Crimea, autonomous republic, southern ukraine. Crimea’s unique location makes it a strategically important asset, and russia has spent centuries fighting for it. The soviet fleet in crimea was in contention, but a 1997 treaty allowed.
After ukrainian independence in 1991, most of the peninsula was reorganised as the autonomous republic of crimea. Crimea’s unique location makes it a strategically important asset, and russia has spent centuries fighting for it. Crimea is surrounded by the black sea, making it a valuable naval base.
Provides an overview of crimea, ukrainian territory militarily occupied by russia since 2014. Soviet leader nikita khrushchev transferred crimea from russia to ukraine in 1954, when both were part of the ussr, to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the. Crimea, which juts out into the black sea off southern ukraine, was absorbed into the russian empire along with most ethnic ukrainian territory by catherine the great in the. In their war against the “red” bolshevik forces, the “white” tsarists were forced to retreat to crimea, where the peninsula served as a last bastion for the whites.