Kherson
Kherson | ||
Херсон | ||
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Oblast : | Kherson Oblast | |
Rajon : | District-free city | |
Height : | 43 m | |
Area : | 300 km² | |
Residents : | 289.096 (2019) | |
Population density : | 964 inhabitants per km² | |
Postcodes : | 73000- | |
Area code : | +380 55 | |
Geographic location : | 46 ° 39 ' N , 32 ° 36' E | |
KOATUU : | 6510100000 | |
Administrative structure : | 3 urban ravines , 4 urban-type settlements , 6 villages, 3 settlements | |
Mayor : | Volodymir Mykolaenko | |
Address: | пр. Ушакова 37 73000 м. Херсон |
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Website : | http://www.city.kherson.ua/ | |
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Kherson ( Ukrainian and Russian Херсон [ xɛrˈsɔn ]) is a seaport city in Ukraine and the capital of Kherson Oblast with about 290,000 inhabitants. The name Cherson is derived from the Greek word Chersonesos ("peninsula"), with which the Greeks a. a. designated the Crimea .
geography
Kherson lies at the beginning of the delta of the Dnepr . It is another 30 km to the Black Sea . The port city of Mykolaiv is 60 km northwest of the city , and Crimea begins almost 100 km southeast .
The city is divided into
- three Stadtrajone : dniprovskyi district , Rajon Korabel , Rajon Suvorov
- four settlements of urban type : Antoniwka (Антонівка) Seleniwka (Зеленівка) Komyschany (Комишани) Naddniprjanske (Наддніпрянське)
- three villages: Bohdaniwka (Богданівка) Petriwka (Петрівка) Stepaniwka (Степанівка)
- six settlements : Blahowischtschenske (Благовіщенське, 2016 Petrowskoho ) Inschenerne (Інженерне, 2016 Schowtnewe ) Molodischne (Молодіжне) Symiwnyk (Зимівник, 2016 Kujbyschewe ) Pryoserne (Приозерне) Sonjatschne (Сонячне).
In a further subdivision, the urban-type settlement Antoniwka, Zelenivka and Naddniprjanske, the villages Bohdaniwka and Petrivka and the settlements Inschenerne, Molodischne and Sonjatschne are subordinate to the Dnipro district, the SsT Komyshany as well as the settlements Symivnyk, Blahowischneka and the village Steponaniwabelka and the village Pronyvishne Suvorov Raion.
history
Until 1774 the region belonged to the Khanate of Crimea . The city of Cherson was founded in 1778 on the instructions of the Russian Tsarina Catherine II and at the suggestion of Prince Grigori A. Potjomkin next to the Russian fortification Alexanderschanze , which was built between 1737 and 1739 . The streets, squares and buildings were laid out in the form of a regular chessboard. For years, Kherson was an important base for the Russian Black Sea Fleet . The city only lost this status after Ukrainian independence. The main outer belt asteroid (2701) Kherson is named after the city.
population
76.5 percent (as of 2001) of the population are Ukrainians, of which 28.2 percent use Russian as their mother tongue. The Russians make up 19.9 percent of the population. There is also a small group of Tatars living in Kherson.
year | 1897 | 1923 | 1926 | 1939 | 1959 | 1970 | 1979 | 1989 | 2001 | 2010 | 2019 |
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Residents | 59,076 | 41,086 | 57,376 | 96,987 | 157.995 | 260,687 | 318.908 | 355.379 | 328.360 | 304.613 | 289.096 |
Economy and Transport
Kherson has an important shipbuilding industry due to its river port and seaport .
The railway junction connects Kherson with Moscow, Dnipro , Kharkiv , Simferopol and other cities. The city also has a commercial airport and is on the highway M 14 connected to the Ukrainian road network.
In 1943, near the city, the “largest railway bridge of the Second World War” was built by German railway pioneers. It was 2 km long, the water depth was 14 meters, the height above water 10 meters. To ensure stability, 400 steel pipes were driven up to 17 meters into the muddy ground. The construction took seven months and was carried out by the reinforced I./Eisb.Pi.Rgt.2.
Attractions
Remains of the first fortifications are to be mentioned here, as well as museums and three important church buildings: the Katharinenkathedrale (1774) with the grave of Prince Potjomkin, the Sophienkirche (1780) and the Heiliggeistkathedrale with a big dome (1836).
In the vicinity of the city, in the delta of the Dnieper, stands the 64-meter-high Adschihol lighthouse , a rotational hyperboloid that was built in 1911 by the Russian engineer Vladimir Grigoryevich Schuchow .
Town twinning
- Kent (Connecticut) , United States of America
- Oslo , Norway
- Rzeszów , Poland
- Shumen , Bulgaria
- Tucson , Arizona, United States of America
- Ugoschtschina, district of Sarajevo , Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Zonguldak , Turkey
sons and daughters of the town
Web links
- Photos Kherson (russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Dnepr: Odessa – Crimea – Black Sea. Travel information booklet by JPM Guides, 2009, p. 25
- ↑ Верховна Рада України; Постанова від 19.05.2016 № 1377-VIII Про перейменування окремих населених пунктів та районів
- ↑ Верховна Рада України; Постанова від 19.05.2016 № 1377-VIII Про перейменування окремих населених пунктів та районів
- ↑ Верховна Рада України; Постанова від 19.05.2016 № 1377-VIII Про перейменування окремих населених пунктів та районів
- ^ Lutz D. Schmadel : Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . Fifth Revised and Enlarged Edition. Ed .: Lutz D. Schmadel. 5th edition. Springer Verlag , Berlin , Heidelberg 2003, ISBN 978-3-540-29925-7 , pp. 186 (English, 992 pp., Link.springer.com [ONLINE; accessed on September 7, 2019] Original title: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . First edition: Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg 1992): “1978 RT. Discovered 1978 Sept. 1 by NS Chernykh at Nauchnyj. "
- ↑ Otto Krahmer: The 7.Eisb.Pi.Kp.Rgt.3mot. 1938–1945, without place and year (self-published by the author, Wittdün / Amrum, 1985), unpaginated (approx. Pp. 2, 135, 137, photo p. 139); as well as photo material from the estate of surveying officer Erich Fresdorf, which the sole heir had largely given to the Military History Museum of the Bundeswehr in Dresden by the end of 2013 and which was permanently assigned to the Federal Republic of Germany - represented by the Federal Ministry of Defense.
- City Wiki (Russian)