rural settlement (Ukraine)
In Ukraine, the term "populated place" () refers to a structured component of the human settlement system, representing a stationary community within a territorially cohesive and compact area characterized by a significant concentration of popul ...
in the
Alushta Municipality
Alushta City Municipality (, , ), officially "the territory governed by the Alushta city council", also known as Greater Alushta is one of the 25 regions of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, a territory recognized by a majority of countries as p ...
of the
Autonomous Republic of Crimea
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and
annexed
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by
Russia
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lavender
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."
Lavanda is located on Crimea's southern shore at an elevation of . It is administratively subordinate to the Luchyste
Village Council
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. Its population was 177 in the
2001 Ukrainian census
The 2001 Ukrainian census is to date the only census of the population of independent Ukraine. It was conducted by the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine on 5 December 2001, twelve years after the last Soviet Union census in 1989.M18 highway runs near the settlement.