The Azov Sea attracts tourists not only with warm water and shallow depth. The pond has other attractions - famous mud volcanoes. That's about them will be discussed.
In general, a mud volcano is a geological formation in the form of a depression on the surface of the earth or an elevation in the form of a cone, from which periodically or constantly erupting mud masses and gases. Such volcanoes are found in the Crimea, the Arabat arrows, but most of them are from the Taman Peninsula of the Kuban.
Volcano Hephaestus, Sea of Azov
One of the most popular mud volcanoes of the Azov Sea is located in Golubitskaya, the village of Kuban. Mud volcano Gefest, or Rotten Mountain, rises on the Taman Peninsula , 5 km from the city of Temryuk, a modern resort. It was formed in the early 19th century on the site of a lake. It is known that the mud mass of the volcano is curative, including bromine, selenium and iodine. Near Hephaestus, there was a mud bath, but it was destroyed by another eruption. The Hephaestus volcano is only a few hundred meters from the sea and awakens from time to time.
Mud volcano of Tizdar, the Sea of Azov
Near the village For the homeland you can see the amazing volcano Tizdar, which is a crater filled to the brim with mud. The lake with a size of about 100 by 150 m and a depth of almost 1 meter is valuable for curative mud containing iodine, bromine and hydrogen sulphide. The volcano Tizdar from the Sea of Azov is located only 50 m. Dirt from the volcano is used for treatment in nearby sanatoriums. Many holidaymakers gladly take mud baths right in the crater.
Karabetova Sopka, Sea of Azov
Among the mud volcanoes of the Sea of Azov Karabetova hill is considered the largest active volcano on the Taman Peninsula. It represents an elevation, from the crater which periodically pours out fresh mud.
Jau-Tepe volcano, the Sea of Azov
Among the mud volcanoes in the Sea of Azov, Jau-Tepe, the largest volcano of the Kerch Peninsula in the Crimea, stands out, rising in the form of a sixty-meter hill among the steppes. The last eruption of the mud volcano occurred in 1942.
Volcanoes Bondarenkovo
On the Kerch Peninsula there is the village of Bondarenkovo, near which a whole field of Bulganak hills stretched, some of which are active. There are both cone-shaped volcanoes, and in the form of a lake: the volcano Pavlova, the volcano Vernadsky, the Oldenburg hillock and others. By the way, the distance to the sea from volcanoes is less than 500 m.