2009

Regions and Cities of Ukraine

My Town

Kherson is a southern town situated on both banks of the river Dnipro, being a large sea and river port. Nowadays

it's a modern city with wide but quiet streets, shadowy parks, squares and many places of entertainment and

sightseeing.

The population over 300 thousand people inhabit the territory of about one hundred square kilometers.

We have a glorious history. More than two centuries ago, on June 18, 1778, Catherine II signed the order to build a

fortress and a shipyard on the territory. Later on July 25, the same year the Empress gave the next order. According

to it in the autumn of that very year soldiers commanded by General Hannibal laid the first stone of the city of

Chersoneses.

Kherson is beautiful in any season. It has many historical and architectural places of interest.

Among the monuments devoted to great personalities of the past and present, one can enjoy the monuments to

admiral F. Ushakov and A. Suvorov situated in the streets named in their honor. A unique sun dial in Ushakova Street

is a monument erected in memory of John Howard, a famous English doctor who came to our city to make easier the

life of prisoners in jails.

The city's many museums and theatres are open to the visitors. There is a regional-history museum, the Museum of

Art, a planetarium. Theatre-goers have an opportunity to visit the Ukrainian Drama Theatre and a puppet theatre.

Moreover, Kherson is a scientific centre of our region. There are specialized, secondary, navigation, music schools,

colleges, institutes and universities. The population of our city has all possibilities to become well-educated.

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