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The Bug estuary (Ukrainian: Бузький лиман, romanized: Buz'kyi lyman) is an estuary of the Southern Bug. It is 82 kilometres (51 mi) long and up to 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) wide. Together with the Dnieper estuary it makes the Dnieper–Bug estuary on the northern coast of the Black Sea. The city of Mykolaiv is located on the Bug estuary.
Today, the functioning of the Dnieper-Bug Canal, which is to become part of the E40, provokes significant hydrological problems. The weak link of the Dnieper-Bug water system is the uneven distribution of water resources throughout the year on the watershed (Dnieper-Bug): a large amount in the spring and a shortage in the low-water period.
The Dnieper is an important navigable waterway for the economy of Ukraine and is connected by the Dnieper–Bug Canal to other waterways in Europe. During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine , certain segments of the river were made part of the defensive lines between territory controlled by the Russians and the Ukrainians.
The estuary was a naval battleground in the Russo-Turkish War of 1787–1792.A key event in that war was the Siege of Ochakov, while naval battles – which involved the Russian Dnieper Flotilla, [1] John Paul Jones deep-water fleet [2] [3] and the Ottoman Navy – included the First Battle of the Liman on June 7, 1788 and the Second Battle of the Liman on June 16 and 17.
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The Kinburn Peninsula (Ukrainian: Кінбурнський півострів, romanized: Kinburnskyi pivostriv, Russian: Кинбурнский полуостров, romanized: Kinburnskiy poluostrov, Turkish: Kılburun) is a peninsula in Southern Ukraine, which separates the Dnieper–Bug estuary from the Black Sea.
It occupies the westernmost part of the Kinburn Peninsula, stretching west into the Black Sea between the Dnieper-Bug estuary to the north and the Yahorlyk Bay to the south. It is approximately 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) long, with a width of about 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) at its base, narrowing to about 100 metres (330 ft) in its western half.
Nassau-Siegen. The Dnieper Flotilla in the Russo-Turkish War of 1787–92 was commanded by Karl Heinrich von Nassau-Siegen.With 51 boats of various types – dubel boats, cossack boats, and others – the flotilla combined with a squadron of 13 [4] [5] seagoing warships of the Black Sea Fleet commanded by John Paul Jones for operations in the Liman (the Dnieper-Bug Estuary), part of the Siege ...