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Simferopol travel guide |
 | | Contemporary Simferopol, "the gathering city", was founded in 1784 at the location nearby, on the banks of the river Salgir, the largest river on the Crimean peninsula, not far from existing Tatar settlement Ak-Mechet. |
 | | The autonomy of the republic was abolished, Crimea became on ordinary region of the Russian Federative Republic, and later was transferred to the Ukrainian SSR in commemoration of the 300-th anniversary of Russian-Ukrainian unification. |
 | | Simferopol nowadays is a large city with a busy life, but with only a small "historical city" district, mostly of XIX and beginning of XX century. |
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