Or the Greeks who colonized the whole Black Sea area well before all of them except the Turks and the Russians deported or murdered them during the Soviet era as well as Catherine the Great another monster.
The large Russian population was relocated by the Soviet era .
All this crap that its Russian is pure propaganda
Crimea people voted back in 2000 to stay part of the Ukraine but semi autonomous. .
The Tatars are Greek descended, amongst a half dozen pre=14th century ethnic groups that melded into the Tatar identity in the Crimea.