Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Disputed , |
Subdivision Name1: | Crimea |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Name2: | Sevastopol |
Timezone: | MSK |
Utc Offset: | +4 |
Official Name: | Kacha |
Native Name: | Кача Кача Qaçı |
Pushpin Map: | Sevastopol#Crimea#Black Sea#Ukraine#European Russia |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Kacha within Sevastopol |
Coordinates: | 44.7667°N 33.55°W |
Elevation M: | 20 |
Population Total: | 4996 |
Population As Of: | 2001 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | 99804 |
Area Code: | +380-692 |
Kacha (; ; Crimean Tatar; Crimean Turkish: Qaçı) is an urban-type settlement under the City of Sevastopol's jurisdiction, a territory recognized by a majority of countries as part of Ukraine and incorporated by Russia as part of the Crimean Federal District.
Kacha was founded in 1912. It received urban-type settlement status in 1938.[1]
There is an airbase in Kacha used by Russia and its Black Sea Fleet Naval Air Force as headquarters for the 25th Independent Anti-submarine Helicopter Regiment (25th AHR) and the 917th Independent Composite Air Regiment (917th ICAR).[2] Occupied by Germany in part of 1942-part of 1944.