Saky ( Ukrainian and ; ) is a city in

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. Although it is the

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of the

Saky Raion Saky Raion (, , ) is one of the 25 regions of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, a territory recognized by a majority of countries as part of Ukraine and incorporated by Russia as the Republic of Crimea. Its administrative center is the city of S ...

, it does not belong to the raion (district), serving instead as the center and the only locality of

Saky Municipality The Saky City Municipality (, translit. ''Saks'ka mis'krada'') is one of the 25 regions of the Crimean Peninsula, internationally recognized as part of Ukraine, but currently occupied by Russia. The region is located on the western coast of Crimea ...

. Population:

History

The exact origin of the present town of Saky is unknown. At the time of the

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, Saky was a small village. In 1805, Saky had less than 400 people, more than 95 percent of whom were

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. In 1827, the first bathhouse was built and ten years later an office of the military hospital of

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. During the

Crimean War The Crimean War was fought between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, the Second French Empire, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Kingdom of Sardinia (1720–1861), Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont fro ...

, the allied forces landed near Saky between Saky Lake and Kyzyl-Yar Lake and besieged

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. At the beginning of February 1855, the troops of General Stepan Aleksandrovich Khroulev focused on Saky before attacking the enemy in the fortifications of

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. The village was completely destroyed by bombing. After the Crimean War, during the second wave of emigration of Crimean Tatars, the Tatar population of Saky abandoned the ruined village. In 1858, migrants from the region of

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settled there, followed a little later by the Greeks of

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. In February 1945, the British and American delegations at the Yalta conference landed at

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. Saky city council member Oleg Kolodyazhny ( Our Ukraine) was shot dead in Saky on June 29, 2010.У Криму розстріляли депутата

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(June 29, 2010) A series of explosions occurred at the nearby Saky air base on August 9, 2022.

Economy

* Jodobrom § Iodobrom, bromine iodine and other halogens halides and other different chemicals * Saky Chemical Plant, Chemical Industry, various chemicals production : Saki CHP thermal plant was recently updated enhanced output with an PGU GTE25P gas turbine units

Education

* Agricultural College (Branch), Crimean Federal University

Gallery

File:Панорама города Саки и Сакского озера (Чокрак)2.JPG, Lake Cokrak in Saky File:СакиПляжПрибой.JPG, Beach in Saky File:СакиПрибой1.JPG, Seaside resorts

Notable people

Dmytro Matviyenko Dmytro Matviyenko (); Dmitriy Matviyenko (; born 25 May 1992) is a Ukrainian (until 2014), Russian football defender. Career Matviyanko was born in Saky where at the age of 6 he started attending the local sportive youth school. Matviyenko ma ...

(born 1992), Ukrainian football player *

Mykola Matviyenko Mykola Oleksandrovych Matviyenko (; born 2 May 1996) is a Ukrainian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back or left-back for Shakhtar Donetsk and the Ukraine national team. Club career Matvienko was born in Saky, AR Crimea, Ukrain ...

(born 1996), Ukrainian football player with over 250 camps for

Shakhtar Donetsk Football Club Shakhtar Donetsk () is a Ukrainian professional Association football, football club that was based in the city of Donetsk until 2014 when, due to the War in Donbas (2014–2022), War in Donbas, the club was forced to move to Lvi ...

, and over with 70 camps of obtained call-ups from the

Ukraine national football team The Ukraine national football team ( ) represents Ukraine in men's international Association football, football, and is governed by the Ukrainian Association of Football, the governing body for football in Ukraine. Ukraine's home ground is the ...

References

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