- Kherson
Infobox Settlement
English_name = Cherson
official_name = Kherson
native_name = Херсон
nickname =
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image_caption =
image_shield =Kherson1995_city_coa.gif
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mapsize = 250px
map_caption = Map of Ukraine with Kherson highlighted.
subdivision_type = Country
Oblast
Raion
subdivision_name =Ukraine Kherson Oblast
Kherson City Municipality
established_title = Founded
established_date =June 18 ,1778
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leader_title =Mayor
leader_name = Volodymyr Saldo
area_magnitude =
area_total_km2 = 135.7
area_land_km2 =
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population_as_of = 2007
population_note =
population_total = 358000|population_footnotes=
population_metro =| population_density_km2 = 1081|pushpin_
pushpin_label_position =
pushpin_map_caption =Location of Kherson
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latd=46 |latm=38 |lats=0 |latNS=N
longd=32 |longm=35 |longs=0 |longEW=E
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|postal_code_type=Postal code
postal_code = 73000
area_code = +380 552
blank_info =
blank1_info =Rzeszów |blank1_name=Sister cities
|website = [http://www.city.kherson.ua/ www.city.kherson.ua]
footnotes =Kherson ( _uk. Херсон) is a
city in southernUkraine . It is the administrative center of theKherson Oblast (province), and is designated as its own separateraion (district) within the oblast. Kherson is an importantport on theBlack Sea andDnieper River , and the home of a majorship-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 byGrigori 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 ofChersonesos , an ancient Greek colony founded approximately 2500 years ago in the southwestern part ofCrimea .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
*
Kherson TV Tower — is a famous construction located in the city.
* Spaskiy Cathedral (1781)
*Adziogol Lighthouse ,hyperboloid structure designed by V.G.Shukhov, 1911Famous people from Kherson
*
Sergei Bondarchuk , Soviet, Ukrainian-born film director, screenwriter, and actor.
*Evgeny Kucherevsky , Ukrainian football coach ofDnipro Dnipropetrovsk (died 2006)
*Larissa Latynina , aSoviet gymnast who was the first female athlete to win nine Olympic gold medals
*Tatiana Lysenko , aSoviet and Ukrainiangymnast who won the gold medal on the balance beam at the1992 Summer Olympics inBarcelona .
*Moshe Sharett , the secondPrime Minister of Israel (1953-1955)
*Sergey Stanishev ,Prime Minister of Bulgaria
*Mircea Ionescu-Quintus , a Romanianpolitician ,writer , andjurist
* John Howard (died in Kherson in 1790)
* Salomon Rosenblum, later known as LieutenantSidney Reilly , asecret agent and international adventurer and playboy who was at one time employed by the BritishSecret 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 andcomposer associated with theDada movement inBerlin ..
*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
History in maps
External links
* [http://www.city.kherson.ua/ Kherson city administration website] uk icon
* [http://www.Kherson.org.ua/ Kherson portal] uk icon
* [http://www.cun-kh.at.ua/ Kherson patriots] uk icon
* [http://www.xepcoh.info/ Kherson City Portal - Info and Entertainment] uk icon
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