Solomon Krym
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Solomon Krym was an agronomist and a Crimean Karaite
Crimean Karaites
The Crimean Karaites , also known as Karaim and Qarays, are a community of ethnic Turkic adherents of Karaite Judaism in Eastern Europe...

 politician.

He was elected in 1906 to the First Duma (1906-1907) as a Kadet (Constitutional Democratic Party
Constitutional Democratic party
The Constitutional Democratic Party was a liberal political party in the Russian Empire. Party members were called Kadets, from the abbreviation K-D of the party name...

).

A few months after the dismantling of the Tatar-controlled Crimean People's Republic
Crimean People's Republic
The Crimean People's Republic existed during December, 1917, and January, 1918, in the Crimean peninsula, located in the south of the present-day Ukraine. The Republic was the first attempt in the Muslim world to establish a state that was both democratic and secular...

, he was briefly the Finance Minister under the first Crimean government headed by General Suleyman Sulkiewicz. On November 16, 1918 he became the Prime Minister of a short-lived Crimean Russian liberal, anti-separatist and anti-Soviet government also supported by the German army. His Foreign Affairs Minister was Maxim Vinaver, another former Kadet member of the First Duma.

After the defeat of the Volunteer Army
Volunteer Army
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 in April 1919 he emigrated and went into exile in a Russian émigrés colony at Bormes-les-Mimosas
Bormes-les-Mimosas
Bormes-les-Mimosas is a commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France.It has a Mediterranean climate.Bormes-les-Mimosas is a city in bloom and won the 2003 Gold Medal awarded by the Entente Florale...

 (France
France
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), building a house on the "Russian hill" there.

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