Great Adzhalyk Estuary
View of the estuary
Ukraine
Ukraine
Great Adzhalyk Estuary
LocationUkraine
Coordinates46°35′52″N 30°53′24″E / 46.59778°N 30.89000°E / 46.59778; 30.89000
TypeEstuary
Primary inflowsGreat Adzhalyk
Basin countriesUkraine
Max. length7.7 km (4.8 mi)
Max. width1.1 km (0.68 mi)
Surface area6.0 km2 (2.3 sq mi)
Average depth0.74 m (2 ft 5 in)
Max. depth1.2 m (3 ft 11 in)
Water volume4.5×10^6 m3 (160×10^6 cu ft)
Salinity12.1-13.4 ‰
SettlementsNova Dofinivka, Vapnyarka

Dofinivka Estuary, Great Adzhalyk Estuary, or Dofinivskyi Lyman (Ukrainian: Дофінівський лиман, Великий Аджалицький лиман, Russian: Дофиновский лиман, Большой Аджалыцкий лиман, Turkish: Büyük Adcalik liman), is a brackish water area in South Ukraine, in 12 km to east from Odesa. The water body is an estuary of small steppe river Great Adzhalyk, which inflows to the estuary in northern part. The length of the estuary is about 8 km, width about 1 km. The water body is very shallow, maximal depth is 1.2 m, but average less than 0.5 m.

It is separated from the Black Sea by the sandbar. It is artificially connected with the sea by a tube, about 1 m in diameter, since July 2001. The estuary is the shallowest water body in the north-western Black Sea.

References

  • Starushenko L.I., Bushuyev S.G. (2001) Prichernomorskiye limany Odeschiny i ih rybohoziaystvennoye znacheniye. Astroprint, Odesa, 151 pp. (in Russian)
  • North-western Black Sea: biology and ecology, Eds.: Y.P. Zaitsev, B.G. Aleksandrov, G.G. Minicheva, Naukova Dumka, Kyiv, 2006, 701 pp.

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