Port of Sevastopol

Port of Sevastopol
Port of Sevastopol is located in Sevastopol
Port of Sevastopol
Port of Sevastopol
Port of Sevastopol (Sevastopol)
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Location
CountryUkraine[1]
LocationSevastopol
Coordinates44°36′56″N 33°31′35″E / 44.61556°N 33.52639°E / 44.61556; 33.52639
Details
Opened1875
Owned bySea/River Fleet Administration (government)
Type of harbourNatural/Artificial
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Website
www.morport.sebastopol.ua
Sevastopol port in 2005

Sevastopol Marine Trade Port (SMTP) is a port in Sevastopol. It is located mainly at the Bay of Sevastopol, and at smaller bays around the Heracles peninsula. The port infrastructure is fully integrated with the city of Sevastopol and naval bases of the Russian Navy and the Black Sea Fleet.

The port had previously been under the sovereignty of Ukraine following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 and a formal partition treaty was signed by Ukraine and Russia in 1997. Portions of the port were owned by the private sector.[not verified in body]. The port came under full Russian control when Russia occupied the Crimean peninsula in early 2014 after a highly criticized referendum known as the 2014 Crimean status referendum.[2]

  1. ^ Disputed territory; occupied by Russia
  2. ^ Anatoliy Pronin. "A treaty on accession of the Republic of Crimea and Sebastopol to the Russian Federation. Unofficial English translation with little commentary". Academia.edu. Archived from the original on 2022-02-08. Retrieved 2014-04-02.