title: Southern Federal Okrug
abstract: Sevastopol City is situated at the south-western tip of the Crimean Peninsula. The Black Sea lies to the west and the Republic of Crimea to the east. The territory’s major river is the Chorna. Sevastopol was a stronghold of support for the Bolsheviks during the civil war after the revolutions of 1917. Sevastopol, though a separate administrative unit, with the rest of the Crimean peninsula, was transferred from Russian to Ukrainian jurisdiction in 1954. In November 2016 the City Legislative Asse