The Crimea is a peninsula on the northern coast of the Black Sea, washed by the Sea of Azov from the northeast. It is located in the south of Ukraine (Ukraine) and includes the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Sevastopol, and partly the southern region of Kherson. The Autonomous Republic of Crimea (Ukrainian Крим, Russian Крым, in ancient times known as Tauris) has its capital in Simferopol (Ukrainian Сімферополь) and covers an area of 26,844 km². After the Russian Civil War in 1917, it became part of the USSR. Under the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (1894-1971), Crimea was annexed to the then Soviet republic of Ukraine in 1954 and remained part of the Ukrainian state after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. On the southern coast lies the historically significant resort of Yalta.
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