Kacha, Sevastopol

Place in Crimea

Kacha Кача Кача Qaçı
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44°46′0″N 33°33′0″E / 44.76667°N 33.55000°E / 44.76667; 33.55000
Country	Disputed Russia, Ukraine
Republic	Crimea
Region	Sevastopol
Elevation	20 m (70 ft)
Population (2001)
• Total	4,996
Time zone	UTC+4 (MSK)
Postal code	99804
Area code	+380-692

Kacha (Ukrainian: Кача; Russian: Кача; Crimean Tatar: Qaçı) is an urban-type settlement under the City of Sevastopol's jurisdiction, a territory recognized by a majority of countries as part of Ukraine and incorporated by Russia as part of the Crimean Federal District.

History

Kacha was founded in 1912. It received urban-type settlement status in 1938.^[1]

Military outpost

There is an airbase in Kacha used by Russia and its Black Sea Fleet Naval Air Force as headquarters for the 25th Independent Anti-submarine Helicopter Regiment (25th AHR) and the 917th Independent Composite Air Regiment (917th ICAR).^[2] Occupied by Germany in part of 1942-part of 1944.

Demographics

1926 — 366 inhabitants
1939 — 2,834 inhabitants
1989 — 5,783 inhabitants
2001 — 6,320 inhabitants

References

^ Онищук, В. І. "Кача" [Kacha]. Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Vol. 12. NASU Institute of Encyclopaedic Research. ISBN 978-966-02-2074-4.
^ Freyhof, Jörg; Naseka, Alexander. "Proterorhinus tataricus, a new tubenose goby from Crimea, Ukraine" (PDF). {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)