Category: Society

Crimean Tartars, a factor in the fate of the Peninsula

Crimean Tartars, a factor in the fate of the Peninsula

  Despite all the ethnic diversity of the Peninsula there has always been one people, the Crimean Tartars. In 1944 about 200,000 of them were expelled by Stalin and relocated in Central Asia republics, mostly Uzbekistan. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union Crimean Tartars have been returning home in large numbers. Three waves of […]

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Population of Crimea

Population of Crimea

Crimean Tartar Dancers in a traditional dance.   According to the latest census in 2001 the population of Crimea was 2,024,056 and the population of Sevastopol 377,153 which brings the total population of the Crimean Peninsula to 2,401,209. The estimated 2013 population for the peninsula is 1,967,119 inhabitants. The Crimean population has been consistently decreasing […]

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