6 records

Kerch Strait

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Geography / Ukraine / Kerch Strait

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Lighthouse

Burun Range Lights (Kerch Strait)

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Built as part of a broader deepening of the Kerch Strait's shipping channel (widened to 107 meters by 1901 an...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. The Burun range lights mark the second leg of the Kerch approach channel on the western shore of the Kerch Strait, Crimea. Open record

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Kamysh-Burun Range Lights

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. First built as temporary wooden towers in 1872 (Kamysh-Burun lit that November, Churubash in November as well...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. The Kamysh-Burun and Churubash lighthouses form a range guiding ships through the third bend of the Kerch-Yenikale Canal in the Kerch Strait. Open record

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Pavlovsky Range Lights

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. The first Pavlovsky lighthouse, lit in 1864 inside a fortress, suffered constant damage from the concussion o...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. The Pavlovsky range lights stand on Cape Pavlovsky south of Kerch, marking the channel through the Kerch Strait. Open record

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Takil Lighthouse (Takly, Taklynsky)

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Built in 1832-1833 as the second lighthouse in the Kerch Strait after Yenikale, the original fortress-like st...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Takil Lighthouse stands on Cape Takil (Takly), the western entrance point of the southern approach to the Kerch Strait. Open record

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Chushka Range Lights (Kerch Strait)

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This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. Completed in 1913, the paired towers on Chushka Spit were originally gray openwork iron structures (14.8 m fr...

This description is machine-translated and has not yet been reviewed. The Chushka range lights, the newest of the Kerch Strait's range lighthouses, mark the Azov approach leg of the Kerch-Yenikale Canal on Chushka Spit, Russia. Open record