Mar 19, 2014 ... Crimea was part of Russia from 1783, when the Tsarist Empire annexed it a  decade after defeating Ottoman forces in the Battle of Kozludzha, until 1954,  when the Soviet government transferred Crimea from the Russian Soviet  Federation of Socialist Republics (RSFSR) to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist ...
According to Russian website Pravda.ru, the Presidium of the Supreme Council  gathered for a session on February 19, 1954 when ... indicate that both the  Russian SFSR and the Ukrainian SSR had given their consent via their republic  parliaments.
Feb 21, 2014 ... Take Crimea, for instance. More than half of its 2 million people are Russian, and  Russia still maintains a naval base there. In fact, the region was part of Russia  until 1954, when Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev gave it to Ukraine as a present.  When the Soviet Union broke up in 1991, Crimea became part of ...
Feb 27, 2014 ... It remained like this until 1945, when it became the Crimean Oblast, an  administrative region of Russia. ... Then, in 1954, something unusual happened:  Russia gave it to Ukraine. Why exactly did Premier Nikita Khrushchev transfer the  Crimean Oblast to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic? In an ...
Feb 27, 2014 ... In 1954, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev transferred Crimea from Russia to  Ukraine. ... presentation of the Presidium of the Russian Republic Supreme  Soviet and the Presidium of the Ukraine Republic Supreme Soviet on the transfer  of Crimea Province from the Russian Republic to the Ukraine Republic.".
Crimea was part of Russia "until 1954, when it was given to the Soviet Republic of the Ukraine."