Kherson () is a city in southern Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Kherson Oblast (province), and is designated as its own separate raion (district) within the oblast. Kherson is an important port on the Black Sea and Dnieper River, and the home of a major ship-building industry.

The current estimated population is 303,900 (as of 2004).

History

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Until 1774, the region belonged to the Crimean Khanate. The city Cherson 1778 of the Russian Zarin Katharina II. on suggestion of the prince Grigori A. Potjomkin beside the 1737-39 built Russian attachment plant Alexanderschanze based. 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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