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Nearly 8,000 Crimean Tatars died during the deportation, and tens of thousands perished subsequently due to the harsh exile conditions.{{sfn|Rywkin|1994|p=67}} The Crimean Tatar deportation resulted in the abandonment of 80,000 households and 360,000 acres of land.
The autonomous republic without its titled nationality was downgraded to [[Crimean Oblast|an oblast]] within the [[Russian SFSR]] on 30 June 1945
On 19 February 1954, the oblast was transferred from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR jurisdiction,<ref name="Chronology"/> on the basis of "the integral character of the economy, the territorial proximity and the close economic and cultural ties between the Crimea Province and the Ukrainian SSR"<ref>{{cite news|last=Calamur|first=Krishnadev|title=Crimea: A Gift To Ukraine Becomes A Political Flash Point|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2014/02/27/283481587/crimea-a-gift-to-ukraine-becomes-a-political-flash-point|date=27 February 2014|newspaper=NPR|access-date=27 September 2017}}</ref> and to commemorate the 300th anniversary of [[Treaty of Pereyaslav|Ukraine's union with Russia]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Ragozin|first=Leonid|title=Annexation of Crimea: A masterclass in political manipulation|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/annexation-crimea-masterclass-political-manipulation-190315174459207.html|publisher=Al Jazeera|date=16 March 2019 }}</ref><ref>[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-18287223 Crimea profile – Overview] BBC News. Retrieved 30 December 2015</ref>
[[Sevastopol]] was a [[closed city]] due to its importance as the port of the Soviet [[Black Sea Fleet]] and was attached to the Crimean Oblast only in 1978.{{Citation needed|date=September 2021}}
From 1991, the territory was covered by the [[Autonomous Republic of Crimea]] and Sevastopol City within independent [[Ukraine]]. In 1994, Russia signed the [[Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances]], which states that it would "Respect Belarusian, Kazakh and Ukrainian independence, sovereignty, and the existing borders".
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