Monument to Ismail Gasprinskiy

A monument to Crimean Tartar cultural and public- political figure Ismail Gasprinskiy in Bahchysaray (Crimea), on Monday, May 12, 2008. On May 18, 2008 there was the 64th anniversary of deportation of Crimean Tartars from Crimea. The deportation of Crimean Tartars from Crimea started in 1944. According to different data, from 180 thousand to 190 thousand of people were sent from the territory of peninsula, they were deportee to Central Asia and Siberia. The returning process of Tartars to Crimea started at the end of 80ies - early 90ies of the 20th century. Photo by Aleksandr Yurchenko/UNIAN