Tendra Spit is a sandbar in the Black Sea and part of Kherson Oblast in Ukraine.

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Tendra Spit

Native name: Тендрівська коса
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Geography
Coordinates	46°14′24″N 31°37′48″E
Adjacent to	Black Sea, Gulf of Tendra
Area	12.89 km2 (4.98 sq mi)
Length	65 km (40.4 mi)
Width	1.8 km (1.12 mi)
Administration
Ukraine (occupied by Russia)
Oblast	Kherson Oblast
Raion	Skadovsk Raion
Demographics
Population	Uninhabited (2001)2001 Ukrainian Census
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The island serves as a separation of the Gulf of Tendra from the Black Sea and is located at the southern and western part of the bay. In the west the island has a spit Bili Kuchuhury which, stretching east through the Gulf of Tendra as a shoal, reaches the Yahorlyk Kut peninsula. Bili Kuchuhury has the Bili Kuchuhury Lighthouse.

Tendra Lighthouse is also on the island.

The Battle of Tendra took place on 8 and 9 September 1790.

The mutiny of men on board the Russian battleship Potemkin took place off Tendra Spit in June 1905.

During Russian invasion of Ukraine on the night of 28 February 2024 Ukrainian Special Operations Forces troops from 73rd Maritime Special Operations Center attempted to make a landing on the sandbar. They were ambushed by the Russian troops and sustained heavy casualties. According to Russian MOD out of 5 boats 4 were destroyed or sunk and up to 25 Ukrainian soldiers were killed. One Ukrainian soldier was captured.^[1][2][3][4]

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