title: The problem of Sevastopol&amp;apos;s status in the context of the 1991 referendums
abstract: The article analyzes two referendums that took place in Sevastopol in 1991 and related to the issue of its administrative-territorial status: the referendum on January 20, 1991 on the status of Crimea (with a separate vote on the status of Sevastopol) and the referendum on December 1, 1991 on the independence of Ukraine. The research focuses on reconstructing the reasons for the city&amp;apos;s participation in the January 20 vote on the &amp;quot;re–establishment of the Crimean Autonomous Sovie
journal: Российская история / Rossiiskaia istoriia