In which former Soviet Republic is the Crimea found?
"Hromivka, Crimea Hromivka (; (Gromovka)) is a village in the Sudak Municipality of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, a territory recognized by a majority of countries as part of Ukraine and annexed by Russia as the Republic of Crimea. Previously, the settlement was known as the Shelen village (). Following the forced deportation of the Crimean Tatars in 1944, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR published a decree on May 18, 1948 renaming the settlement along with many others throughout Crimea from their native Crimean Tatar names to their current variants. Hromivka is located on Crimea's"
"Autonomous Republic of Crimea The Autonomous Republic of Crimea (, ""Avtonomna Respublika Krym""; , ""Avtonomnaya Respublika Krym""; , ""Къырым Мухтар Джумхуриети"", ""Ҡырым Мухтар Җумхуриети;"" Romanian: ""Republica Autonomă Crimeea""), an autonomous republic of Russia encompassing most of Crimea, was annexed by the Russian Federation in 2014. Crimea had previously been under Russian control from 1783 until 1954 when it was transferred, within the USSR, from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR. Later, following a referendum on 20 January 1991, it was upgraded to the status of an autonomous republic within the Ukrainian SSR. When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991"
"Republic of Crimea The Republic of Crimea (; , ""Respublika Krym"" ; , ""Respublika Krym""; , ""Qırım Cumhuriyeti"") is a federal subject of Russia that is located on the Crimean Peninsula. The capital city and largest city within the republic is Simferopol which is also the second largest city of Crimea, behind the federal city of Sevastopol. At the last census the republic had a population of In March 2014, following the takeover of Crimea by pro-Russian separatists and the Russian Armed Forces, an unconstitutional referendum was held on the issue of reunification with Russia, which official results and opinion"
"of the Russian Empire from 1783 to 1917, after which it enjoyed a few years of autonomy until it was made part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (which was a part of the Soviet Union) from 1921 to 1954 and then transferred to Soviet Ukraine (which also was a part of the Soviet Union) in 1954. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Crimea still remained part of Ukraine until February 2014. Russia declared Crimea to be part of the Russian Federation in March 2014, and effective administration commenced. The Russian regional status is not currently recognised by"
"Crimean Socialist Soviet Republic The Crimean Socialist Soviet Republic ( or Крымская Советская Социалистическая Республика; ) or the Soviet Socialist Republic of the Crimea was a state allied with Soviet Russia that existed in Crimea for several months in 1919 during the Russian Civil War. It was the second Bolshevik government in Crimea and its capital was Simferopol. In April 1919, the Bolsheviks invaded Crimea for the second time (the first was in March 1918 and led to the creation of the short-lived Taurida Soviet Socialist Republic). After the conquest of Crimea (with the exception of the Kerch Peninsula) by"
"in October 2013 in Sumy.) The Republic of Crimea, just as the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, is subdivided into a total of 25 regions: 14 raions (districts) and 11 city municipalities. Though the City of Sevastopol is located on the Crimean peninsula, it is administratively separately from the Republic of Crimea as a federal city. The capital of the Republic of Crimea is the City of Simferopol, located in the interior of the peninsula. The most recent election across Crimea was the Russian legislative election on 18 September, 2016. Turnout, at 49.1% was slightly ahead of that for Russia as"
"given back its pre-World War II status of Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic on February 12, 1991, by the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR. With effect from 6 May 1992, the Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was transformed into the ""Republic of Crimea"" within Ukraine. 21 September 1994 it was renamed to Autonomous Republic of Crimea by Verkhovna Rada. This name was used for Crimea (with the exception of the city of Sevastopol) in new Ukrainian Constitution of 1996. The status of Sevastopol, due to its strategic importance as the port of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, remained disputed between"
"Crimea Crimea (; ; , ""Krym""; ""Krym""; ; ; ) is a peninsula on the northern coast of the Black Sea in Eastern Europe that is almost completely surrounded by both the Black Sea and the smaller Sea of Azov to the northeast. It is located south of the Ukrainian region of Kherson, to which it is connected by the Isthmus of Perekop, and west of the Russian region of Kuban, from which it is separated by the Strait of Kerch though linked by the Crimean Bridge. The Arabat Spit is located to the northeast, a narrow strip of land"
"Crimean Oblast The Crimean Oblast (; ; ) was an oblast (province) of the former Russian SFSR (1945–1954) and Ukrainian SSR (1954–1991) within the Soviet Union. Its capital was the city of Simferopol. The Crimean Oblast replaced the Crimean ASSR on June 30, 1945. The oblast was transferred from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR on February 19, 1954. Sevastopol was a closed city due to its importance as the port of the Soviet Black Sea Fleet and was attached to the Crimean Oblast only in 1978. Following a referendum held on January 20, 1991, the Crimean Oblast was"
"of the Russian SFSR. It was transferred by Soviet Politburo as a gesture to mark the 300th anniversary of the Treaty of Pereyaslav. In 1991 the Crimea was granted autonomy. Its population mainly consists of Russians (58%), Ukrainians (24%) and Crimean Tatars (12%). The peninsula also houses the Russian Black Sea Fleet which is on the lease until 2042 and harbored in Sevastopol. Following a referendum held on March 16, 2014 Crimea seceded from Ukraine and joined Russia, a move declared illegal by most of the international community and Ukraine itself. The relationship between the United States and Puerto Rico"
"A number of Crimean-born athletes have been given permission to compete for Russia instead of Ukraine at future competitions, including Vera Rebrik, the European javelin champion. Due to Russia currently being suspended from all international athletic competitions Rebrik participates in tournaments as a ""neutral"" athlete. Crimea Crimea (; ; , ""Krym""; ""Krym""; ; ; ) is a peninsula on the northern coast of the Black Sea in Eastern Europe that is almost completely surrounded by both the Black Sea and the smaller Sea of Azov to the northeast. It is located south of the Ukrainian region of Kherson, to which"
"Crimea as a country shortly before concluding the aforementioned treaty of accession, which was approved by the Constitutional Court of Russia. Russia claimed the Republic of Crimea (country) as a federal district, the Crimean Federal District, on the grounds of historical control of the area and the local population's right to self-determination reflected in the annexation vote. On 28 July 2016 the Crimean Federal District was abolished and Crimea was included in the Southern Federal District. The Government of Ukraine did not recognize the Republic of Crimea's claim to sovereignty, nor the unification of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea with"
"Simferopol Simferopol (; ; , ; , ""Акъмесджит"") is a city on the Crimean peninsula which is, since the 2014 annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, the de facto capital city of the Republic of Crimea within the Russian Federation. De jure, it remains the capital city of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea within Ukraine. The status of Crimea is disputed between Russia and Ukraine as a result of the 2014 vote to join Russia, which was held during Russian military intervention, and the subsequent annexation. Simferopol is an important political, economic, and transport hub of the peninsula and"
"Crimea and Sevastopol as the 84th and 85th Federal Subjects of the Russian Federation, Ukraine's constitution continues to assert that sovereignty over Crimea belongs to the Ukrainian government with the Crimean head of state being the President of Ukraine, currently Petro Poroshenko. The 75-seat State Council of Crimea is the legislative branch of the Republic of Crimea. Elections are conducted under a system of mixed-member proportional representation, with 25 single-member constituencies and 50 part-list seats. At the 2014 Crimean parliamentary election, United Russia won 70 seats, including all 25 single-member constituencies, with the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia winning 5"
"that annexed Crimea to the Russian Federation. While the Russian Federation both claims and administers the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol as two of its federal subjects, Ukraine continues to assert that Crimea is an integral part of its territory. The Constitution of the Republic of Crimea is the basic law of the Republic of Crimea within the Russian Federation. It was ratified on 11 April 2014 and replaced the previous Constitution of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea that was repealed by the Crimean status referendum. While the Russian constitution was updated to list the Republic of"
"On March 18, 2014, the Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol after a contested referendum were annexed to the Russian Federation. Much of the international community and the Ukrainian government do not recognize Crimea's accession to Russia and consider Crimea an integral part of Ukraine. The Russian SFSR of the former Soviet Union included three types of ethnic constituent units, viz., in the order of decreasing ""autonomy"" level: Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republics (or simply autonomous republics), autonomous oblasts, and autonomous okrugs. After the dissolution of the USSR, each ""autonomous republic"" was succeeded by a republic with a similar name (or, in"
"government again until the formation of the South Russian Government by the Whites in February 1920. Crimean Socialist Soviet Republic The Crimean Socialist Soviet Republic ( or Крымская Советская Социалистическая Республика; ) or the Soviet Socialist Republic of the Crimea was a state allied with Soviet Russia that existed in Crimea for several months in 1919 during the Russian Civil War. It was the second Bolshevik government in Crimea and its capital was Simferopol. In April 1919, the Bolsheviks invaded Crimea for the second time (the first was in March 1918 and led to the creation of the short-lived Taurida"
"to their homeland until the last days of the Soviet Union. The Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was abolished on 30 June 1945 and transformed into the Crimean Oblast (province) of the Russian SFSR. On 19 February 1954, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR issued a decree on the transfer of the Crimean region of the RSFSR to the Ukrainian SSR. This Supreme Soviet Decree states that this transfer was motivated by ""the commonality of the economy, the proximity, and close economic and cultural relations between the Crimean region and the Ukrainian SSR"". In post-war years, Crimea"
"Oblast. In 1991 Crimea became an autonomous republic. Ukraine grandfathered the whole Soviet system of administrative division. Cities of republican significance were transformed into cities with special status. In 1992 Crimean abolished autonomous status and changed its name from ASSR into Republic of Crimea, starting a process of separation and integration with Russia. In 1998 Crimea transformed into the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. Due to the War in Donbass, the status of civil–military administrations was created in territories of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts where the respective local government units cannot exercise their constitutionally guaranteed powers. In 2015 a new administrative"
"March 2014 with 97% of voters choosing to leave Ukraine and join Russia, according to Crimean government results. For this purpose, the Autonomous Republic and Sevastopol joined together as a single united nation under the name of Republic of Crimea. This nation then was annexed by Russia where it was converted into a federal district under the name of Crimean Federal District. However, the annexation divided the Autonomous Republic and the city of Sevastopol once again into two separate entities: the Autonomous Republic became the Republic of Crimea as a Russian republic while Sevastopol became a Russian federal city. Regardless"
"Yalta Municipality Yalta City Municipality (; ; ), officially ""the territory governed by the Yalta city council"", also known as Greater Yalta () is one of the 25 regions of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, a territory recognized by a majority of countries as part of Ukraine and incorporated by Russia as the Republic of Crimea. It is a resort region, located at the southern shore of Crimea – one of the most famous recreational territories of the former Soviet Union. Population: Within the framework of administrative divisions of Russia, Yalta is, together with a number of urban and rural"
"Crimean Federal District The Crimean Federal District () was a federal district of Russia. It was established on March 21, 2014 after the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation. The federal district included both the Republic of Crimea and the federal city of Sevastopol, both recognized as part of Ukraine by most of the international community. Ukraine considers the area, along with the areas of Lugansk People's Republic and Donetsk People's Republic, as ""temporarily occupied territories"". Oleg Belaventsev was appointed the presidential envoy, and the administrative centre of the federal district was Simferopol. On 28 July 2016, the Crimean"
"declared their independence from Ukraine as a single united state under the name of ""Republic of Crimea"". These two entities (Crimea and Sevastopol) were then annexed by Russia, where the Crimean Autonomous Republic became the ""Republic of Crimea"" as a Russian republic and Sevastopol became a Russian federal city. However, Ukraine and the majority of the international community do not consider the merge, the independence, the referendum, nor the annexation legitimate and still consider both entities as parts of Ukraine. Despite international opinion however, the currency, tax and legal system are all operational under Russian jurisdiction. Ukraine has applied for"
"Politics of Crimea The politics of Crimea today is that of the Republic of Crimea on one hand, and that of the federal city of Sevastopol on the other, within the context of the largely unrecognised annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation in March 2014. The ousting of Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych during the 2014 Ukrainian revolution initiated a chain of events that culminated in a referendum in Crimea on whether it should rejoin Russia. Days after the official results revealed overwhelming support for the proposal, Russia signed a Treaty of Accession with the self-declared independent Republic of Crimea"
"Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation The Crimean peninsula was annexed from Ukraine by the Russian Federation in February–March 2014 and since then has been administered as two Russian federal subjects—the Republic of Crimea and the federal city of Sevastopol. The annexation was accompanied by a military intervention by Russia in Crimea that took place in the aftermath of the 2014 Ukrainian revolution and was part of wider unrest across southern and eastern Ukraine. On 22–23 February 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin convened an all-night meeting with security service chiefs to discuss the extrication of deposed Ukrainian President, Viktor"
"a whole which was only 47.8%. United Russia was the most supported political party in Crimea, achieving 72.8% of the vote. The latest parliamentary elections in Crimea were held in 2014. The referendum, held in 2014, concerned whether Crimea should declare independence and seek to join Russia. Politics of Crimea The politics of Crimea today is that of the Republic of Crimea on one hand, and that of the federal city of Sevastopol on the other, within the context of the largely unrecognised annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation in March 2014. The ousting of Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych"
"Republic of Crimea"", passed on 29 April 1992, ""Republic of Crimea is an ""autonomous"" part of Ukraine and independently decides on matters, which are delegated to it by the Constitution and laws of the Ukraine"" (art. 1). The Regional Supreme Council, on the contrary, insisted that ""Republic of Crimea is a legal democratic ""state"""", which ""has supremacy in respect to natural, material, cultural and spiritual heritage"" and ""exercises its sovereign rights and full power"" on its territory (art. 1 of the May 1992 Constitution), but also a ""part of the Ukraine and establishes relations in it on a basis of"
"in Georgia; Nagorno-Karabakh on the border between Azerbaijan and Armenia; Transnistria in land near to Moldova's eastern border with Ukraine; and Novorossiya (a confederation of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic, breakaway areas in Ukraine). The Republic of Crimea is also arguably part of this group of unrecognised states, as the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation remains unrecognized by a majority of UN member states and is contested by the government of Ukraine. Recognition of these rebel groups vary. In some instances such as Transnistria, no UN-member state has given its recognition, including Russia. In"
"later mentioned as Ukrainian territory in the Soviet Constitution and the Belavezha Accords between Ukraine and Russia. In 1994, a Russian nationalist administration took over in Crimea with the promise to return Crimea to Russia, although these plans were later shelved. After the overthrow of President Victor Yanukovych during the 2014 Ukrainian revolution, the territories of Sevastopol and Crimea were seized by the Russian Federation; integration was formalized following an unconstitutional referendum in which 96% of the Crimean population purportedly voted “Yes”, and the Crimean peninsula became part of Russia. This move was denounced by the new Ukrainian government and"
"of Crimea. From the beginning of 1997 the number of grave crimes was greatly decreased. During the period of 2011 – 2014 for almost three years Vyacheslav Pavlov was the prosecutor of Crimea when in March 2014 the troops of Russian Federation broke the borders of the peninsula and declared so-called referendum of self-determination of Crimea. On March 18, 2014 the so-called “Act of the joining of Crimea and Sevastopol to the Russian Federation” was signed in Kremlin. The Western countries do not accept Crimea annexation and they provide numerous sanctions against Russia. The 20th February 2014 was officially declared"
"Alushta Municipality Alushta City Municipality (, , ), officially ""the territory governed by the Alushta city council"", also known as Greater Alushta is one of the 25 regions of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, a territory recognized by a majority of countries as part of Ukraine and incorporated by Russia as the Republic of Crimea. Population: It is a resort region, located at the southern shore of Crimea - one of the most famous recreational territories of the former Soviet Union. Within the framework of administrative divisions of Russia, Alushta is, together with a number of urban and rural localities,"
"and 2014. Following the referendum, the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR passed the law ""On Restoration of the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialistic Republic"" on 12 February 1991. By this law it became an autonomous republic within Ukraine. 1991 Crimean sovereignty referendum A referendum on sovereignty was held in the Crimean Oblast of the Ukrainian SSR on 20 January 1991 two months before the 1991 All-Union referendum. Voters were asked whether they wanted to re-establish the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, which had been abolished in 1945. The proposal was approved by 94% of voters. The Crimean ASSR was originally"
"1945-49 after the deportation of Crimean Tatars and are now used only by the Crimean Tatar community are mentioned in brackets. Feodosia Municipality Feodosia City Municipality (, ""Feodosijśka miśkrada""; , ""Feodosijskij gorsovet""; ), officially ""the territory governed by the Feodosia city council"", is one of the 25 regions of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, a territory recognized by a majority of countries as part of Ukraine and incorporated by Russia as the Republic of Crimea. Population: It is a resort region, located in southeastern Crimea—one of the most popular recreational territories of the former Soviet Union. Besides its capital Feodosia,"