{"id":28782,"date":"2024-12-16T09:28:34","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T03:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=28782"},"modified":"2025-04-08T22:04:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T16:34:06","slug":"kerch-strait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/kerch-strait\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Facts about Kerch Strait"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Kerch Strait:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Kerch Strait is in <strong>Eastern Europe<\/strong> and is the only water body that <strong>connects the Black Sea with the Sea of Azov.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The Romans called it the Strait of Cimmerian Bosphorus. In Greek, it was known as the Cimmerian strait.<\/li>\n<li>It <strong>separates<\/strong> the <strong>Kerch Peninsula (part of the Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula<\/strong>) towards the west <strong>from the Taman Peninsula (Russia<\/strong>), lying in the east.<\/li>\n<li>It is about 3 km long, 15 km broad, and 18 metres deep.<\/li>\n<li>At its narrowest point, which lies at the northern end of the <strong>Chushka Landspit<\/strong>, it is only three to five kilometres wide.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>city of Kerch<\/strong> lies near the <strong>middle of the strait, on the Crimean side.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is an <strong>important global shipping route<\/strong>, providing passage from the Sea of Azov to the Black Sea.<\/li>\n<li>It has also been a <strong>key point of conflict between Russia and Ukraine after Mosco wannexed the peninsula from Ukraine in 2014.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Kerch Strait Bridge:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Also known as the <strong>Crimean Bridge,<\/strong> this infrastructure <strong>links mainland Russia with Crimea.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Completed in 2018<\/strong>, it includes a <strong>road and rail<\/strong> connection and is the <strong>longest bridge in Europe at 19 km.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is a symbol of Russia&#8217;s annexation of Crimea in 2014.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is a Strait?<\/h3>\n<p>A strait is a narrow waterway between two pieces of land that connects two large bodies of water. Well-known straits include the Bering Strait, which links the Arctic Ocean with the Bering Sea and separates the continents of Asia and North America at their closest point.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/world-news\/oil-spills-into-kerch-strait-as-russian-tanker-splits-apart-in-storm-7254181\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>Oil Spills Into Kerch Strait As Russian Tanker Splits Apart In Storm, 1 dead<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerch Strait is in Eastern Europe and is the only water body that connects the Black Sea with the Sea of Azov.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":28783,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28782","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}