Saky (: ; crh, Saq) or Saki is a town of regional significance in

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, in the

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. Although it is the

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of the

Saky Raion Saky Raion ( uk, Сакський район, russian: Сакский район, crh, Saq rayonı) is one of the 25 regions of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, a territory recognized by a majority of countries as part of Ukraine and incorpora ...

, it does not belong to the raion (district), serving instead as the center and the only locality of Saky Municipality. Population:

History

The exact origin of the present town of Saky is unknown. At the time of the

Crimean Khanate The Crimean Khanate ( crh, , or ), officially the Great Horde and Desht-i Kipchak () and in old European historiography and geography known as Little Tartary ( la, Tartaria Minor), was a Crimean Tatars, Crimean Tatar state existing from 1441 to ...

, Saky was a small village. In 1805, Saky had less than 400 people, more than 95 percent of whom were

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. In 1827, the first bathhouse was built and ten years later an office of the military hospital of

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. During the

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, the allied forces landed near Saky between Saky Lake and Kyzyl-Yar Lake and besieged

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. 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 Crimean Tatars, the Tatar population of Saky abandoned the ruined village. In 1858, migrants from the region of

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settled there, followed a little later by the Greeks of

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. In February 1945, the British and American delegations at the Yalta conference landed at

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. Saky city council member Oleg Kolodyazhny ( Our Ukraine) was shot dead in Saky on June 29, 2010.У Криму розстріляли депутата

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(June 29, 2010) A series of explosions occurred at the nearby Saky air base on August 9, 2022.

Economy and Industry

* Jodobrom § Iodobrom, bromine iodine and other halogens halides and other different chemicals * Saky Chemical Plant, Chemical Industry, various chemicals production : Saki CHP thermal plant was recently updated enhanced output with an PGU GTE25P gas turbine units

Education

* Agricultural College (Branch), Crimean Federal University

Gallery

File:Панорама города Саки и Сакского озера (Чокрак)2.JPG, Lake Cokrak in Saky File:СакиПляжПрибой.JPG, Beach in Saky File:СакиПрибой1.JPG, Seaside resorts

References

External links

{{Subdivisions of Crimea Cities in Crimea Saky Municipality Cities of regional significance in Ukraine Port cities of the Black Sea