Syvash, Kherson Oblast

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.

[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.

This article about a location in Kherson Oblast is a stub.

Syvash railway station
Railway line running onto the bridge to Crimea