СОММ UNIAN ARCHIVE Crimean Tatars bend Crimean Tatar National participate in all-Crimean commemoration meeting at Lenin square dedicated to the 60-th anniversary of their deportation from Crimea, Simferopol, Wednesday, May 18, 2004. Tatars commemorate the 62-th anniversary of their deportation from Crimea on May 18, 2006. More than 200 thousand Crimean Tatars, Armenians, Bulgarians, Greeks and Germans were took away from Crimea to Uzbekistan steppe by Stalin’s order that day in 1944. Photo by Igor Tkachenko / UNIAN