Kherson Kherson Once Upon A Crime Category="Cities in Ukraine"Category="Transportation in Ukraine"[image] Kherson (Ukrainian and Russian Херсон) 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.

History

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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Places of Interest

 
Ukraine
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Subdivisions of Ukraine
Cherkasy | Chernihiv | Chernivtsi | Crimea | Dnipropetrovsk | Donetsk | Ivano-Frankivsk | Kharkiv | Kherson | Khmelnytskyi | Kiev | Kirovohrad | Luhansk | Lviv | Mykolaiv | Odessa | Poltava | Rivne | Sumy | Ternopil | Vinnytsia | Volyn | Zakarpattia | Zaporizhia | Zhytomyr
Principal cities
Cherkasy | Chernihiv | Chernivtsi | Dnipropetrovsk | Donetsk | Ivano-Frankivsk | Kharkiv | Kherson | Khmelnytskyi | Kiev | Kirovohrad | Luhansk | Lutsk | Lviv | Mykolaiv | Odessa | Poltava | Rivne | Sevastopol | Simferopol | Sumy | Ternopil | Uzhhorod | Vinnytsia | Zaporizhia | Zhytomyr