Chonhar Чонгар | |
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 Abandoned café "Chonhar", near the old road bridge | |
 Interactive map of Chonhar | |
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| Coordinates:46°01′51″N34°32′45″E / 46.03083°N 34.54583°E /46.03083; 34.54583 | |
| Country |  Ukraine |
| Oblast | Kherson Oblast |
| Raion | Henichesk Raion |
| Hromada | Henichesk urban hromada |
| Population (2001) | |
• Total | 1,431 |
Chonhar (Ukrainian:Чонгар), transliterated sometimes asChongar (Russian:Чонгар), is a village on theChonhar Peninsula, within the swampy region ofSyvash, inHenichesk Raion,Kherson Oblast. The village is a seat of the Chonhar rural community (silrada). It belongs toHenichesk urban hromada, one of thehromadas of Ukraine.[1] The village is just north ofChonhar Strait, which is part of the boundary between Kherson Oblast andCrimea.
The village is on the Chonhar Peninsula in Kherson Oblast. It is just north of Chonhar Strait, a shallow waterway that separates the peninsula and mainland Ukraine from the isthmus ofCrimea.Highway M18/E105 runs through the eastern end of the village and crosses a bridge over Chonhar Strait, parallel to an older, unused road bridge. The Chonhar bridge is one of three main hard surface routes to and from Crimea. TheNovooleksiivka–Dzhankoi railway line runs through the eastern end of the village, then on toSyvash village and over a bridge across the sea to Crimea.
On 27 February 2014, during the2014 Crimean crisis,Berkut (special police) of Crimea occupied the checkpoint near Chonhar and neighbouring territory.[2] AfterRussia annexed Crimea, the area became ade facto border patrolled by Berkut and Russian troops.[3][4] By 27 December 2014 Russian forces had fully withdrawn from the Chonhar peninsula.[4][5]
Chonhar was captured byRussian ground forces on the first day of theRussian Invasion of Ukraine phase of theRusso-Ukrainian War when they crossed into mainlandUkraine from alreadyRussian-occupied Crimea.
The Highway M18/E105 bridge over Chonhar Strait was damaged on 22 June 2023 in an apparent Ukrainian missile strike.[6]
As of the2001 Ukrainian census, Chonhar had a population of 1,431 inhabitants. The native language composition was as follows:
| percent | ||||
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| Ukrainian | 59.3% | |||
| Russian | 35.2% | |||
| Armenian | 4.5% | |||
| Belarusian | 0.3% | |||
| Moldovan | 0.2% | |||
| others | 0.5% | |||