Kakhovka

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Kakhovka
Каховка
City of regional significance
Flag of Kakhovka
Flag
Coat of arms of Kakhovka
Coat of arms
Kakhovka is located in Kherson Oblast
Kakhovka
Kakhovka
Location of Skadovsk
Coordinates: 46°47′52″N 33°28′30″E / 46.79778°N 33.47500°E / 46.79778; 33.47500Coordinates: 46°47′52″N 33°28′30″E / 46.79778°N 33.47500°E / 46.79778; 33.47500
Country Ukraine
Oblast Kherson Oblast
RaionCity of Kakhovka
Founded1791
Population
 (2021)
 • TotalDecrease 35,400
Postal code
74800
Area code(s)+380 5536
ClimateDfa
Websitehttp://www.kakhovka.ks.ua

Kakhovka (Ukrainian: Каховка, Russian: Кахо́вка) is a port city on the Dnieper River in Kherson Oblast (province) of southern Ukraine. Serving as the administrative center of Kakhovka Raion (district), it is administratively incorporated as a city of oblast significance and does not belong to the raion. Population: 35,400 (2021 est.)[1]

It is home to the (Electro-Welding Equipment Plant) as well as the festival.

History[]

In 1492 Meñli I Giray established a fortress near the site of today's Kakhovka called İslâm Kermen (later also called Shagin-Girei, presumably after Şahin Giray). Along with Ğazı Kermen (today Beryslav on opposite side of Dnieper) it served as fortresses that were controlling movement along Dnieper as well as lookout posts for the main Or Qapı (today Perekop) fortress. It was frequently attacked by Cossacks and was finally destroyed by them under the leadership of Ivan Mazepa in 1695. In 1791 the Russian Colonel D.M. Kulikovsky founded the trade town of Kakhovka. Kakhovka was situated in the Tauria district. In 1848 the town obtained city rights. In the 1870s–90s the town was renowned for having a huge population of low-income contractors (batraki). According to , a Russian economist, between 20,000 and 40,000 batraki would gather in the city at the one time, 80% of them males.

In December 1918, by the decision of the administration of the Dnipro povit (uyezd), Kakhovka was declared a city. In August 1920, during the final push in the Russian Civil War to drive the Whites under Wrangel out of the Crimea, Ieronim Uborevich established a bridgehead as part of the Northern Taurida Operation at Kakhovka, which became the site of fierce battles, which Evan Mawdsley described as "probably the closest the Civil War came to world war trench fighting."[2]

Tachanka monument

During World War II, Kakhovka was captured by the Wehrmacht on August 30, 1941 as part of Operation Barbarossa. It was retaken by the 4th Ukrainian Front during the in the Battle of the Dnieper on November 2, 1943.

In 1972 the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR gave the city the rank of "city of oblast subordinance" within Kherson Oblast.

Cultural influence[]

The 1935 film Three Friends (Три товарища) included the song "Kakhovka" (words by Mikhail Svetlov and music by Isaak Dunayevsky), which became very well known, especially the refrain "Мы мирные люди, но наш бронепоезд/ Стоит на запасном пути" ("We are peaceful people, but our armored train/ Stands [ready] on the siding"). Svetlov chose the site of the little-known Civil War battle for his song because he had grown up nearby and had known the town during the war.[3]

Notable people[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Чисельність наявного населення України (Actual population of Ukraine)" (PDF) (in Ukrainian). State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Retrieved 11 July 2021.
  2. ^ Evan Mawdsley, The Russian Civil War, (Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2008), p. 268.
  3. ^ "Песня о Каховке".
  4. ^ name="Profile - Olia Hercules">Fox, Killian (28 December 2014). "Rising stars of 2015: chef Olia Hercules". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 December 2016.

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