Kherson
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| Oblast | Kherson Oblast | ||
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| Area | 300 kм² | ||
| Population - city - density | 303,900 (2004) 1,081 /km² | ||
| Founded | 1778 | ||
| Latitude Longitude | 46°38′N 32°35′E | ||
| Area code | +380 55 | ||
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Kherson (Russian and Ukrainian: 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.
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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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Constructions
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Famous people from Kherson
- Larisa Latynina, a Soviet gymnast who was the first female athlete to win nine Olympic gold medals
- Moshe Sharett, the second Prime Minister of Israel (1953-1955)
- Sergey Stanishev, a Chairman of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP).
- Mircea Ionescu-Quintus, a politician, writer, and jurist
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Places of interest
 Memorial |
 The Dnieper near Kherson |
 Kherson Oblast building |
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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 | |
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