Novofedorivka ( uk, Новофедорівка) or Novofyodorovka (russian: Новофёдоровка; crh, Novofödorovka) is an
urban-type settlement
Urban-type settlementrussian: посёлок городско́го ти́па, translit=posyolok gorodskogo tipa, abbreviated: russian: п.г.т., translit=p.g.t.; ua, селище міського типу, translit=selyshche mis'koho typu, ab ...
.
It is located about south of the regional centre of
Saky
Saky (: ; crh, Saq) or Saki is a town of regional significance in Ukraine, in the Crimean peninsula. Although it is the administrative centre of the Saky Raion, it does not belong to the raion (district), serving instead as the center and th ...
, and about north of
Sevastopol
Sevastopol (; uk, Севасто́поль, Sevastópolʹ, ; gkm, Σεβαστούπολις, Sevastoúpolis, ; crh, Акъя́р, Aqyár, ), sometimes written Sebastopol, is the largest city in Crimea, and a major port on the Black Sea ...
.
Population:
History
![Russian Naval Aviation aircraft at Novofedorovka airbase](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/Russian_Naval_Aviation_aircraft_at_Novofedorovka_airbase.jpg)
Back in the 5th century BC there was an ancient Greek settlement on the site of Novofedorovka, archaeological excavations of which in the 1980s were carried out by the Crimean archaeologist S. Lantsov.
Until 1917, there were several buildings on the territory of the village, the “Scarlet” dacha, the owner of which supplied therapeutic mud to
Livadia for the treatment of the hemophiliac
Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia. On the map of the Crimean Statistical Office of 1922, Novo-Fyodorovka is not yet marked. But according to the "List of settlements of the Crimean ASSR according to the All-Union census on December 17, 1926", the village of Novo-Fedorovka had 28 households, 26 of which were peasants, the population was 124 people: 118 of them were Russians and 6 were Armenians Crimean ASSR.
In the 1930s, an unpaved airfield, which was to become
Saky (air base)
Soviet Fleet Admiral Kuznetsov and Franklin Roosevelt on the base in February 1945. Roosevelt came for the Yalta Conference ">Yalta_Conference.html" ;"title="February 1945. Roosevelt came for the Yalta Conference">February 1945. Roosevelt cam ...
, was built for the
Kachinsky School of Military Pilots. During the German occupation of 1941-1944, an artificial surface was added to the airfield. In February 1945, the airfield received
Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, from 1940 to 1945 Winston Churchill in the Second World War, dur ...
's and
Franklin Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (; ; January 30, 1882April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American politician and attorney who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. As the ...
's aircraft, when it arrived at the
Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference (codenamed Argonaut), also known as the Crimea Conference, held 4–11 February 1945, was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union to discuss the post ...
.
According to a decree of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Crimea dated 12 December 1992, the urban-type settlement of Novofedorovka was formed as part of the Orekhovsky village council of the Saki district. In November 1995, a separate Novofedorovsky village council was formed.
The area came under
Ukrainian Navy
The Military Naval Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine ( uk, Військо́во-морські́ си́ли Збро́йних сил Украї́ни, ВМС ЗСУ) is the maritime forces of Ukraine and one of the five branches of the Arme ...
control with the
dissolution of the Soviet Union
The dissolution of the Soviet Union, also negatively connoted as rus, Разва́л Сове́тского Сою́за, r=Razvál Sovétskogo Soyúza, ''Ruining of the Soviet Union''. was the process of internal disintegration within the Sov ...
.
Russo-Ukrainian War
During the
2014 annexation of Crimea, Russian forces occupied the town and nearby
Saky airbase.
On 9 August 2022, during the
Russian invasion of Ukraine
On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which began in 2014. The invasion has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths on both sides. It has caused Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II. An ...
,
several very large explosions occurred at the nearby Saky air base.
The explosions were focused on the extensive
aircraft dispersal complex to the north and west of the runway complex.
References
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Port cities of the Black Sea
Urban-type settlements in Crimea
Populated places established in 1992
Saky Raion
Former closed cities