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Everything about Kherson totally explained » For the Greek colony see Cherson
Kherson 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).
History
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.
Demographics
As of Ukrainian National Census (2001), the ethnic groups living within Kherson are:
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, 1911
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)
Sergey Stanishev, 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.
Places of interest
Image:Ukraine_Cherson_2St.-Ekater.jpg|Saint Catherine Cathedral
Image:Ukraine_Cherson_Memorial.jpg|Memorial of first ship Slava Ekaterina (Catherine's Glory)
Image:Ukraine_Dnepr_bei_Cherson.jpg|The Dnieper near Kherson
Image:Ukraine Oblast Cherson Verwaltung.jpg|Kherson Oblast Administration building
Image:Kherson.jpg|Old Kherson
Image:Kherson-02.JPG|Kherson Suvorov street
Image:Kherson-03.JPG|Kherson Church
Image:Kherson-04.JPG|Kherson Suvorov street
Image:Kherson-05.JPG|Kherson Pharmacy
Image:Kherson-06.JPG|Kherson library
Image:Kherson-07.JPG|Kherson Bank
Image:Kherson-08.JPG|Kherson city center
Image:Kherson-09.JPG|Kherson street
Image:Kherson-10.JPG|Kherson street
Image:Kherson-Synagogue01.jpg| Kherson Synagouge
Image:Kherson-Synagogue02.jpg| Kherson Synagouge
Image:Kherson-Synagogue03.jpg| Kherson Synagouge
Image:Kherson-Synagogue04.jpg| Kherson Synagouge
Image:Kherson-Potemkin.jpg| Kherson Potemkin
Image:Kherson-Suvorov.jpg| Kherson Suvorov street
Image:Kherson-SuvorovSt.jpg|Kherson Suvorov Street
Image:Kherson-K.Marx.jpg|Kherson K.Marx sreet
Image:Kherson Church Zabalka.jpg|Kherson Church Zabalka
Image:Kherson Lenina street sign Ukraine 01.jpg|street sign
Image:Kherson Sanatorny street sign Ukraine .jpg}street sign 02
Image:Kherson New construction.jpg|new construction
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