Berdiansk Spit

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Berdiansk Spit

 

a sandy strip along the northern shores of the Sea of Azov, near the city of Berdiansk. The spit, about 20 km long, ends in a shoal reaching far out to sea. The western banks of the Berdiansk spit are indented by small inlets.

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