The body of water by this name is separated from the "putrid sea" of Sivash by the giant sandbar of Arabat.  
Peter the Great captured the city of this name from the Crimean Tatars after building a fleet at Voronezh. Formerly the Greek and Genoese trading colony of Tana, its port was replaced by Rostov after the harbor became clogged with silt. The body of water by this name is separated from the "putrid sea" of Sivash by the giant sandbar of Arabat.  The Taganrog Gulf in the northeast is shallow and almost entirely fresh, a result of the inflow from the Berda, Yeya, Mius, Kuban, and Don rivers. FTP, name this sea connected by the Kerch Strait to its much larger neighbor, the Black Sea.
Peter the Great captured the city of this name from the Crimean Tatars after building a fleet at Voronezh.
the Sea of Azov