Sovietskyi

Sowjetskyj (Ukrainian Совєтський; Russian Советский / Sovetsky, Crimean Tatar içki ) is an urban-type settlement and the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons in the east of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Ukraine with a population of 10,000 (2012 ).

Geography

Sowjetskyj is located on the North Crimean canal and the Bijuk - Karasu ( Біюк - Карасу ), a 102 km long tributary of the Salhyr ( Салгир ), the largest river in the Crimea peninsula. At the settlement along the trunk road running and there is a station on the railway line from Dschankoj to Kerch. The distance to Simferopol, capital city of south-west to the Crimea, is 106 km, and the south-east location Theodosia is 66 km away.

History

The first mention of Itschki (Ukrainian Ічкі ), the former name of the village comes from 1798, which was inhabited at that time by 41 people. Since 1892, the town has a railway station and since 1941 the town has the status of an urban-type settlement.

On November 2, 1941 Itschki was occupied by troops of the Wehrmacht and freed on 14 April 1944 by Red Army troops. In connection with the deportation of the Crimean Tatar population, the settlement was renamed Sowjetskyj 1944.

Demographics

Source: 1798; 1959-2012;

Rajon

Sowjetskyj is the administrative seat of the homonymous Rajons. The Rajon Sowjetskyj located to the east of the Crimean peninsula, and is bordered to the north by the coast of the Sywasch, a sea of ​​Azov upstream bay system, and on the south by the foothills of the Crimean mountains. It has 34,300 inhabitants and an area of 1079 km ². The population density is 32 inhabitants per km ².