Vesele | |
Native Name: | Веселе |
Native Name Lang: | uk |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | Crimea |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Vesele in Crimea |
Coordinates: | 44.8553°N 34.8786°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Republic |
Subdivision Name1: | Crimea |
Subdivision Type2: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name2: | Sudak Municipality |
Established Title: | First mentioned |
Established Date: | 1520 |
Unit Pref: | Metric |
Elevation Footnotes: | [1] |
Elevation M: | 126 |
Population Total: | 1675 |
Population As Of: | 2014 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Timezone: | MSK |
Utc Offset: | +4 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | 98031 |
Area Code Type: | Area code |
Area Code: | +380 6566 |
Website: | http://rada.gov.ua/ |
Vesele or Vesyoloye (uk|Веселе; ru|Весёлое) is a village in the Sudak Municipality of the Crimea, a territory recognized by a majority of states as part of Ukraine and annexed and claimed by Russia as the Republic of Crimea.[2] Previously, the settlement was known as the Kutlak village (crh|Qutlaq). Following the forced deportation of the Crimean Tatars in 1944, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR published a decree on May 18, 1948 renaming the settlement along with many others throughout Crimea from their native Crimean Tatar names to their current variants.[3]
Vesele is located on Crimea's southern shore at an elevation of 126m (413feet).[1] Its population was 1,596 in the 2001 Ukrainian census.[2] Its current population is