Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Modern ; Official Crimean Tatar name (
Uniform Turkic Alphabet):
Qrьm Avonomjalь Sotsialist Sovet Respublikasь; -
Krymskaya Avtonomnaya Sovetskaya Socialisticheskaya Respublika) (
October 18,
1921—
June 30,
1945) was created as part of
RSFSR within the
Crimean Peninsula, its capital being
Simferopol. The official languages were
Crimean Tatar and Russian.
A significant part of its population were
Crimean Tatars, which were stripped of their property and civil rights and
forcibly resettled to
Central Asia in
1944. (Their constitutional rights were restored in 1967.) However, they were not allowed to return until the last days of the Soviet Union.
In 1945 it was converted into the
Crimean Oblast of RSFSR, which was transferred to
Ukrainian SSR in
1954.
The autonomy was reestablished in 1991 as a part of independent
Ukraine. Today it is officially named the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.
