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Kherson
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- For the Greek colony see Cherson
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Ukraine Kherson Oblast Kherson City Municipality |
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| Founded | June 18, 1778 | ||
| Mayor | Volodymyr Saldo | ||
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| Area - City |
135,7 km² |
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| Population - City (2007) - Density |
321,4 1,081/km² |
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| Coordinates | Coordinates: | ||
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| Postal Code | 73000 | ||
| Dialing Code | +380 552 | ||
| Sister cities | Rzeszów | ||
| Website: www.city.kherson.ua | |||
Kherson (Ukrainian and Russian: Херсон) 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 321,4 (as of 2007).
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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.
During the period of German occupation in WW II, the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN(B)) operated actively in the city as a resistance movement. The Kherson ring of OUN(B) was headed by the brother of Stepan Bandera.
Under the protection of partisan detachments, the OUN(B) held a meeting intended to publicise itself and liaise with other nationalist groups which was attended by two thousand people.
On August 12 1942 eight people suspected in belonging to the Ukrainian underground were arrested in Kherson and in November the OUN(B) network was liquidated by the Germans.
As of Ukrainian National Census (2001), the ethnic groups living within Kherson are:
- Ukrainians - 76.4%
- Russians - 20.0%
- Other - 3.4%
- Kherson TV Tower- is a famous construction located in the city.
- Spaskiy Cathedral (1781)
- Adziogol Lighthouse, hyperboloid structure designed by V.G.Shukhov, 1911
- 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..
 Saint Catherine Cathedral |
 Memorial of first ship Slava Ekaterina (Catherine's Glory) |
 The Dnieper near Kherson |
 Kherson Oblast Administration building |
- Kherson Ukraine guide. Information on restaurants, marriage agencies, accommodation, hotels, apartments, dinning, history, etc. (English)
- Kherson city administration website (Ukrainian)/(Russian)
- Kherson portal (Ukrainian)/(Russian)
- Kherson patriots (Ukrainian)/(Russian)
| Administrative divisions of Kherson Oblast, Ukraine | ||
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| Administrative center: Kherson | ||
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Beryslav · Henichesk · Hola Prystan · Kakhovka · Kherson · Nova Kakhovka · Skadovsk · Tavriisk · Tsiurupynsk |
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| Capital: Kiev | ||
| Oblasts | Cherkasy · Chernihiv · Chernivtsi · Dnipropetrovsk · Donetsk · Ivano-Frankivsk · Kharkiv · Kherson · Khmelnytskyi · Kiev · Kirovohrad · Luhansk · Lviv · Mykolaiv · Odessa · Poltava · Rivne · Sumy · Ternopil · Vinnytsia · Volyn · Zakarpattia · Zaporizhia · Zhytomyr |  |
| Cities with special status | Kiev City · Sevastopol City | |
| Autonomous Republic | Autonomous Republic of Crimea | |
| Administrative centers | Cherkasy · Chernihiv · Chernivtsi · Dnipropetrovsk · Donetsk · Ivano-Frankivsk · Kharkiv · Kherson · Khmelnytskyi · Kiev City · Kirovohrad · Luhansk · Lutsk · Lviv · Mykolaiv · Odessa · Poltava · Rivne · Sevstopol City · Simferopol · Sumy · Ternopil · Uzhhorod · Vinnytsia · Zaporizhia · Zhytomyr | |