Syvash | |||||||
Native Name: | Сиваш | ||||||
Settlement Type: | Village | ||||||
Subdivision Type: | Country | ||||||
Subdivision Name: | Ukraine | ||||||
Subdivision Type1: | Oblast | ||||||
Subdivision Name1: | Kherson Oblast | ||||||
Subdivision Type2: | Raion | ||||||
Subdivision Name2: | Henichesk Raion | ||||||
Pushpin Map: | Crimea # Ukraine Kherson Oblast # Ukraine | ||||||
Coordinates: | 45.9681°N 34.4881°W | ||||||
Population Total: | 257 | ||||||
Population As Of: | 2004 | ||||||
Pushpin Relief: | y | ||||||
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Syvash (Ukrainian: Сиваш) is a village at the southernmost point of the Chonhar Peninsula on the northern coast of the Syvash sea in the Henichesk Raion of Kherson Oblast, Ukraine. It has a population of 257.[1] It belongs to Henichesk urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.[2] The Novooleksiivka–Dzhankoi railway line runs over a bridge and embankment across the sea near the village.
Syvash was captured by Russian ground forces on the first day of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine phase of the Russo-Ukrainian War when they crossed the nearby border of the de facto Republic of Crimea.