Inkerman

History

The area has been inhabited since ancient times. The cave monastery of St. Clement was founded near Inkerman in the 8th century by Byzantine icon-venerators fleeing persecution in their homeland. The monastery was closed during the Soviet era and several of its churches destroyed but is now in restoration and brought back into use. The city was called Kalamita () and was a medieval fortress built in the 8th-9th century on a strategic cliff overlooking the estuary and later expanded in the 14th century. In 1475 Kalamita, along with the rest of the Principality of Theodoro, was taken by the Turks, and Kalamita would be renamed Inkerman. After the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca in 1774 the fortress was abandoned and fell into ruin, but a small settlement at the base of the cliff remained. Martin Bronevski who visited Inkerman in 1578 saw several Greek inscriptions. The town became the centre of worldwide attention in 1854 during the Crimean War, when Inkerman was the scene of the Battle of Inkerman and the Battle of Chernaya River, both victorious for the French and the British troops. During the Soviet times, a large underground ammunition warehouse of the Black Sea Fleet was situated under rocky cliffs in the Inkerman area. The storage was abandoned in the 1970s after an explosion that damaged the facility but did not detonate all its stockpiles. However, no efforts to secure the site were made until the 1990s when local residents began salvaging explosives which led to a number of deaths. Ukrainian Army engineer corps started extracting and decommissioning outdated ammunition in 2000 under a special government program. Inkerman has since largely returned to its pre-war obscurity, serving as a suburb of Sevastopol linked to the downtown core by commuter ferries. One of…

Most-observed species

• Double-crested Cormorant

  Phalacrocorax auritus (Lesson, 1831) · Aves
  570
• Ring-billed Gull

  Larus delawarensis Ord, 1815 · Aves
  470
• American Crow

  Corvus brachyrhynchos C.L.Brehm, 1822 · Aves
  462
• Great Black-backed Gull

  Larus marinus Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  444
• Northern Gannet

  Morus bassanus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  439
• Great Blue/Cocoi Heron

  Ardea herodias Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  432
• American herring gull, Smithsonian Gull

  Larus smithsonianus Coues, 1862 · Aves
  431
• Osprey

  Pandion haliaetus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  341

Most recent

• M 3.1 — 2026-07-31
  16 km SSE of Miramichi, Canada
• M 2.8 — 2022-11-22
  14 km NNW of Miramichi, Canada
• M 3.1 — 2016-11-01
  New Brunswick, Canada
• M 2.8 — 2010-08-02
  18 km NNW of Bathurst, Canada