Ethnography of Crimea

  The population of Crimea,  icluding Sevastopol, is about 2 milion. However, for Ukraine such population densty is average. But in August, up to 2 milion visitants stay simultaneously on the peninsula, at these periods the whole population number doubles, reaching in certain areas of the coast the density value on the most populated areas of Japan: more then one thousand people per square kilometer.

   Presently Russians are the largest portion of Crimean population? then follow Ukrainians, Crimean Tatars (their number is rapidly growing),   significant are the numbers of Byelorussians, Jews, Armenians, Greeks, Germans, Bulgarians, Poles, Checks, Italians. Small in number, yet appericable in the Crimean culture are the Caraites and the Crimeates.

   Russian persist as the language of international communication in Crimea.

   The ethnic history of Crimea is very tangled and dramatic. The earliest mention of its ancient population - the Cimmerians - can be found in Homerus' writings, and in the Old Testament. The father of the history herodotus and other antique writers have left us a detailed description of the inhabitants of steppes - the Scythians (their language is considered to be a member of the Northen-Iranian family) and these of mountains -  the Tauri (they are presumed to be indo-Europeans). The mountain and foothill Crimea has the commonly accepted name after name Tauri - Tauris.

   You can click any photo on that page and read about each ethnic population of Crimea.

Informatin for that page was taken from book "Time to come to Crimea" (Practical Guide), authors:  I. Rusnov, K. Rusanov.

All of these photos was taken in Ethnographic museum of Simferopol.