Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
The Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of Crimea ( Crimean Tatar Qırım Muhtar Sotsialist Sovet Cumhuriyeti, officially Qrьm Avonomjalь Sotsialist Sovet Respublikasь; Russian Крымская Автономная Социалистическая Советская Республика / Krymskaja Awtonomnaja Sozialistitscheskaja Sovetskaya Respublika ) was on 18 October 1921 as Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic within the Crimean peninsula created.
Previously had already existed in the Crimea and in a northerly adjacent areas, the independent People's Republic of Crimea, a short-lived säkulär - Muslim state, which has managed to maintain its independence only from December 1917 to January 1918, before he was crushed by Soviet Russia.
The capital was Simferopol. The official languages were the Crimean Tatar language and the Russian language. On 5 December 1936, the Republic was renamed by the VIII Extra vulgarity Congress of Soviets of the USSR in the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
A significant part of its population were Crimean Tatars, who were deprived during the Second World War, their property and their civil rights were revoked. In 1944, after all, they were forcibly deported on the orders of Soviet dictator Stalin to Central Asia. Your constitutional rights were restored only in 1967. Many of them could not return home until the last days of the Soviet Union.
On June 30, 1945, the autonomous republic was introduced by Decree both the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR - published on May 26, 1946 - dissolved and transformed into the Crimean Oblast of the RSFSR. The oblast was incorporated in 1954 in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.
Following a referendum held on January 20, 1991, the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was re-established on 12 February 1991 by the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR and divided after the independence of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, which still exists today and the direct-controlled city of Sevastopol.