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Berehove, Yalta Municipality, Crimea

For other uses, see Berehove.

Berehove (Ukrainian: Берегове; Russian: Береговое; Crimean Tatar: Kastropol from Greek: Καστρόπολις, romanized: Kastròpolis, lit. 'castle-city') is a rural settlement in the Yalta Municipality of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, a territory recognized by a majority of countries as part of Ukraine and annexed by Russia as the Republic of Crimea.[2]

Berehove is located on Crimea's southern shore at an elevation of 77 metres (253 ft).[1] The settlement is located 10.5 km (6.5 mi) west from Simeiz, which it is administratively subordinate to.[2] Its population was 478 in the 2001 Ukrainian census.[2] Current population: 374 (2014 Census).[3]

Demographics

According to the Ukrainian national census in 2001, Berehove had a population of 478 inhabitants. It is estimated that Ukrainians constitute a majority in the settlement, followed by a large ethnic Russian minority and smaller Belarusian and Crimean Tatar communities. The majority of all non-Russian ethnic groups in the town speaks the Russian language as their primary tongue, with the only exception being the Crimean Tatar community.[4] The exact native language composition was as follows:[5]

First languages in Berehove
percent
Russian
 
 77.2%
Ukrainian
 
 21.8%
Belarusian
 
 0.4%
Crimean Tatar
 
 0.2%
others
 
 0.4%

References

  1. ^ a b "Berehove (Crimea region)". weather.in.ua. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
  2. ^ a b c "Berehove, Autonomous Republic of Crimea, City of Yalta". Regions of Ukraine and their Structure (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
  3. ^ Russian Federal State Statistics Service (2014). "Таблица 1.3. Численность населения Крымского федерального округа, городских округов, муниципальных районов, городских и сельских поселений" [Table 1.3. Population of Crimean Federal District, Its Urban Okrugs, Municipal Districts, Urban and Rural Settlements]. Федеральное статистическое наблюдение «Перепись населения в Крымском федеральном округе». ("Population Census in Crimean Federal District" Federal Statistical Examination) (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  4. ^ "Языковый состав населения" [Linguistic composition of the population]. sf.ukrstat.gov.ua (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2012-08-28.
  5. ^ "Рідні мови в об'єднаних територіальних громадах України" [Native Languages in the United Territorial Communities of Ukraine]. socialdata.org.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 11 December 2024.