It is located beside Port Kavkaz, which includes the Kerch Strait ferry terminal, near the end of the spit.

After the Nazi Germans were driven from the Kuban bridgehead on the Taman Peninsula, the Soviets started building the Kerch railway bridge here in 1944, and the Chushka settlement was established for workers.

Drinking water was brought in tanks from the neighboring village of Ilich [ru], as none was available naturally on the spit.

A thousand workers remained, employed on construction of a port for the Kerch Strait ferry line, which was begun in the early 1950s and opened in 1954, and on the railway and in three fish factories.

Although residents were employed here, they were unable to remain living beside open areas of coal and sulphur, and all were relocated or compensated for loss of homes.