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Kherson
Kherson (Ukrainian Херсон) is a city in southern Ukraine, the capital of Khersons'ka 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.
It 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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