Summary
Novofedorivka (Ukrainian: Новофедорівка; Russian: Новофёдоровка, romanized: Novofyodorovka; Crimean Tatar: Novofödorovka) is an urban-type settlement. It is located about 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) south of the regional centre of Saky, and about 70 kilometres (43 mi) north of Sevastopol.
Novofedorivka | |
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  Novofedorivka Location of Novofedorivka within Crimea | |
| Coordinates: 45°5′37″N 33°34′6″E / 45.09361°N 33.56833°E | |
| Country | Territory of Ukraine, occupied by Russia[1] |
| Region |  Crimeaa |
| District | Saky Municipality |
| Area | |
| • Total | 3.2 km2 (1.2 sq mi) |
| Population (2014) | |
| • Total | 6,584 |
| Time zone | UTC+3 (MSK, de facto) |
| Postal code | 96574 |
| Area code | +380 6563 |
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| a Autonomous Republic of Crimea (de jure) or the Republic of Crimea (de facto), depending on jurisdiction. | |
Population: 5,610 (2014 Census).[2]
History edit
Back in the 5th century BC there was an ancient Greek settlement on the site of Novofedorovka, archaeological excavations of which in the 1980s were carried out by the Crimean archaeologist S. Lantsov.
Until 1917, there were several buildings on the territory of the village, the “Scarlet” dacha, the owner of which supplied therapeutic mud to Livadia for the treatment of the hemophiliac Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia. On the map of the Crimean Statistical Office of 1922, Novo-Fyodorovka is not yet marked.[3] But according to the "List of settlements of the Crimean ASSR according to the All-Union census on December 17, 1926", the village of Novo-Fedorovka had 28 households, 26 of which were peasants, the population was 124 people: 118 of them were Russians and 6 were Armenians Crimean ASSR.[4]
In the 1930s, an unpaved airfield, which was to become Saky airbase, was built for the Kachinsky School of Military Pilots. During the German occupation of 1941–1944, an artificial surface was added to the airfield. In February 1945, the airfield received Winston Churchill's and Franklin Roosevelt's aircraft, when it arrived at the Yalta Conference.
According to a decree of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Crimea dated 12 December 1992, the urban-type settlement of Novofedorovka was formed as part of the Orekhovsky village council of the Saki district. In November 1995, a separate Novofedorovsky village council was formed.[5]
The area came under Ukrainian Navy control with the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Russo-Ukrainian War edit
During the 2014 annexation of Crimea, Russian forces occupied the town and nearby Saky airbase.[6]
On 9 August 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, several very large explosions occurred at the nearby Saky air base.[7][8] The explosions were focused on the extensive aircraft dispersal complex to the north and west of the runway complex.
References edit
- ^ This place is located on the Crimean peninsula, which is internationally recognized as part of Ukraine, but since 2014 under Russian occupation. According to the administrative-territorial division of Ukraine, there are the Ukrainian divisions (the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city with special status of Sevastopol) located on the peninsula. Russia claims these as federal subjects of the Russian Federation (the Republic of Crimea and the federal city of Sevastopol).
- ^ Russian Federal State Statistics Service (2014). "Таблица 1.3. Численность населения Крымского федерального округа, городских округов, муниципальных районов, городских и сельских поселений" [Table 1.3. Population of Crimean Federal District, Its Urban Okrugs, Municipal Districts, Urban and Rural Settlements]. Федеральное статистическое наблюдение «Перепись населения в Крымском федеральном округе». ("Population Census in Crimean Federal District" Federal Statistical Examination) (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
- ^ "Map of the Crimean Statistical Office of 1922". Archived from the original on 25 September 2013. Retrieved 5 April 2012.
- ^ Коллектив авторов (Крымское ЦСУ) (1927). "Список населенных пунктов Крымской АССР по всесоюзной переписи 17 декабря 1926 года". Simferopol: Crimean Central Statistical Office. pp. 72, 73.
- ^ Brief information Archived 27 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine. Saky Raion website.
- ^ Ripley, Tim (2 April 2014). "Ukrainian Navy decimated by Russian move into Crimea". Jane's Defence Weekly. p. 17.
- ^ Triebert, Christiaan (9 August 2022). "Explosion Rocks Russian Air Base in Crimea". The New York Times. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
- ^ "Ukraine war: Crimea airbase badly damaged, satellite images show". BBC. 11 August 2022.