Honcharne

The village of Goncharnoye is located in the Varnutskaya Valley between Sevastopol and Foros. It has been known since 1783 as the village of Varnitka in the Crimean Khanate. It was part of the Bakhchisarai Kaimakanate of Mangup Kadylyk. Since 1865, it has been mentioned in documents as the Tatar village of Varnutka as part of the Yalta district. This name remained until 1945, when, after the deportation of the Crimean Tatars, their deserted villages were massively renamed. For Varnutka, they chose an arbitrary name Goncharskoe, which had no toponymic basis. In Soviet times, when Sevastopol was a closed city, there was a checkpoint on the highway near the village. In Goncharny there is a fotnan with clean water, and next to the village there is a pond. Opposite the village there is a Ger ...

The village of Goncharnoye is located in the Varnutskaya Valley between Sevastopol and Foros. It has been known since 1783 as the village of Varnitka in the Crimean Khanate. It was part of the Bakhchisarai Kaimakanate of Mangup Kadylyk. Since 1865, it has been mentioned in documents as the Tatar village of Varnutka as part of the Yalta district. This name remained until 1945, when, after the deportation of the Crimean Tatars, their deserted villages were massively renamed. For Varnutka, they chose an arbitrary name Goncharskoe, which had no toponymic basis. In Soviet times, when Sevastopol was a closed city, there was a checkpoint on the highway near the village. In Goncharny there is a fotnan with clean water, and next to the village there is a pond. Opposite the village there is a German cemetery, where the soldiers of the Wehrmacht, who died in the Crimea during the Second World War, are buried.