Kherson
Kherson
ะฅะตััะพะฝ |
Coat of arms |
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Map of Ukraine with Kherson highlighted. |
Location of Kherson |
Coordinates: |
Country
Oblast
Raion |
Ukraine
Kherson Oblast
Kherson City Municipality |
Founded |
June 18, 1778 |
Government |
- Mayor |
Volodymyr Saldo |
Area |
- Total |
135.7 kmยฒ (52.4 sq mi) |
Population (2007) |
- Total |
358,000 |
- Density |
1,081/kmยฒ (2,799.8/sq mi) |
Postal code |
73000 |
Area code(s) |
+380 552 |
Website: www.city.kherson.ua |
Kherson (Ukrainian and Russian: ะฅะตััะพะฝ) is a city in southern Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Kherson Oblast (province), and is designated as its own separate raion (district) within the oblast. Kherson is an important port on the Black Sea and Dnieper River, and the home of a major ship-building industry.
The current estimated population is 329,000 (as of 2007).
History
Until 1774, the region belonged to the Crimean Khanate. Kherson was founded in 1778 by Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin, on the orders of Catherine the Great. The city was built on the site of a small fortress called Aleksandr-Shants. The name Kherson is a contraction of Chersonesos, an ancient Greek colony founded approximately 2500 years ago in the southwestern part of Crimea.
See also Kherson history in maps, below.
Demographics
As of Ukrainian National Census (2001), the ethnic groups living within Kherson are:
Population
Year |
Population |
1790 |
24 000 |
1926 |
58 000 |
1939 |
97 000 |
1959 |
158 000 |
1981 |
361 000 |
2004 |
354 000 |
2007 |
329 000 |
Architectural monuments
- Kherson TV Tower โ is a famous construction located in the city.
- Spaskiy Cathedral (1781)
- Adziogol Lighthouse, hyperboloid structure designed by V.G.Shukhov, 1911
Famous people from Kherson
- Sergei Bondarchuk, Soviet, Ukrainian-born film director, screenwriter, and actor.
- Evgeny Kucherevsky, Ukrainian football coach of Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (died 2006)
- Larissa Latynina, a Soviet gymnast who was the first female athlete to win nine Olympic gold medals
- Tatiana Lysenko, a Soviet and Ukrainian gymnast who won the gold medal on the balance beam at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.
- Moshe Sharett, the second Prime Minister of Israel (1953-1955)
- Sergey Stanishev, Prime Minister of Bulgaria
- Mircea Ionescu-Quintus, a Romanian politician, writer, and jurist
- John Howard (died in Kherson in 1790)
- Salomon Rosenblum, later known as Lieutenant Sidney Reilly, a secret agent and international adventurer and playboy who was at one time employed by the British Secret Intelligence Service. He is reputed to be the real inspiration for Ian Fleming's spy character, James Bond.
- Leon Trotsky, Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist.
- Jefim (Jef) Golyscheff (1897-1970) Painter and composer associated with the Dada movement in Berlin..
- Nikolai Grinko, Ukrainian Soviet-era film actor
- Vladimir Nikolaevich Kravchenko (b.07.07.1947,Kherson city), Ukrainian painter. ะะธััะตััะฒะพ ะฃะบัะฐัะฝะธ, 1997 โ ะก. 331.
Places of interest
History in maps
External links
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Administrative divisions of Kherson Oblast, Ukraine |
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Administrative center: Kherson |
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Raions |
Beryslavskyi ยท Bilozerskyi ยท Chaplynskyi ยท Henicheskyi ยท Holoprystanskyi ยท Hornostaivskyi ยท Ivanivskyi ยท Kakhovskyi ยท Kalanchatskyi ยท Novotroitskyi ยท Novovorontsovskyi ยท Nyzhnosirohozkyi ยท Skadovskyi ยท Tsiurupynskyi ยท Velykolepetyskyi ยท Velykooleksandrivskyi ยท Verkhniorohachytskyi ยท Vysokopilskyi
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Cities |
Beryslav ยท Henichesk ยท Hola Prystan ยท Kakhovka ยท Kherson ยท Nova Kakhovka ยท Skadovsk ยท Tavriisk ยท Tsiurupynsk
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Urban-type
settlements |
Bilozerka ยท Chaplynka ยท Hornostaivka ยท Ivanivka ยท Kalanchak ยท Novotroitske ยท Novovorontsovka ยท Nyzhni Sirohozy ยท Velyka Lepetykha ยท Velyka Oleksandrivka ยท Verkhniy Rohachyk ยท Vysokopillia ยท more...
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