Kherson

Kherson (Ukrainian and Russian ??????) is a city in southern Ukraine, the capital of Kherson Oblast, with 303,900 inhabitants (2004). It is an important port on the Black Sea and Dnieper River, also a home to major ship-building industry.

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Kherson was founded in 1778 by Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin who executed the order of Russian Empress Catherine the Great. The city was built on place of a small fortress Aleksandr-Shants.

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Ship-building (1) - Dnieper River (1) - Black Sea (1) - Catherine the Great (1) - Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin (1) - 1778 (1) - City (1) - Russian (1) - Ukrainian (1) - Port (1) - Kherson Oblast (1) - Ukraine (1) -

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