Kherson

Kherson
Kherson; Херсон
	; Coat of arms
	; Coat of arms
	Map of Ukraine with Kherson highlighted.
	; Kherson Location of Kherson
	Coordinates: 46°38′0″N 32°35′0″E / 46.633333°N 32.583333°E
Country; Oblast; Municipality; City Rayons	Ukraine; Kherson Oblast; Kherson City; Dneprovski rayon; Suvorovski rayon; Komsomolski rayon
Founded	June 18, 1778
	Government
- Mayor; City Council Chairman; City council; City Council Seats; City Rayon Council Chairman; CityRayon council; CityRayon Council;	Volodymyr Saldo
	Area
- Total	135.7 km2 (52.4 sq mi)
	Population (2007)
- Total	358,000
- Density	2,651/km2 (6,866.1/sq mi)
Postal code	73000
Area code(s)	+380 552
Website	www.city.kherson.ua

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For the Greek colony, see Cherson.

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).

[edit] History

Dnieper River

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.

The last tarpan was caught near Kherson in 1866.

[edit] Demographics

As of Ukrainian National Census (2001), the ethnic groups living within Kherson are:

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

[edit] Population

Year	Population
1790	24,000
1926	58,000
1939	97,000
1959	158,000
1981	361,000
2004	354,000
2007	329.000

[edit] Administrative divisions

There are three city raions. Two of them still carry mark of a colonial city of Russia.

Dnipro Raion, named after Dnieper river.
Komsomol Raion, named after the Russian Communist youth organization, Komsomol.
Suvorov Raion, named after the Russian General Suvorov.

[edit] Education

[edit] 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, 1911

[edit] 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)
Sergei Stanishev, Ex-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.
Abram Petrovich Gannibal
Alexander Suvorov, founder of the city
Grigory Potyomkin, founder of the city

[edit] Places of interest

Saint Catherine Cathedral	Memorial of first ship Slava Ekaterina (Catherine's Glory)	The Dnieper near Kherson	Old Kherson
Kherson Suvorov street	Kherson Church	Kherson Pharmacy	Kherson library
Kherson Synagogue	Kherson Potemkin	Kherson Church Zabalka