Traditionally mixed Russo-Ukrainian populated territories are mainly historic Novorossiya (New Russia) and Sloboda Ukraine - now both split between the Russian Federation and Ukraine.
Russians constitute the majority in the Crimea (71.7% in Sevastopol and 58,5% in the Autonomous republic of Crimea),[REF] the southern peninsula which the Soviet government transferred from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR in 1954.