Simferopol

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The capital of Crimea, on the site of Scythian Neapolis.

Simferopol was founded in 1784 beside the ruins of Scythian Neapolis — capital of the late Scythian kingdom of the 3rd century BC. The Crimean Tatar drama theatre, the Crimean Tatar museum and the Gasprinsky library worked here. Since 2014 the city has been the centre of the occupation administration, and the Crimean Tatar community faces systematic persecution.

Under occupation since 20 February 2014.

Chronicle

• 26 February 2014 — A rally outside Crimea's parliament: Crimean Tatars and Ukrainians came out against the separatists.
• 27 February 2014 — Armed men without insignia seized the buildings of the parliament and the government of Crimea.
• 18 March 2014 — Warrant officer Serhiy Kokurin was killed during the storming of the 13th photogrammetric centre — the first Ukrainian serviceman killed by the occupiers in Crimea.