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{{Short description|Town in Crimea}}
{{for|the nearby naval airbase|Saky (air base)}}
{{Infobox settlement
| settlement_type    = 
| subdivision_type   = [[Countries of the world|Country]]
| subdivision_name   = {{UKR}} (occupied by [[Russia]])
| subdivision_type1  = [[Autonomous republic]]
| subdivision_name1  = [[Autonomous Republic of Crimea|Crimea]] (<i>de jure</i>)
| subdivision_type2  = [[Raions of Ukraine|Raion]]
| subdivision_name2  = [[Yevpatoria Raion]] (<i>de jure</i>)
| timezone           = [[Moscow Time|MSK]], [[de facto]]
| utc_offset         = +3
| timezone_DST       = 
| utc_offset_DST     = 
| official_name      = Saky
| native_name        = Саки<br>Saq
| image_shield       = COA Saky, Crimea, Ukraine.svg
| image_skyline      = Дворец культуры в Саках, 2021, 02.jpg
| image_flag         = FLA Saky, Crimea, Ukraine.svg
| pushpin_map        = Crimea
| pushpin_label_position = 
| pushpin_map_caption = Location of Saky within Crimea
| pushpin_mapsize    = 
| coordinates        = {{coord|45|8|1|N|33|34|38|E|region:UA|display=inline,title}}
| elevation_m        = 10
| area_total_km2     = 29
| population_total   = 25146
| population_footnotes = 
| population_as_of   = 2014
| population_density_km2 = 983.52
| postal_code_type   = [[Postal code]]
| postal_code        = 96500 — 96509
| area_code          = +7-36563
| website            = http://saki.rk.gov.ru/rus/index.htm
| footnotes          = 
| pushpin_relief     = y
| module             = {{Infobox mapframe |wikidata=yes |zoom=12|frame-height=260 | stroke-width=1 |coord={{WikidataCoord|display=i}}}}
| subdivision_type3  = [[Federal subjects of Russia|Federal subject]]
| subdivision_type4  = [[Municipality]]
| subdivision_name4  = [[Saky Municipality]] (<i>de facto</i>)
| subdivision_name3  = [[Republic of Crimea (Russia)|Crimea]] (<i>de facto</i>)
}}
'''Saky''' ([[Ukrainian language|Ukrainian]] and {{langx|ru|Саки}}; {{langx|crh|Saq}}) is a city in [[Crimea]]. Although it is the [[administrative centre]] of the [[Saky Raion]], it does not belong to the raion (district), serving instead as the center and the only locality of [[Saky Municipality]]. Population: {{Crimea-census2014|25,146|punct=.}}

==History==
The exact origin of the present town of Saky is unknown. At the time of the [[Crimean Khanate]], Saky was a small village. In 1805, Saky had less than 400 people, more than 95 percent of whom were [[Crimean Tatars]]. In 1827, the first bathhouse was built and ten years later an office of the military hospital of [[Simferopol]].

During the [[Crimean War]], the allied forces landed near Saky between Saky Lake and [[Melitopol|Kyzyl-Yar Lake]] and besieged [[Sevastopol]]. At the beginning of February  1855, the troops of General Stepan Aleksandrovich Khroulev focused on Saky before attacking the enemy in the fortifications of [[Yevpatoria|Evpatoria]]. The village was completely destroyed by bombing.

After the Crimean War, during the second wave of emigration of Crimean Tatars, the Tatar population of Saky abandoned the ruined village. In 1858, migrants from the region of [[Poltava]] settled there, followed a little later by the Greeks of [[Constantinople]].

In February 1945, the British and American delegations at the Yalta conference landed at [[Saky Airport]].

Saky city council member Oleg Kolodyazhny ([[Our Ukraine (political party)|Our Ukraine]]) was shot dead in Saky on June 29, 2010.<ref>{{in lang|uk}} [http://photo.unian.net/ukr/themes/18260 Події за темами: У Криму застрелили мера курортного селища], [[UNIAN]] (June 29, 2010)</ref><ref>{{in lang|uk}} [http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2010/06/29/5180808/ У Криму розстріляли депутата], [[Ukrayinska Pravda]] (June 29, 2010)</ref>

A [[Explosions in Novofedorivka|series of explosions]] occurred at the nearby [[Saky Airport|Saky air base]] on August 9, 2022.

== Economy ==
* Jodobrom § Iodobrom, bromine iodine and other halogens halides and other different chemicals
* Saky Chemical Plant, Chemical Industry, various chemicals production
: Saki CHP thermal plant was recently updated enhanced output with an PGU GTE25P gas turbine units

== Education ==

* [[Crimean Federal University|Agricultural College (Branch), Crimean Federal University]]

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:Панорама города Саки и Сакского озера (Чокрак)2.JPG|Lake Cokrak in Saky
File:СакиПляжПрибой.JPG|Beach in Saky
File:СакиПрибой1.JPG|Seaside resorts
</gallery>

==Notable people==
*[[Dmytro Matviyenko]] (born 1992), Ukrainian football player
*[[Mykola Matviyenko]] (born 1996), [[Ukrainians|Ukrainian]] football player with over 250 camps for [[FC Shakhtar Donetsk|Shakhtar Donetsk]], and over with 70 camps of obtained call-ups from the [[Ukraine national football team]].

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
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{{Saky Raion}}
{{Subdivisions of Crimea}}
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[[Category:Saky| ]]
[[Category:Cities in Crimea]]
[[Category:Saky Municipality]]
[[Category:Cities of regional significance in Ukraine]]
[[Category:Port cities of the Black Sea]]