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I was also surprised to find out that the Crimea was for a long time part of Russia, and its division was transferred in 1954 to become part of the then Ukranian Soviet Socialist Republic.

And then, of course, to become part of Ukraine when it broke away as an independent nation, along with other former USSR states, in the Dec 1991 dissolving of the Soviet Union.