Administratively, Inkerman was subordinate to the municipality of Sevastopol, but since September 2023 it de jure became a part of Bakhchysarai Raion of AR Crimea.

During the Soviet times, a large underground ammunition warehouse of the Black Sea Fleet was situated under rocky cliffs in the Inkerman area.

However, no efforts to secure the site were made until the 1990s when local residents began salvaging explosives which led to a number of deaths.

Ukrainian Army engineer corps started extracting and decommissioning outdated ammunition in 2000 under a special government program.

Inkerman has since largely returned to its pre-war obscurity, serving as a suburb of Sevastopol linked to the downtown core by commuter ferries.