Kherson is a city in southern
Ukraine. It is the administrative center
of the Kherson province, and is designated
as its own separate 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 358,000
(as of 2007). Until 1774, the region belonged
to the Crimean Khanate. Kherson was founded
in 1778 by Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin,
on the orders of Catherine the Great. The
city was built on the site of a small fortress
called Aleksandr-Shants. The name Kherson
is a contraction of Chersonesos, an ancient
Greek colony founded approximately 2500
years ago in the southwestern part of Crimea.
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