In geographically, economically and politically peripheral, but at the same, central space (Pietikäinen & Kelly-Holmes, 2013), individuals rely on certain multilingual practices to create own normativities and to manifest own identities. Crimean Tatars, an ethnic group pushed out to peripheries of the urban centres since their return, ‘exercise their agency’ and live ‘what is important to them’ (Stroud, 2018: 5) through creating spaces of otherwise.This paper builds on Linguistic Citizenship (Stroud, 2018) and utilizes a walking tour as an inclusive research method within the linguistic landscape tradition (Szabó & Troyer, 2018) to understand space-, place- and sense-making practices and their transformative force during an ethnographic practice. Being primarily introduced by participants as a ‘trip to beautiful places’, the walking tour transforms into a narration about deep-rooted intergenerational sense of loss, pain, and displacement, where the locals use various strategies to resist the larger system of social inequality and injustice. This paper discusses some of those strategies, understood as spatial practices of land squatting, place (re)naming, graffiti spraying, but also shifting of normative functions of certain places, such as cafes or religious sites, (which meet the needs of the community in question in a better way). Examination of material artefacts through the linguistic landscape lens, together with a careful analysis of participants’ narratives during a common walking tour, helps to understand how the locals use their multilingual resources and contingent materialities to create ‘spaces of otherwise’, i.e. differential cultural, religious, and political spaces, in the context of Crimean Tatar layered history of displacement.