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Kherson in Ukraine

Wednesday, 14 June 2023 - 11:00 am (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union
Category/Kategorie: General Reading Time:  3 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post Kherson is a port city in Ukraine that serves as the administrative centre of Kherson Oblast. Located by the Black Sea and on the Dnieper River, Kherson is the home to a major shipbuilding industry and is a regional economic centre. It had a population of 280.000 in 2022. At the beginning of 2023, the remaining population was estimated at around 40,000 people.

From March to November 2022, the city was occupied by Russian forces during their invasion of Ukraine (Russo-Ukrainian War). Ukrainian forces recaptured the city on 11 November 2022. In June 2023, the city was flooded following the destruction of the nearby Kakhovka Dam.

Among the main sights are:

• The Church of St. Catherine – was built in the 1780s, supposedly to Ivan Starov‘s designs, and contains the tomb of Prince Grigory Potemkin.
• Jewish cemetery – Kherson has a large Jewish community which was established in the mid-nineteenth century (History of the Jews in Ukraine).
• Kherson TV Tower
• Adziogol Lighthouse, a hyperboloid structure designed by Vladimir Shukhov in 1911
• The Kherson Art Museum has a collection of icons, and Ukrainian and Russian paintings and sculptures. Particularly noteworthy are Portrait of a Woman (1883) by Konstantin Makovsky; The Tempest is Coming by Ivan Aivazovsky; Sunset by Alexei Savrasov; Cattle Yard in Abramtsevo by Vasily Polenov; At the Stone by Ivan Kramskoi; The Charioteer, by Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg (sculptor); Prince Svyatoslav by Eugene Lanceray (sculptor); Mephistopheles by Mark Antokolsky (sculptor); Near the Monastery by German painter August von Bayer (1859); Oaks (1956); Moloditsya (1938) and Still Life with the Blue Broom (1930), by Oleksii Shovkunenko (born in Kherson).

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