country_of_citizenship volodymyr zagorodniy
Simferopol City Municipality ( officially " the territory governed by the Simferopol city council ") is one of the 25 regions of the Crimean peninsula , currently subject to a territorial dispute between the Russian Federation and ___MASK77___ . Population : Volodymyr Zagorodniy ( born November 11 , 1983 in Simferopol ) is a Ukrainian road bicycle racer . He turned professional in 2007 . Simferopol Raion is one of the 25 regions of the Crimean peninsula , currently subject to a territorial dispute between the Russian Federation and ___MASK77___ . The administrative center of the raion is the city of Simferopol which is incorporated as a town of republican significance and is not a part of the district . The Simferopol Raion is situated in the central part of the peninsula . Population : ___MASK78___ ( from the  Rus '), also officially known as the Russian Federation , is a country in Eurasia . At , ___MASK78___ is the largest country in the world by surface area , covering more than one - eighth of the Earth ' s inhabited land area , and the ninth most populous , with over 140 million people at the end of March 2016 . The European western part of the country is much more populated and urbanised than the eastern , about 77 % of the population live in European ___MASK78___ . ___MASK78___ ' s capital Moscow is one of the largest cities in the world , other major urban centers include Saint Petersburg , Novosibirsk , Yekaterinburg , Nizhny Novgorod and Samara . ___MASK77___ ( tr . ) is a sovereign state in Eastern Europe , bordered by ___MASK78___ to the east and northeast , Belarus to the northwest , Poland and Slovakia to the west , Hungary , Romania , and Moldova to the southwest , and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south and southeast , respectively . ___MASK77___ is currently in territorial dispute with ___MASK78___ over the Crimean Peninsula which ___MASK78___ annexed in 2014 but which ___MASK77___ and most of the international community recognise as Ukrainian . Including Crimea , ___MASK77___ has an area of , making it the largest country entirely within Europe and the 46th largest country in the world . It has a population of about 44 . 5 million , making it the 32nd most populous country in the world . Simferopol ("  " ) is a city on the Crimean peninsula , the status of which is disputed between ___MASK77___ and ___MASK78___ . As a result of 2014 vote to join ___MASK78___ , which was held during Russian military intervention , and the subsequent annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation , Simferopol has , de facto , been the administrative centre of the Republic of Crimea though it remains , de jure , the capital of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea . Simferopol is an important political , economic , and transport hub of the peninsula and serves as the administrative center of both Simferopol municipality and Simferopol Raion though it does not belong to the raion . Population :