Sudak

Sudak

Судак

Sudak

Basic data

Oblast :

Autonomous Republic of Crimea

Rajon :

District-free city

Height :

50 m

Area :

15 km²

Residents :

36,400 (2004)

Population density :

2,427 inhabitants per km²

Postcodes :

98000-98015

Area code :

+380 6566

Geographic location :

44 ° 51 ' N , 34 ° 58' E Coordinates: 44 ° 51 '4 " N , 34 ° 58' 25" E

KOATUU :

111700000

Administrative structure :

1 city, 1 urban-type settlement , 13 villages, 1 settlement

Mayor :

Volodymyr M. Serov

Address:

вул. Леніна 85а 98000
м. Судак

Website :

http://www.sudak-news.info/

Statistical information

Sudak

Sudak ( Ukrainian and Russian Судак , Crimean Tatar Sudaq ) is a city in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea in Ukraine with 36,400 inhabitants (2004).

Sudak is a center for wine and sparkling wine production and a health resort with around 15 sanatoriums .

population

Composition of the population according to the 2001 census:

Ethnic group	numbers in percent
Russians	64.3%
Ukrainians	19.4%
Crimean Tatars	9.8%

history

Sudak was allegedly founded by Alans in 212 AD and was known by the Greek name Sugdeja . In the 6th century, a fortress was built on the orders of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I (482-565). The Khazars invaded the Crimea from the late 7th century . A Khazar governor with the Christian name Georg has been handed down to us in the city around 700. In the Middle Ages , the trading center was a major station on the Silk Road ; it reached the height of its importance in the 12th and 13th centuries. During this time, Sudak was also called Surosch ( Slavs ), Soldaja or Soldaia ( Byzantines and Italians ) by various peoples .

Sudak was an archbishopric of the Roman Catholic Church, from which the titular archbishopric Sugdaea goes back.

From 1204 Sudak became a de facto Venetian colony . The Franciscan Wilhelm von Rubruk landed here in 1253 to begin his journey to the Far East of Asia . In 1260 the brothers Maffeo and Niccolò Polo , father of the famous medieval traveler Marco Polo , visited their brother Marco the Elder in the Venetian Soldaia on their first trade trip to the Mongolian Empire, where he ran an office.

In the 13th to 14th centuries the place was plundered and destroyed several times by Tatar Mongols , the first time on January 27, 1223, but quickly rebuilt. In June 1365, the town and its surroundings were conquered by the Genoese . From June 1475 Sudak belonged to the sphere of influence of the Ottoman Empire .

Lutheran Church, 1887 (in the German colony)

In 1783 Sudak came to the Russian Empire with all of Crimea . In the Russian Empire, Sudak was part of the Taurian Governorate , which existed until October 1921. The first winery school in Russia was set up here in 1804, and in 1808 German settlers from Württemberg founded a wine-growing settlement near the existing village.

After the October Revolution , it was part of the ASSR of Crimea within the Russian SFSR .

During World War II , Sudak was occupied by German troops from November 1, 1941 to April 13, 1944 .

By resolution of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the Treaty of Pereyaslav , Sudak and the Crimean Oblast were annexed to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic on April 26, 1954 . From 1991 to 2014 Sudak was part of independent Ukraine.

It was not until 1979 that Sudak received city rights.

Since the internationally unrecognized annexation of the Crimean peninsula to Russia in March 2014, Sudak has de facto belonged to the federal subject of Southern Russia of the Russian Federation. De jure, according to the administrative-territorial division of Ukraine, Sudak is part of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea , which is one of the territories occupied by Russia.

Attractions

Consul tower of the Genoese fortress

A well-preserved Genoese fortress (11th-14th centuries).
Numerous spa buildings from the 19th century.
Numerous impressive natural landscapes.
An aquapark opened in 2003.

Panorama of Sudak

Other places in the administrative unit

Administratively, Sudak is an Oblast City , or Urban Rajon. At this Rajon include not only the city proper and the urban-type settlement Novy Swit (Новий Світ) and 13 villages: Bahatiwka (Багатівка) Wessele (Веселе) Woron (Ворон) Hromiwka (Громівка) Hruschiwka (Грушівка) Datschne ( Дачне) Lisne (Лісне) Mischritschtschja (Міжріччя) Morske (Морське) Perewaliwka (Перевалівка) Prybereschne (Прибережне) Sonjatschna Dolyna (Сонячна Долина) and Cholodiwka (Холодівка) and the settlement Myndalne (Миндальне).

Genoese fortress Sudak

East coast of Sudak

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

Aaron ben Joseph (* around 1260; † around 1320), Karaean scribe
Nikolai Iwanowitsch Sieber (1844–1888), economist, university professor and publicist
Mustafa Abduldschemil Dschemiljew (* 1943), politician and chairman of the National Assembly of Crimean Tatars