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Beshui has vanished.

In 1778 hundreds of Greeks left Beshui to resettle, at the invitation of Empress Catherine II, on the shores of the Sea of Azov. The Tatar population of the village grew in time and in the absence of the Greeks. The village…

Ruins of a Greek church

41 Georgians abandoned this area in 1778.

Ruins of a Greek church. The only example of an angular (rather than semispherical) altar identified by Keppen.

unsurveyed

686 Greeks abandoned this area in 1778.

In the wake of their departure, the Tatar population of the village grew in time. The village thrived generation after generation until May 1944, when the Tatars were summarily deported.

In August 1945…

A dacha composed of 794 desiatinas (2,143 acres), of which 92% was considered suitable for cultivation.

Located at the western end of Kuchuk Uzen.

5 Catholics and 225 Greeks abandoned this area in 1778.