Hrushivka or Grushevka (; ) is a village in the

Sudak Municipality Sudak City Municipality (, , ), officially "the territory governed by the Sudak city council" is one of the 25 regions of the Crimea, Crimean peninsula, currently subject to a territorial dispute between the Russian Federation and Ukraine. Populat ...

of the

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, a territory recognized by a majority of countries as part of

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and

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as the Republic of Crimea. Previously, the settlement was known as the Suuk-Sala village (). Following the forced deportation of the

Crimean Tatars Crimean Tatars (), or simply Crimeans (), are an Eastern European Turkic peoples, Turkic ethnic group and nation indigenous to Crimea. Their ethnogenesis lasted thousands of years in Crimea and the northern regions along the coast of the Blac ...

in 1944, the

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of the

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published a decree on May 18, 1948 renaming the settlement along with many others throughout Crimea from their native Crimean Tatar names to their current variants.:ru:s:Указ Президиума ВС РСФСР от 18.05.1948 о переименовании населённых пунктов Крымской области, Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR from 18.05.1948 about the renaming of populated settlements in the Crimean Oblast (Указ Президиума ВС РСФСР от 18.05.1948 о переименовании населённых пунктов Крымской области) on the Russian Wikisource. Hrushivka is located on Crimea's southern shore at an elevation of . Its population was 2,054 in the Ukrainian Census (2001), 2001 Ukrainian census. Current population:

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* Villages in Crimea Sudak Municipality {{Crimea-geo-stub