Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Modern Crimean Tatar: Qırım Muhtar Sotsialist Sovet Cumhuriyeti; Official Crimean Tatar name (Uniform Turkic Alphabet): Qrьm Avonomjalь Sotsialist Sovet Respublikasь; Russian: Крымская Автономная Советская Социалистическая Республика - Krymskaya Avtonomnaya Sovetskaya Socialisticheskaya Respublika) (October 18, 1921—June 30, 1945) was created as part of RSFSR within the Crimean Peninsula, its capital being Simferopol.1 The official languages were Crimean Tatar and Russian.
A significant part of its population were Crimean Tatars, who were stripped of their property and civil rights and forcibly resettled to Central Asia in 1944.2 (Their constitutional rights were restored in 1967.) However, they were not allowed to return until the last days of the Soviet Union.
