Kherson

Kherson Херсон
Coat of arms
Map of Ukraine with Kherson highlighted.
Kherson Location of Kherson
Coordinates: 46°38′0″N 32°35′0″E / 46.63333, 32.58333
Country Oblast Raion	Ukraine Kherson Oblast Kherson City Municipality
Founded	June 18, 1778
Government
- Mayor	Volodymyr Saldo
Area
- Total	135.7 km² (52.4 sq mi)
Population (2007)
- Total	358,000
- Density	1,081/km² (2,799.8/sq mi)
Postal code	73000
Area code(s)	+380 552
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 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:

• Ukrainians - 76.6%
• Russians - 20.0%
• Other - 3.4%

Population

Architectural monuments

Hyperboloid Adziogol Lighthouse by V.G.Shukhov near Kherson, Ukraine, 1911

• Kherson TV Tower — 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. Мистецтво України, 1997 — С. 331.

Places of interest

Saint Catherine Cathedral	Memorial of first ship Slava Ekaterina (Catherine's Glory)	The Dnieper near Kherson	Kherson Oblast Administration building
Old Kherson	Kherson Suvorov street	Kherson Church	Kherson Suvorov street
Kherson Pharmacy	Kherson library	Kherson Bank	Kherson city center
Kherson street	Kherson street	Kherson Synagogue	Kherson Synagogue
Kherson Synagogue	Kherson Synagogue	Kherson Potemkin	Kherson Suvorov street
Kherson Suvorov Street	Kherson Karl Marx Street	Kherson Church Zabalka	street sign
new construction

History in maps

Taurica	Taurica (450 BC) 5 century BC	Sarmatia 1 century BC	East Germanic tribes 750 BC-1AD
Roman Empire 117 AD	Ostrogoths 230 AD	Ostrogoths300 AD	Huns empire 434-453 AD
Avars 5-8 century AD	Slavs 7-8 century AD	Great Bulgaria 650 AD	Khazars 950 AD
Pechenegs 1015 AD	Cumans(Kipchak,Polovtsy) 11-12 century AD	Golden Horde 1243-1438 AD	Crimean Khanate 1441-1783 AD
Novorossiya	Novorossiya

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Kherson

Look up Kherson in
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• Kherson city administration website (Ukrainian)
• Kherson patriots (Ukrainian)

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