began to appear in the crimea on the territory of the peninsula itself, from the principality of feodor and the crimean khanate, it immediately became absolutely it is obvious how important the connection with the mainland is for crimea, and almost always the decline of crimea-crimea began with the breaking of this connection with the mainland, one of the first politicians who realized the importance of this connection was the russian empress catherine ii, who, of course, annexed for the first time, crimea for the benefit of its state, what did it do, it first of all occupied these mainland lands on which the crimean khanate was located and actually cut off the connection of crimea with the mainland, there were already russian outposts on the trench, and with it kateryna ii did not destroy the statehood of crimea, but even more. it forced the authorities of the crimean khanate to give up their enthusiasm for the ottoman empire to declare their independence, but this independence was economically and politically unsustainable without the mainland, and it was not surprising that later the