Kherson
Kherson
Once Upon A Crime
<catset>Category="Cities in Ukraine"</catset><catset>Category="Transportation in Ukraine"</catset>[image] <b>Kherson</b> (<a href="Ukrainian language">Ukrainian</a> and <a href="Russian language">Russian</a> &#1061;<font face='Arial Unicode MS,Code2000'>&#1077;&#1088;&#1089;&#1086;&#1085;</font>) is a <a href="City">City</a> in southern <a href="Ukraine">Ukraine</a>, the capital of <a href="Kherson Oblast">Kherson Oblast</a>, with 303,900 inhabitants (2004). It is an important <a href="Port">Port</a> on the <a href="Black Sea">Black Sea</a> and <a href="Dnieper River">Dnieper River</a>, also a home to major <a href="Shipbuilding">ship-building</a> industry.<h2 style="margin: 0; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid #aaaaaa; font-size: 150%;">History</h2>Kherson was founded in <a href="1778">1778</a> by <a href="Grigori Alexandrovich Potemkin">Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin</a> who executed the order of Russian Empress <a href="Catherine II of Russia">Catherine the Great</a>. The city was built on place of a small fortress Aleksandr-Shants. <h2 style="margin: 0; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid #aaaaaa; font-size: 150%;">Constructions</h2><ul> <li><a href="Kherson TV Tower">Kherson TV Tower</a> </ul> <h2 style="margin: 0; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid #aaaaaa; font-size: 150%;">Places of Interest</h2><center> </center><p> <center><p><table><tr><th align=center width=100% style=" background:#ccccff"><div style="float:left; width:54px;">&nbsp;</div> <a href="Ukraine">Ukraine</a> </th><th>[image]</th></tr><tr align=center style="font-size: 90%;"><td colspan=2><b><a href="Subdivisions of Ukraine">Subdivisions of Ukraine</a></b><br><a href="Cherkasy Oblast">Cherkasy</a> | <a href="Chernihiv Oblast">Chernihiv</a> | <a href="Chernivtsi Oblast">Chernivtsi</a> | <a href="Crimea">Crimea</a> | <a href="Dnipropetrovsk Oblast">Dnipropetrovsk</a> | <a href="Donetsk Oblast">Donetsk</a> | <a href="Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast">Ivano-Frankivsk</a> | <a href="Kharkiv Oblast">Kharkiv</a> | <a href="Kherson Oblast">Kherson</a> | <a href="Khmelnytskyi Oblast">Khmelnytskyi</a> | <a href="Kiev Oblast">Kiev</a> | <a href="Kirovohrad Oblast">Kirovohrad</a> | <a href="Luhansk Oblast">Luhansk</a> | <a href="Lviv Oblast">Lviv</a> | <a href="Mykolaiv Oblast">Mykolaiv</a> | <a href="Odessa Oblast">Odessa</a> | <a href="Poltava Oblast">Poltava</a> | <a href="Rivne Oblast">Rivne</a> | <a href="Sumy Oblast">Sumy</a> | <a href="Ternopil Oblast">Ternopil</a> | <a href="Vinnytsia Oblast">Vinnytsia</a> | <a href="Volyn Oblast">Volyn</a> | <a href="Zakarpattia Oblast">Zakarpattia</a> | <a href="Zaporizhia Oblast">Zaporizhia</a> | <a href="Zhytomyr Oblast">Zhytomyr</a></td></tr><tr align=center style="font-size: 90%;"><td colspan=2><b><a href="List of cities in Ukraine">Principal cities</a></b><br><a href="Cherkasy">Cherkasy</a> | <a href="Chernihiv">Chernihiv</a> | <a href="Chernivtsi">Chernivtsi</a> | <a href="Dnipropetrovsk">Dnipropetrovsk</a> | <a href="Donetsk">Donetsk</a> | <a href="Ivano-Frankivsk">Ivano-Frankivsk</a> | <a href="Kharkiv">Kharkiv</a> | Kherson | <a href="Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine">Khmelnytskyi</a> | <a href="Kiev">Kiev</a> | <a href="Kirovohrad">Kirovohrad</a> | <a href="Luhansk">Luhansk</a> | <a href="Lutsk">Lutsk</a> | <a href="Lviv">Lviv</a> | <a href="Mykolaiv">Mykolaiv</a> | <a href="Odessa">Odessa</a> | <a href="Poltava">Poltava</a> | <a href="Rivne">Rivne</a> | <a href="Sevastopol">Sevastopol</a> | <a href="Simferopol">Simferopol</a> | <a href="Sumy">Sumy</a> | <a href="Ternopil">Ternopil</a> | <a href="Uzhhorod">Uzhhorod</a> | <a href="Vinnytsia">Vinnytsia</a> | <a href="Zaporizhzhia">Zaporizhia</a> | <a href="Zhytomyr">Zhytomyr</a></td></tr></table><p></center><p>