Chornomorske

Chornomorske (Ukrainian Чорноморське - to 1944 Акмечит / Akmetschyt; Russian Черноморское / Tschernomorskoje, Crimean Tatar Aqmeçit ) is an urban-type settlement in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. It lies in the west of the peninsula, 140 kilometers northeast of Simferopol in a bay on the Black Sea and is the administrative center of Rajons Chornomorske.

In the area of ​​present-day village built by the Greeks Kalos - Limen settlement was already in the 4th century BC. In the course of time was the Greek name of the name Akmesdschit Liman, of which the Crimean Tatar name Aqmeçit was derived. In the 20th century the city became a center of agriculture was, in 1944 it was renamed in Chornomorske / Tschernomorskoje (after the Russian name for " Black Sea" ), he is since 1957 an urban-type settlement.

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