Prymorskyi

Prymorskyj (Ukrainian Приморський; Russian Приморский / Primorsky, Crimean Tatar Hafuz ) is an urban-type settlement of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea in Ukraine, with about 15,000 inhabitants ( 2012).

Geography

Prymorskyj situated on the Black Sea in the south of the Crimean peninsula at the transition to Kerch Peninsula on the highway M-17 (E 97 ) and belongs administratively to 14 km distant city of Feodosia.

History

Today's settlement was founded in 1938 as a construction and shipyard workers settlement near a village called Hafuz and was first called Juschnaja Tochka ( Южная Точка, "Southern Point"). 1952, when they finally got the status of an urban-type settlement, the town was renamed to its present name.

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