The current name Azov Sea was roughly in the middle of the thirteenth century - that name was derived from the ancient originated near the trade center - Azak, which was built on the site old Tanais, at one time destroyed the Golden Horde. Because of just such a geographical location - all the time inhabited this coast were replaced by people - the Sea of Azov in the recent past there has been a lot of names. The Scythians called him Kargulak - a place where a lot of fish, gave the name Meots Timirinda - Mother Sea, the ancient Greeks referred to him as to Meotida - the nurse, the ancient Romans revered as the Sea of Azov Palyus Meotis - Meotiyskoe swamp, for the Arabs it was - the Bahr-el -Azov, Venetians and Genoese, was named Mare Fanya, and Slavs - was given the name or blue Sourozh.
Azov Sea - the resort is not inferior to the Southern Coast of Crimea or Azure beaches of Greece. Holiday Hawaii on the spit in Fedotova Kirillovka a glaring example. Evaluate the conditions of rest and prices can be on link. You can also look online broadcast from a web camera installed on the beach.
his current form, the Sea of Azov is formed almost a million years ago during the Tertiary Period, at approximately the time when the land became the first man to live up to that time this territory was down praokeana. Then there were some geological changes in the ocean and the island began to appear, which today are the mountain ranges - the Crimea, the Caucasus, the Carpathians. Over time, these islands were connected to each other, thus creating a very large swimming pools, among which was the Caspian, Aral, Azov Sea and the whole of the southern Ukraine. But then, in the process gornoobrazovatelnyh change, this region became the outlines of which we see today - the bottom of the Azov Sea was higher than that formed its shallowness and all related features.
The size of the Sea of Azov is small - it is less than the Black or Caspian tenfold.At the greatest depth, which is fourteen feet, the record of the Azov Sea area, amounting almost forty thousand square kilometers. The greatest length of the Azov Sea - is 400 km from Arabatska arrows and to the mouth of the Don, the width has nearly two hundred miles. Azov Sea Kerch Strait due, and the Black Sea to the oceans, creating a constant water level, in contrast to the Aral and Caspian Seas, as they are surrounded on all sides by land. Salts in the water of the Azov Sea is much smaller than in Black, this is due to the relatively small depth and a constant supply of fresh water from the Don and Kuban rivers and rivulets of Azov. In addition to the fresh water rivers bring in the Sea of Azov is a lot of nutrients.