790 earthquake the springs dried up, the water became far clearer, and the site now draws divers to the underwater "Stone Garden", a maze of boulders and grottoes about 300 m from Cape Sarych at roughly ten metres depth.