Kherson

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Kherson
Херсон
Kherson coat of arms
Kherson (Ukraine)
Kherson
Kherson
Basic data
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 Coordinates: 46 ° 39 '14 "  N , 32 ° 35' 58"  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
Website : http://www.city.kherson.ua/
Statistical information
Kherson (Kherson Oblast)
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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

View of the Dnieper

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

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.

Number of inhabitants
year 1897 1923 1926 1939 1959 1970 1979 1989 2001 2010 2019
Residents 59,076 41,086 57,376 96,987 157.995 260,687 318.908 355.379 328.360 304.613 289.096
Source: pop-stat.mashke.org

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

Adschihol lighthouse

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 .

  • Gate of the old fortress

  • Catherine Cathedral

  • Art museum

  • Orthodox church in the Shumensky district

Town twinning

  • United StatesUnited States Kent (Connecticut) , United States of America
  • NorwayNorway Oslo , Norway
  • PolandPoland Rzeszów , Poland
  • BulgariaBulgaria Shumen , Bulgaria
  • United StatesUnited States Tucson , Arizona, United States of America
  • Bosnia and HerzegovinaBosnia and HerzegovinaUgoschtschina, district of Sarajevo , Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • TurkeyTurkey Zonguldak , Turkey

sons and daughters of the town

Web links

Commons : Kherson  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Dnepr: Odessa – Crimea – Black Sea. Travel information booklet by JPM Guides, 2009, p. 25
  2. ↑ Верховна Рада України; Постанова від 19.05.2016 № 1377-VIII Про перейменування окремих населених пунктів та районів
  3. ↑ Верховна Рада України; Постанова від 19.05.2016 № 1377-VIII Про перейменування окремих населених пунктів та районів
  4. ↑ Верховна Рада України; Постанова від 19.05.2016 № 1377-VIII Про перейменування окремих населених пунктів та районів
  5. ^ 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. "
  6. ↑ 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.