Krasnoarmiiske

Kodzhalak (; ), until 2023 Krasnoarmiiske (; ), is a village located on the territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea in Southern Ukraine. Due to its location on the Crimean peninsula, the settlement is part of an ongoing territorial dispute between Ukraine and the Russian Federation, which was triggered by a swift Russian military invasion, which resulted in the full occupation of the peninsula. Following the military takeover, Russia held a sham vote and unilaterally declared its annexation of Crimea, which enjoys barely any international recognition.

== History == The existence of the settlement was first documented by the Ottoman explorer Evliya Çelebi in 1667, when the region was still part of the Crimean Khanate. Following the annexation of the Crimean Khanate by the Russian Empire, the local Crimean Tatar population abandoned the settlement and emigrated to Turkey. In 1888, German settlers reestablished the settlement as a Lutheran colony. Ethnic Ukrainians also started to populate the settlement during the following years. As of the 1926 Soviet census, the village's population consisted of 80 Germans, 14 Ukrainians and a single Russian person. In 1941, the NKVD ordered the deportation of the German population on the Crimean peninsula, which ended the 53-year-long German presence in the settlement. Seven years later, the village was renamed to Krasnoarmiiske, but regained its original Turkic name in 2023, after the Ukrainian parliament voted to introduce a law, which aimed at removing names linked to Russian imperialism.