Lenine or Lenino is a town in the eastern Crimea

Crimea

Crimea , or the Autonomous Republic of Crimea , is a sub-national unit, an autonomous republic, of Ukraine. It is located on the northern coast of the Black Sea, occupying a peninsula of the same name...

, in the southwestern part of the Kerch Peninsula

Kerch Peninsula

The Kerch Peninsula is a major and prominent geographic feature located at the eastern portion of Crimea. Stretching towards the Taman peninsula, it is reminiscent of an isthmus between two neighboring seas: Azov Sea and Black Sea...

. It is the seat of the Lenine Raion

Lenine raion

Lenine Raion is one of the 25 regions of Crimea. It is situated in the eastern part of the republic....

. Its Crimean Tatar name Yedi Quyu means "Seven Wells". Until 1957 it was known as Sem' Kolodezey ) which also means "Seven Wells" in Russian/Ukrainian, but then was renamed after Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and communist politician who led the October Revolution of 1917. As leader of the Bolsheviks, he headed the Soviet state during its initial years , as it fought to establish control of Russia in the Russian Civil War and worked to create a...

. The railway station by the Dzhankoy

Dzhankoy

Dzhankoy is a city in the north of Crimea, Ukraine, and the capital of Dzhankoy raion. It is located about from the Crimean capital, Simferopol. Two railroad lines, Kharkiv-Sevastopol and Armyansk-Kerch, cross Dzhankoy. In 1926, Dzhankoy was granted city status.Dzhankoy is a great transportation...

-Kerch

Kerch

Kerch is a city on the Kerch Peninsula of eastern Crimea, an important industrial, transport and tourist centre of Ukraine. Kerch, founded 2600 years ago, is considered as one of the most ancient cities in Ukraine.-Ancient times:...

branch located in the town is still called Sem' Kolodezey.