Sarych

Sarych (Ukrainian: Са́рич; Russian: Са́рыч; Crimean Tatar: Sarıç) is a headland (Russian: Мыс; translit: mys) located on shore of the Black Sea on the Crimean Peninsula.

The Sarych headland on the northern shore of the Black Sea.

About 5 kilometers from the Sarych headland is the resort town of Foros. The city of Sevastopol is located about 30 km away and Yalta about 40 km. The length from Sarych to the Kerempe headland of Black Sea shore in Turkey is 142 miles, making it the narrowest point of the Black Sea.

Ancient

It is mentioned by many ancient writers, which called it Kriou Metopon or Criu metopon (Ancient Greek: Κριοῦ μέτωπον), meaning Ram's forehead in Greek (ram = Κριοῦ and forehead = μέτωπον).[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]

Russia-Ukraine territorial dispute

A lighthouse is located on the headland, which from 2005, was the subject of a controversy between Ukraine and Russia. From August 3, 2005, the lighthouse is occupied by the Russian Army.[13]

Not paying attention to the ruling of the Government Court in Sevastopol on the subject of the return of 77 geographical objects to Ukraine (including the lighthouse on Sarych), Russian military officials referred to the fact that they only subordinate to the chief of the Russian Navy headquarters and no one else. The Ukrainian public activists state that Sarych is illegally occupied by the Russian Navy.[14] As a military object the territory around the Sarych headland is closed to trespassers with barbed wire with the Russian flag flying above Sarych.[15]

The issue has since become a small part of the broader 2014 Crimean crisis.

Battle of Cape Sarych
Main article: Battle of Cape Sarych

On 18 November 1914 the waters off Cape Sarych saw the encounter of a Russian and Turkish naval force. The latter consisted of the German battle-cruiser SMS Goeben and the light cruiser SMS Breslau. Both ships were formally purchased by the Ottoman Empire and renamed as Yavuz and Midilli, although they retained their German crews. The Russian force consisted of five pre-dreadnought battleships. During the fight only a few salvoes were exchanged. The forces inflicted minor damage upon each other, but the commanding German admiral Wilhelm Souchon broke off the action after Goeben took a hit in one of her 15 cm casemates. He had to be very careful in putting his ship at risk, as the Ottoman Empire didn't provide facilities for repairing a modern ship like the Goeben. So he had to keep her in a battleworthy state.[16]

References
  1. Pseudo Scymnus or Pausanias of Damascus, Circuit of the Earth, 953
  2. Pseudo Scylax, Periplous, 68
  3. Strabo, Geography, 2.5.22
  4. Strabo, Geography, 7.4.3
  5. Strabo, Geography, 11.2.14
  6. Strabo, Geography, 12.3.10
  7. Pomponius Mela, Chorographia, 2.3
  8. Marcianus, Epitome of Menippus' Periplus, 9
  9. Pliny the Elder, Natural History, 4.26.4
  10. Solinus, Polyhistor, 10.12
  11. Ptolemaeus, Geography, 3.6.2
  12. Ammianus Marcellinus, History, 22.8.20
  13. "The owner of the "sarych" lighthouse came back with a blank document to the President of Ukraine". CPCFPU (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on March 11, 2007. Retrieved February 24, 2007.
  14. "Access to Ukrainians is prohibited." Zakryta Zona (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on March 10, 2007. Retrieved February 24, 2007.
  15. ""Sarych" was surrounded with a barbed wire and had a Russian flag flying above it". Korrespondent (in Ukrainian). February 10, 2006. Archived from the original on October 18, 2007.
  16. Action off Cape Sarych, by Steve McLaughlin (retrieved December 15, 2014)
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