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Nova Kakhovka ( uk, Нова́ Кахо́вка, ; russian: Новая Каховка) is a city in the central
Kakhovka Raion
Kakhovka Raion ( uk, Каховський район) is one of the administrative raions (a ''district'') of Kherson Oblast in southern Ukraine. Its administrative center is located in the city of Nova Kakhovka. Population:
On 18 July 2020, as ...
region of Kherson Oblast in southern Ukraine
Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...
currently under Russian occupation.
Nova Kakhovka is an important port city on the east bank of the Dnieper river
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The Dnieper () or Dnipro (); , ; . is one of the major transboundary rivers of Europe, rising in the Valdai Hills near Smolensk, Russia, before flowing through Belarus and Ukraine to the Black Sea. It is the longest river of Ukraine an ...
where it meets the downstream end of the Kakhovka Reservoir
The Kakhovka Reservoir (, ''Kakhovs′ke vodoskhovyshche'') is a water reservoir on the Dnieper River in Ukraine. It was created in 1956, when the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant was built. It is one of several reservoirs in the Dnieper reserv ...
. It forms one abutment of the Kakhovsky Bridge over the hydroelectric dam
Hydroelectricity, or hydroelectric power, is electricity generated from hydropower (water power). Hydropower supplies one sixth of the world's electricity, almost 4500 TWh in 2020, which is more than all other renewable sources combined an ...
; the other is located in Beryslav
Beryslav (, ) is a city in Kherson Oblast of southern Ukraine. It serves as the administrative center for Beryslav Raion (district), housing the district's local administration buildings. Beryslav hosts the administration of Beryslav urban hrom ...
. The city lies immediately downstream of the source of the North Crimean Canal
The North Crimean Canal ( uk, Північно-Кримський канал, translit=Pivnichno-Krymskyi kanal, russian: Северо-Крымский канал, in the Soviet Union: North Crimean Canal of the Lenin's Komsomol of Ukraine) is a l ...
that irrigates the Crimean peninsula
Crimea, crh, Къырым, Qırım, grc, Κιμμερία / Ταυρική, translit=Kimmería / Taurikḗ ( ) is a peninsula in Ukraine, on the northern coast of the Black Sea, that has been occupied by Russia since 2014. It has a pop ...
and can be said to control the seat of the channel. The city's population is . The city was under occupation by Russian forces from February to November 2022.
History
Nova Kakhovka was founded on 28 February 1952, in the place where, from 1891, the village Klyucheve had existed. It was in direct proximity of the established dam of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant, one of the Soviet Union's so-called ''Great Construction Projects of Communism'', and was built to house the plant's construction workers. Since its founding, the city has been called Nova Kakhovka, or New Kakhova, to distinguish from the city ofKakhovka
Kakhovka ( uk, Кахо́вка, ) is a port city on the Dnieper River in Kakhovka Raion, Kherson Oblast, of southern Ukraine. It hosts the administration of the Kakhovka urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. It had a population of
It ...
located away. After the construction of the power plant was finished, most of the workers stayed in Nova Kakhovka.
On October 10, 1950, the management of the "Dniprobud" created a housing department, which was tasked with the construction of a new town of power engineers.
On April 20, 1951, the foundation of the first residential building on the street was laid. K. Marx, 31, and already 30 May of the same year he was put into operation.
On February 10, 1952, a train arrived from Fedorivka to Nova Kakhovka. In 9 months 154 km of railways were built. At 12 o'clock, a train with a load from Chelyabinsk, Moscow, Bryansk approached the triumphal arch, where he met thousands of builders. The railway became an important transport artery, which accelerated the construction of the hydroelectric plant, the city, suburban farms, and the entire center of the Kherson region.
On February 28, 1952, the working village of builders of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station was given the name "Nova Kakhovka" by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR
The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (russian: Президиум Верховного Совета, Prezidium Verkhovnogo Soveta) was a body of state power in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
During the fall of 1950, school 1 and school 2 were opened.
Until 18 July 2020, Nova Kakhovka was incorporated as a city of oblast significance and the center of Nova Kakhovka Municipality. The municipality as an administrative unit was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Kherson Oblast to five. The area of Nova Kakhovka Municipality was merged into Kakhovka Raion.
The city came under Russian occupation during the
The city is sometimes referred to as an oasis, because it was built on an area where sand was plentiful. During the construction of the city, the parks and sod were built and lain on the sandy ground. The architectural plans were developed to build streets and squares to harmonize perfectly with the shoreline of the reservoir.
The city is located between Kherson in the west and Melitopol in the east on the
File:Новокаховська міська рада (Нова Каховка) 03.jpg, The administrative center of Nova Kakhovka
File:Market in Nova Kakhovka.jpg, "The Central" Shopping Centre, former "Children's World"
File:Trimuphal arch over Nova Kakhovka locks.jpg, Triumphal arch over Nova Kakhovka locks
File:Naberezhna in Nova Kakhovka.jpg, The shoreline in Nova Kakhovka
File:Park Slavy in Nova Kahkovka.jpg, The Park of Glory
File:Nova Kakhovka Enerhiya Stadium 8.jpg, Enerhiya Stadium
File:Nova Kakhovka Orthodox Cathedral.jpg, Nova Kakhovka Orthodox Cathedral
The main cultural center of the city is the Palace of Culture, where there are regular performances of creative groups and folk ensembles, both local and guests from neighboring settlements.
Nova Kakhovka has a museum of local history with a permanent exhibition on the history of the city, a wine museum, a house-museum of Anatoly Bakhuta, an art gallery named after Albin Gavdzinsky, libraries, a summer theater, a cinema "Youth", which is part of the Cinema Palace.
City has three parks, squares, beaches, promenade, a large number of cafes, nightclubs, amusement park and zoo.
Official city website
Local media NK-Online
Unofficial city website with newest photos
Tavria Games Festival
{{Authority control Cities in Kherson Oblast Populated places established in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Populated places established in 1952 Cities of regional significance in Ukraine Populated places on the Dnieper in Ukraine Company towns in Ukraine Populated places of Kakhovka Reservoir 1952 establishments in the Soviet Union Kakhovka Raion
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which began in 2014. The invasion has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths on both sides. It has caused Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II. ...
. On 11 July 2022, Ukrainian forces launched a major missile strike on Russian forces in the city. On 6 August 2022, Vitaliy Hura, the Russian-appointed mayor, "was shot dead by an unidentified assailant while leaving his home." Immediately following the liberation of Kherson, Russian officials declared they would also be retreating from Nova Kakhova and urged residents to flee 15km from the frontline.
Geography
The city is sometimes referred to as an oasis, because it was built on an area where sand was plentiful. During the construction of the city, the parks and sod were built and lain on the sandy ground. The architectural plans were developed to build streets and squares to harmonize perfectly with the shoreline of the reservoir.
Climate
Modern Nova Kakhovka
Economy and transport
The economic activities in Nova Kakhovka are engineering ( electrotechnology) and power production. Near the city the largeNorth Crimean Canal
The North Crimean Canal ( uk, Північно-Кримський канал, translit=Pivnichno-Krymskyi kanal, russian: Северо-Крымский канал, in the Soviet Union: North Crimean Canal of the Lenin's Komsomol of Ukraine) is a l ...
begins, via which the southwest of the Kherson Oblast and the entire northern part of the Crimea
Crimea, crh, Къырым, Qırım, grc, Κιμμερία / Ταυρική, translit=Kimmería / Taurikḗ ( ) is a peninsula in Ukraine, on the northern coast of the Black Sea, that has been occupied by Russia since 2014. It has a pop ...
are supplied with water coming from the Dnieper River.
The city is located between Kherson in the west and Melitopol in the east on the European route E58
European route E 58 is a road part of the International E-road network. It begins in Vienna, Austria and ends in Rostov-na-Donu, Russia. It is approximately long.
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**: Vienna - Fischamend - Bruck an der Leitha
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, which runs from Odessa to Rostov-on-Don near the city. The city contains a non-electrified, one lane railroad, an airport, a water route to the Black Sea
The Black Sea is a marginal mediterranean sea of the Atlantic Ocean lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia. It is bounded by Bulgaria, Georgia, Rom ...
, and a port
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which is located on the southwest part of the Khakovka Reservoir.
Administrative divisions
The Nova Kakhovka city has a small city and an urban type village within it, as well as eight small villages in the outlying area. *Small towns and urban type villages: Tavriysk, Dnipryany *Villages and rural type settlements: Korsunka, Maslivka, Novy Laheri, Obryvky, Pischane, Plodove, Raiske, TopolivkaCities attractions
*Park of Stepan Faldzinsky, the Park Architecture Monument, is named after the native Polish ofPodolie
Podolie ( hu, Felsőleszéte) is a village and municipality in Nové Mesto nad Váhom District in the Trenčín Region of western Slovakia.
History
In historical records the village was first mentioned in 1332.
Geography
The municipality lies ...
, the agrarian Stepan Faldzinsky who created the green oasis at the Oleshky Sands.
View of Nova Kakhovka
Culture
The main cultural center of the city is the Palace of Culture, where there are regular performances of creative groups and folk ensembles, both local and guests from neighboring settlements.
Nova Kakhovka has a museum of local history with a permanent exhibition on the history of the city, a wine museum, a house-museum of Anatoly Bakhuta, an art gallery named after Albin Gavdzinsky, libraries, a summer theater, a cinema "Youth", which is part of the Cinema Palace.
City has three parks, squares, beaches, promenade, a large number of cafes, nightclubs, amusement park and zoo.
Sports
The city has three sports schools for children and youth, 21 gyms, 110 sports grounds, a water sports base, 13 tennis courts. Novokakhovska Tennis School is one of the best tennis schools in Ukraine. Well-known tennis players of Ukraine and the world: men – Andriy Shashkov, Maksym Dubov, Serhiy Yaroshenko, Serhiy Vergun, Oleksandr Maksymov, Dmytro Biletsky, women – Motobol Natalia Biletska, Yuliana Fedak, Halyna Furgailo. The school is also famous for its coaches – Serhiy Zhytsky (Honored Coach of Ukraine), Serhiy Korovaiko, Andriy Dubov, Tetyana Furgailo, Olga Kushnirenko, Anatoliy Biletsky. "Energia" City Stadium promotes development of popular sports – motoball and soccer. Motorcyclists won silver medals in the championship of Ukraine in 2001, and the football team FC Enerhiya Nova Kakhovka during its existence won the regional cup 21 times and 25 times was the champion in the regional championship. Thanks to the "Dynamo" archery sports complex, which allows 70 athletes to enter the shooting range at the same time, Nova Kakhovka holds the championships of Ukraine and the Cup of Ukraine. The team of archers of Nova Kakhovka took the eighth place at the championship of Ukraine in 2002. Among the famous archers raised by Nova Kakhovka – Tamara Literova, Vadim Reznikov, Lyudmila Arzhannikova, Anastasia Pavlova. Currently, the city has developed children's and youth basketball, thanks to the pupils of coach Dzyubenko N. Z., who worthily and systematically defends the honor of the city at regional competitions. Its graduates play in professional teams of Kyiv, Dnipro, Cherkasy, Odesa, and Poltava.Media of Nova Kakhovka
Нова Каховка.City – online city publication, created in October 2017 by the staff of the public organization "Center for the Development of Deaf Children" and Local Media Development Agency "Abo". In Nova Kakhovka 5 weekly newspapers are published: municipal "Nova Kakhovka" (founded by the city council) and private "Novyny Dilovi", "Klyuchi", "Dniprovsikyi prospect", "Tavriiski chas". Radio broadcasting services in the city are provided by the Novokakhovka City Radio Organization.Notable people
* Lyudmila Arzhannikova – world and European champion in archery. * Anatoliy Bakhuta – Ukrainian poet, laureate of the international literary prize named after Aleksei Kruchonykh. * Valeryi Borzov – two-timeOlympic Champion
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in Athletics
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* Valeriy Vakhnenko (1957—2016) – officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, participant in the Russo-Ukrainian war
The Russo-Ukrainian War; uk, російсько-українська війна, rosiisko-ukrainska viina. has been ongoing between Russia (alongside Russian separatists in Ukraine) and Ukraine since February 2014. Following Ukraine's Rev ...
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* Albin Gavdinsky – Ukrainian artist.
* Oleh Golyanovsky (b. 1957) – Ukrainian doctor.
* Constantine Gubka – Honored Master of Sports, 5-time world champion in kickboxing.
* Oleksandr Gunko – Ukrainian poet, journalist, and public figure.
* Maxim Dondyuk – Ukrainian documentary filmmaker.
* Snizhana Egorova – Ukrainian actress and TV presenter.
* Hennadiy Zuev (b. 1975) – Ukrainian coach in athletics, master of sports of Ukraine in athletics. Honored Coach of Ukraine, Honored Worker of Physical Culture and Sports of Ukraine.
* Viktor Kislovsky – fighter of the 5th Company of the Volunteer Battalion of the Dnipro-1 Regiment
The "Dnipro-1" Regiment ( uk, Полк «Дніпро-1») is a Special Tasks Patrol Police of Ukraine, Special Tasks Patrol Police regiment subordinated to Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. The regiment is based in Dnipro.
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* Tamara Literova – champion of USSR
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in archery.
* Anastasia Vladislavovna – European champion and participant of the XXXI Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
* Denys Perepelytsia – soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, participant in the Russo-Ukrainian war
The Russo-Ukrainian War; uk, російсько-українська війна, rosiisko-ukrainska viina. has been ongoing between Russia (alongside Russian separatists in Ukraine) and Ukraine since February 2014. Following Ukraine's Rev ...
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* Vadym Reznikov – Soviet Ukrainian archery coach.
* Stepan Faldinsky (1883—1967) – gardener, park decorator, and creator of the city park.
* Serhiy Chukhray – three-time Olympic Champion
This article includes lists of all Olympic medalists since 1896, organized by each Olympic sport or discipline, and also by Olympiad.
Medalist with most medals by sport Summer Olympic sports
Winter Olympic sports
A. Including military patrol e ...
in rowing
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Twin towns
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External links
Official city website
Local media NK-Online
Unofficial city website with newest photos
Tavria Games Festival
{{Authority control Cities in Kherson Oblast Populated places established in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Populated places established in 1952 Cities of regional significance in Ukraine Populated places on the Dnieper in Ukraine Company towns in Ukraine Populated places of Kakhovka Reservoir 1952 establishments in the Soviet Union Kakhovka Raion