Tuzla Island
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Native name: острів Тузла | |
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Strait of Kerch | |
Coordinates | 45°16′N 36°33′E / 45.267°N 36.550°E |
Area | 2.1 km2 (0.81 sq mi) |
Administration | |
Demographics | |
Population | 0 (2012) |
Tuzla Island (
The Strait of Kerch connects the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea. Administratively, Tuzla Island is part of the Kerch municipality[1] of eastern Crimea.
Infrastructure
Officially the island does not have a permanent settlement; however, it had a border station (the
The island was used during the construction of the Crimean Bridge, which opened in May 2018, connecting Crimea to the Taman Peninsula.
History
Tuzla Island was formed when the spit that continued the Taman peninsula suffered from massive erosion during a major storm in 1925.[2] In ancient times (2,500 years ago) the sea level was four meters below the present, which meant that at the site of modern Tuzla was quite an extensive area of land, which was part of the Taman Peninsula. Taman Peninsula itself at that time was part of the Kuban delta, and was separated from the rest of the land by river channels, which drained into the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea. Some historians identify Tuzla as the island of Alopeka, mentioned by ancient authors, located in the waters of Cimmerian Bosporus, and when the island periodically joined to the Asian shore of the Bosporus, the resulting braid[clarification needed] was used as the entrance to the passage through the narrowest part of the Cimmerian Bosporus, which is located between Alopekoy and the European shore of the Bosporus. Other historians and geologists reject such a hypothesis, believing that neither the island nor the Tuzla Spit existed in ancient times.
Before the Soviet Union entered World War II in 1941, it was part of the
2003 dispute
There was a territorial dispute over the ownership of the island between Ukraine and Russia in October 2003. The Russian authorities claimed the
The Russian side started to build a dam from the Taman Peninsula towards the island to revive the eroded peninsula without any preliminary consultations with the Ukrainian government authorities.[4] After the construction of the 3.8 km dam was suspended exactly at the Russian-Ukrainian border, the distance between the dam and the island had become 1,200 m (3,900 ft). The dam increased the intensity of the stream in the strait and the deterioration of the island. To prevent the deterioration, the government of Ukraine funded groundwork to deepen the bed of the strait. Ukraine refused to recognize the strait as inner waters of both countries until 2003.
On October 21, 2003, the
On October 30–31, 2003, talks started between Ukraine and Russia that led to suspension of the construction of the dam.
Following the 2003 conflict, the
The distance to the unfinished dam that stretches from the
Disputes about the right of passage were resolved by a 2003 bilateral agreement on cooperation in the use of the Sea of Azov and the Strait of Kerch,[5] which made these water bodies shared internal waters of both countries, but new tensions arose after the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea and Sevastopol.
Since 2014 Crimean crisis
Since Russia annexed Crimea in March 2014, the island has been transferred into the possession of Russia's central government by the newly established Crimean authorities and was used as a stepping stone for a new bridge linking Crimea to mainland Russia.
Gallery
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Tuzla island (center). View from Mount Mithridat (Kerch, Crimea).
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Kerch Strait in 2011 depicting an extensive landform that appears to stretch from the Russian coast towards the island
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Fishing settlement at Tuzla in 2007
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Tuzla island reinforcement structures (2007)
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Inner lakes at Tuzla (2007)
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Tuzla Spit on a 19th-century map of the Kuban region
See also
References
- ^ "Земли острова Тузла, через который проходит Крымский мост, переданы в собственность РФ". ТАСС. Retrieved 2019-04-04.
- ^ a b "Russian-Ukrainian dispute over Tuzla escalates". www.ukrweekly.com. October 26, 2003. Archived from the original on 2 September 2020. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
- ^ [https://books.google.dk/
- ^ Murphy, Kim (3 November 2003). "Russia-Ukraine Ties Founder on the Shore of Tiny Isle". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
- .
External links
- «Остров Тузла» — Севастополь «ОК», No. 1-2, 2000 г.
- "A tiny island in the news: the dispute over Tuzla". The Ukrainian Weekly. 2004-01-11. Archived from the original on May 20, 2006. Retrieved 2007-03-05.
- Ostriychuk, O. Historical-legal aspect of Tuzla island affiliation Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine.
- Conflict chronicle
- Conflict around Tuzla island: 10 years later. Podrobnosti. 29 September 2013