Estonians in Ukraine

[2] The first settlements of Estonians on the territory of Ukraine appeared in the Crimea in the 1860s and were founded by the followers of Juhan Leinberg.

[3] The Imperial Russian Government allocated 36,000 acres of land in 40 villages for Estonians in Simferopol and other counties of Taurida Governorate.

After the Russian Revolution and the Ukrainian War of Independence, the number of Estonians on the territory of Ukraine increased primarily as a result of military and labor migrations.

In 1994, the Ukrainian Estonian Society was founded in Kyiv, with branches also appearing in Kharkiv, Odesa, and Lviv.

[4] Before the annexation, Estonia had an agreement with Ukraine to send a teacher to the Estonian language Aleksandrovka School in Crimea.