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Kherson - history and other useful information about Herson

Kherson - Center of Industry
Kherson is rightly considered one of the most beautiful cities in Ukraine, not least because of its ports: the Sea and, the largest on the Dnieper - river.
The city is the administrative, cultural and industrial center.
The city's population to the year 2008 increased to more than three hundred and fifty thousand people.
Between Kherson to Kiev laid railway length 648 kilometers, the train goes through Znamenka and Nikolaev.
Kherson - this is a serious city for trade routes. Here are concentrated and railway junctions, and river ports, and bus stations.
In Ukraine, the largest metropolitan area not.

History of modern Kherson
Kherson got its name during the reign of Catherine the second, or more precisely, her favorite GA Potemkin.
Should guess that this city since the project was dubbed "the cradle of the Black Sea Fleet," the core of New Russia in the sphere of economics and politics.
In the construction of Kherson participate all possible employees with strong hands: the sailors, convicts and soldiers, and voluntary wage workers, who came from other cities.
Kherson seen many rulers and changed their laws, but built strong hands of the people, it is not cracked in half and broke into half-areas.
At the end of the civil war began immediately hard work aimed at the restoration of the industrial part of the city.
And already in the twenties Kherson again rises to a high status - the center of Kherson region.
According to the city allowed buses, took the start confectionery, cotton processing and canneries.
At that time in Kherson was built the country's largest grain elevator. The plan was to complete the refinery.
But with the beginning of the Great Patriotic War the industry had been evacuated to the east napravlenii.Herson was in occupation from August 1941 to March 1944.

After painstaking and careful attitude to their city, the desire to restore the lost and make life better for the next generation to run the first year 1960m trolley route. Kherson survived, got up and got the lead link southern Ukraine, as industrial agriculture and cultural center.

By 1978, in connection with the anniversary on his chest shone Kherson Red Banner of Labor Order of Merit.
And in the 2006, the "nominal increase" from heaven, "Kherson" airport was transferred to the status of international airport.

Districts of Kherson
In Kherson there are three administrative districts.
The central city district called Suvorovskiy. Responsible for industry - Komsomolskiy district and industry - Dniprovskiy district.
In the lives of 9 cities, three cities of regional security, 658 settlements, villages, towns and 30 urban areas.

Attractions Kherson
In Kherson going. They come to see the city, learn about its history, to touch the monuments of culture and architecture. The main attractions of the city is the numerous churches and monasteries, each with its fascinating and exciting, of course sad, but very interesting history.
Kherson keeps its roots. Debris, the remains of the boulders and the fortress gates since the 18th century, as if glued archive placed in the golden collection of glorious sights of the city. But these fragments clearly give an idea of ​​the culture of that time and rascherchivayut its old boundaries for accurate measures in history to the days of creation and prosperity hail remembered for centuries.
In relatively good condition are Ochakovskoe gate, which displays Greek suburb. St. Catherine's Cathedral, behind the gate, erected in the holy place, which previously was a wooden church of St. Michael. Cathedral too beautiful to pass without noticing it or ignore not fit the excursion. Striking size and architectural wonders in our time affect his appearance at first glance.
Dnipro River, the history of the Greek settlers, greens, lakes, old bridges and squares, Kherson fortress necropolis Monument Kherson shipbuilders and many other causes and to book tickets in the first possible weekend, holiday or vacation, visit the mysterious beautiful place.
For fans of traveling light and alone, in the airport are local citizens offer their taxi service, and leisure in the city, excursions and of course daily rental apartment Kherson, is generally considered a necessary item. As is now becoming more and more fashionable and profitable not to settle in the hotel room, and choose for yourself one-bedroom apartment, which will cost a little more than a hundred hryvnia per day and safely be left to itself, was responsible for the leisure, food and comfort in general. There's nothing wrong with that, because to know the city, survived the ages and generations, and to remain in his high position with the proud name and a good story to it, so do not owe anything to anybody.