Byriuchyi Island

Together with the narrow northern part of the Fedotova Spit, Byriuchyi Island forms the Utljuk Lyman separating it from the sea from the east.

It has no direct land connection with the main territory of the Oblast — they are separated by the Utljuk Lyman.

The spit is of alluvial type, formed of sand and coquina (sandy coastal plain with occurring shell bars).

In the 1970s–1980s, on the area of 232 hectares, there were planted shelter forests, consisting of Elaeagnus angustifolia, Ulmus laevis, Robinia pseudoacacia and Fraxinus excelsior.

Participants on catamarans covered a distance of 1000 km from the Stryi River to Byriuchyi Island.

There is a state reserve on the territory of Byriuchyi Island (now it is part of the Azov-Syvash National Nature Park).