The original Crimean Tatar quarter, on a slope south-east of the city centre between the river and the railway. The lanes here are narrower, more crooked, and quieter than anywhere else in Simferopol: one- and two-storey houses of pale limestone, courtyard gates, occasional bakeries selling fresh chebureki.
The neighbourhood was the heart of the city before Russian annexation in 1783 and remained largely Tatar until the mass deportation of 1944. Repopulation has been gradual but real — many returning Tatar families settled here in the 1990s. There is nothing in the way of formal sights beyond the Kebir-Jami Mosque, but it is the most atmospheric corner of the city.