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Kherson

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location_on Kherson Oblast, Ukraine
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Kherson is a city in southern Ukraine. It functions because the administrative center of Kherson Oblast. Designated as a city of oblast importance. Kherson is an vital port on the Black Sea and at the Dnieper River, and the home of a first-rate deliver-building enterprise. As of 2015 it had a populace of 294,941. Since the annexation of Crimea by way of the Russian Federation in 2014, Kherson additionally homes the office of the Presidential consultant of Ukraine in Crimea, which is headed with the aid of Nataliya Popovych. Until 1774, the region belonged to the Crimean Khanate.

Kherson become based in 1778 by way of Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin, at the orders of Catherine the Great. The metropolis changed into built below the supervision of General Ivan Gannibal on the site of a small fortress referred to as Aleksanderschanz. The call Kherson is a contraction of Chersonesos, an ancient Greek colony based approximately 2500 years ago within the southwestern a part of Crimea. One of the primary homes in the Kherson Fort became the Church of St. Catherine where Potemkin changed into in the end buried. The last tarpan changed into caught near Kherson in 1866.

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