title: Reunification of Crimea with Russia: socio-historical, political and socio-cultural background
abstract: The article reveals the role and importance of Crimea in the history of Russia, shows the conflicts associated with the changing status of the Peninsula within the Russian Empire, the USSR, independent Ukraine and the Russian Federation, emphasizes the legal legitimacy of the reunification of Crimea with Russia in 2014, which has a clearly defined spatial character. It is noted that the will of the Crimean regional community in addressing the issue of the referendum on reunification with Russia 
journal: Sociologicheskaja nauka i social naja praktika