Tuzla Island

This article is about the island. For other uses, see Tuzla (disambiguation).

Tuzla island

Native name: острів Тузла
Landsat satellite photo of the Strait of Kerch with the Kosa Tuzla Island in the middle.
Geography
Location	Strait of Kerch
Coordinates	45°16′N 36°33′E
Area	3.5 km2 (1.35 sq mi)
Country
Ukraine
Demographics
Population	0 (as of 2010)

Tuzla Island (Ukrainian and Russian: Тузла; Crimean Tatar: Tuzla) is a sandy islet in a form of a spit located in the middle of the Strait of Kerch between the Kerch Peninsula in the west and the Taman Peninsula in the east.

Tuzla island (center). View from Mount Mithridat (Kerch, Ukraine).

Conflict

There was a territorial dispute over the ownership of the island between Ukraine and Russia in October 2003. The Russian authorities were claiming it as a spit that is part of the continental Russia and only the continental Crimea peninsula was transferred to Ukraine in 1954.^{[citation needed]}

History

It was formed when the spit that continued the Taman peninsula suffered from a massive erosion during a major storm in 1925. Just before the Soviet Union entered World War II on January 7, 1941, it was transferred to the Crimean Oblast which in its turn on February 19, 1954, became a part of the Ukrainian SSR.

See also

• List of islands of Ukraine

External links

• «Остров Тузла» — Севастополь «ОК», № 1-2, 2000 г.
• Russia-Ukraine Will Resume Talks on Maritime Delimitation in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov/Kerch Strait in June 2009 of 22 January 2009 and Ukraine May Refer Maritime Border Row with Russia to UN Court of 4 February 2009
• "A tiny island in the news: the dispute over Tuzla". The Ukrainian Weekly. 2004-01-11. http://www.ukrweekly.com/Archive/2004/020413.shtml. Retrieved 2007-03-05.