Yeysk Spit Kosa Yeyskaya | |
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.jpg) Protective stone pier at the end of the Yeysk Spit | |
  Yeysk Spit  Yeysk Spit | |
| Coordinates:46°14′11″N38°15′56″E / 46.23639°N 38.26556°E /46.23639; 38.26556 | |
| Location | Krasnodar Krai,Russia |
Yeysk Spit orKosa Yeyskaya (Russian:Ейская коса)[1][2] is an alluvial sandy spit in theSea of Azov, part of theYeysk Peninsula. The central resort area of the city ofYeysk.[3] The length of the sand spit is about 3 km, but before the 1914 storm, it reached 9 km.[4]
On 13 March 1914 a strong hurricane broke out, part of the spit was washed away, its stem was cut away and it turned into an island.
