Saky
(Ukrainian: Саки, Crimean Tatars: Saq) is a town of regional significance in the Crimean peninsula, currently subject to a territorial dispute between the Russian FederatieenOekraïne. Although it is the administrative center of the Saky rayon, it does not belong to the raion (district), where in place as the center and the only place of Saky municipality. Population: 23.655 (2013 estimated population); 29,46 (2001).
History
The exact origin of the present town of Saky is unknown. At the time of the Crimean Khanate, Saky was a small village. In 1805, Saky had less than 400 people, more than 95 percent of them were Crimean Tatars. In 1827, the first bathhouse was built and ten years later an office of the military hospital of Simferopol.
During the crimean war, the allied forces landed near Saky between Saky Lake and Kýzýl-Yar Lake and besieged Sevastopol. At the beginning of February 1855, the troops of General Stepan Aleksandrovich Khroulev focused on Saky before attacking the enemy in the fortifications of Evpatoria. The village was completely destroyed by bombing.
After the crimean war, during the second wave of emigration of the Crimean Tatars, the Tatar population of Saky abandoned the ruined village. In 1858, migrants from the region of Poltava, settled there, later followed by the Greeks of Constantinople.
In February 1945, the British and American delegations at the Yalta conference, and landed at the airport in Saky.
Saky council member Oleg Kolodyazhny (Our Ukraine) was in Saky shot dead on 29 June 2010.
