Kinburn Spit is a sandy spit located in the Ochakovsky district of the Nikolaev region. It occupies the extreme western part of the Kinburn Peninsula between the Dnieper-Bug Estuary and the Yagorlytsky Bay of the Black Sea. Length - about 40 km, width - 8-10 km. In the south of Ukraine, the entire Kinburn peninsula is often referred to as the “Kinburn Spit”.

The spit is part of the Black Sea Biosphere Reserve. Due to its location - on one side it is washed by sea water, on the other - by the fresh waters of the Dnieper - the Kinburn Spit has its own unique microclimate.

The spit is covered with lush herbal vegetation, pine and oak forests. In the eastern part it is swampy in some places. More than 500 species of plants grow on the spit, many of which are medicinal - chamomile, thyme, valerian, St.

A large number of salt and fresh lakes on the spit are nesting places for white herons, cranes and other bird species. Numerous gulls, terns, sandpipers, ducks nest on the spit. There are rich fishing grounds off the coast of the spit.
Opposite the Prognoev tract, 35 versts above the base of the Kinburn Spit, there is the Prognoevskaya palanka of the Zaporizhzhya Sich. Palanka played the role of a Cossack port. There was an advanced Zaporizhzhya post that monitored the movement of the Tatars in the Crimea and the Turks in Ochakovo and guarded all the ambassadors, salt industrialists, merchants who traveled through the southern outskirts to Ochakov, Prognoi and Crimea.
Until now, the remains of the Turkish fortress Kinburn, built in the 15th century, have been preserved on the spit. In 1736 the fortress was captured and destroyed by the Russian army. The Turks restored the fortress, but in 1774 it passed to the Russian Empire. In 1787, Suvorov, together with the 4,000th Russian corps, defeated a 5,000th Turkish landing force near the fortress. Kinburn's armament consisted of 62 guns, and the garrison had 1,400 soldiers. In October 1855, during the Crimean War, it was significantly damaged by artillery fire of the Anglo-French fleet, since then it has not been restored and has not been used as a military facility. Later, under the terms of the Paris peace deal, the fortress was dismantled and an artificial island of Battery (now Pervomaisky) was poured from its materials at the entrance to the Dnieper-Bug Estuary.