Svatove, Crimea

The village was established by Crimean Tatars under the name of Sultanash.^[1] Following the Crimean War, the village was abandoned due to the Tatar exodus, but was quickly reestablished by ethnic Ukrainian settlers, who moved into the abandoned settlements.^[2][3] In 1948, after Soviet authorities deported the remainder of the Crimean Tatar population to Central Asia, the village was renamed to Svatovo as part of a large de-Tatarization campaign on the peninsula. In 2014, along with the rest of Crimea, the settlement came under Russian occupation and was unilaterally annexed by the Russian Federation, after Russian-installed authorities conducted a referendum, which was widely considered to be a sham vote with predetermined results.^[4]

As of the 2001 Ukrainian census, the village had a population of 230 inhabitants. In terms of ethnic groups living in the settlement, it is estimated that Ukrainians make up a solid majority, followed by large Crimean Tatar and Russian minorities.^[5] When it comes to spoken languages in the settlement, a relative majority of the population is Ukrainian speaking, while large minorities speak Russian and Crimean Tatar. The exact native language composition was as follows:^[6]

As of the 1926 Soviet census, authorities registered 21 yards and a population of 107 inhabitants. The ethnic composition was as follows:^[7]