The Black Sea is one of the most beautiful places in our country, it is unique and has its own interesting features.
The Black Sea is located in the south of the European part of Russia. Next to him are chains of the Caucasus Mountains.
Black Sea on the map bordered by severalcountries. These are Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey. The Black Sea area crosses the border between Europe and Asia. In the outlines of the sea you can see how deeply the Crimean peninsula crashes into it in the north. It connects with the small Azov Sea due to the Kerch Strait.
The Black Sea area is large:it is estimated that it is equal to 422 thousand square kilometers. This value is approximate, in some sources other numbers are indicated. The area of the Black Sea in square meters. km - 436400 (according to other data). The maximum depth is 2210 meters, and the average - 1240.
The sea is in an isolated hollowformed between South-Eastern Europe and the peninsula of Asia Minor. The Black Sea area is divided into two parts by a small uplift, of which the Crimea peninsula is a part. The north-western part has a wide strip of shelf. The coast of Turkey and Georgia is more indented by ravines and canyons. The great depths of these shores begin much closer than in the north. The length of the Black Sea coastline is 4077 kilometers. The sea is a bit like an oval with a length of 1148 kilometers, a width of 615.
There are few bays and almost no islands.This is due to the fact that the water level is constantly rising. Scientists have calculated that every 100 years, the Black Sea area grows by 25 centimeters. It would seem that the speed is quite small, but the sea has already managed to swallow some cities.
The Russian coast abounds in variousresorts. There are cities here, the largest of them are Sochi, Gelendzhik, Novorossiysk, Anapa. Recently, the Russian began to include the city on the Black Sea, located in the Crimea (Kerch and Sevastopol).
Sochi is the warmest region on the Black Sea in Russia. There is a lot of sun, very humid and subtropical vegetation.
In Sevastopol, the ancient ancient city of Chersonese is well preserved. Many monuments dedicated to the Great Victory.
The Black Sea on the map seems far from the oceans,it belongs to the internal, but belongs to the Atlantic. To swim to it from here, you need to go a very long way: from the Black Sea through the Bosphorus to go to Marmara, then through the Dardanelles to get to the Aegean and Mediterranean, and only after that you can get into the Atlantic Ocean via Gibraltar.
The climate is continental.Its features are associated with the internal position of the sea. The shores of the Crimea and the Caucasus are protected from the penetration of cold northerly winds, therefore the climate is milder, Mediterranean.
In the sea there is a wide variety of algae.These are brown, green, red and others, and there are 270 species in total. Also there can be found about 600 species of phytoplankton. In the water, there also lives the so-called night light - an algae that contains phosphorus.
Фауна Черного моря не сравнится с животным миром Mediterranean. 2500 species inhabit here, when in the Mediterranean - 9000. Causes of the poor animal world: hydrogen sulfide at great depths, colder water and a large range of salinity. Therefore, the Black Sea is only for unpretentious animals that live in shallow depths. At the bottom live mussels, oysters, pectin, rapana mollusk.
The water in the Black Sea is salty, with bittersmack This results from the fact that besides sodium chloride magnesium chloride and sulfate is a part. In addition, the water contains 60 chemical elements.
Most of the total volume is hydrogen sulfide. As a rule, it is contained in water at great depths (more than 150 meters).
The Black Sea is called so by many nations,despite the countless number of its shades in different weather, from dark green to light blue. The ancient Greeks called him Pont Aksinsky, which translated means "inconceivable" or "black." There were difficulties with navigation, and the banks were inhabited by hostile aborigines. Colonists here were met with adverse weather events, such as fogs and a storm. When the Greeks finally mastered this sea, it became known to them as Pont Evksinsky, that is, “hospitable”.
In the annals of ancient Russia, the sea is called the Russian or sometimes Scythian. In some sources you can find information that the sea used to be called not Black, but Chermny, that is, beautiful.
The Turks called this the Karadengiz Sea - “the inhospitable”. Probably for the same reason as the Greeks.
