Sevastopol Bay ( Ukrainian : Севастопольська бухта ; Russian : Севастопольская бухта ) is a city harbor that includes a series of smaller bays carved out its shores. The bay of Sevastopol splits the city of Sevastopol into the Southern side and the Northern side. It serves as an extension of the Chorna River and stretches for 7.5 km (4.7 mi) which is the longest of them all.
4-548: The bay of Sevastopol stretches from the open sea eastward to the Inkerman Cave Monastery at the end, narrowing down and finishing at the mouth of the Chorna River. The bay forms the seaward approach to the city. Covering a large expanse of water, the harbor serves as a comfortable anchorage for a fleet. From the beginning of the 20th century it housed cruisers and ironclads . The number of piers along
8-612: Is a cave monastery in a cliff rising near the mouth of the Black River , in the city of Inkerman , de facto administered as part of the sea port of Sevastopol but de jure belonging to the Autonomous Republic of Crimea . It was founded in 1850 on the site of a medieval Byzantine monastery where the relics of St. Clement were supposedly kept before their removal to San Clemente by Saints Cyril and Methodius . The early Christians are supposed to have kept
12-439: The relics in a grotto which could be visited only on the anniversary of his death. William Rubruck described it as a church "built by the hands of angels". The Byzantine monastery, probably founded in the 8th century by icon-venerators fleeing persecution in their homeland, had eight chapels of several storeys and an inn accessed by a stairway. The caves of Inkerman were surveyed by Peter Simon Pallas in 1793 and looted by
16-490: The shores of the harbor far exceeds the number of bays. The bay serves as a home to a commercial port as well as a naval base. Just outside of Sevastopol Bay is located a fishing port. This article about a location in Crimea is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Inkerman Cave Monastery The Inkerman Monastery of St. Clement ( Russian : Инкерма́нский Свя́то-Климе́нтовский пеще́рный монасты́рь )
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