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Kakhovka

Kakhovka (Ukrainian: Каховка, pronounced) is a portcity on the Dnieper River in Kakhovka Raion, Kherson Oblast, of southern Ukraine. It hosts the administration of the , one of the hromadas of Ukraine. It had a population of 34,749 (2022 estimate). Kakhovka has been under Russian occupation since February 2022.
It is home to the and the festival. Kakhovka gives its name to the Soviet-built Kakhovka Dam, which was destroyed in June 2023 during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the reservoir that had until then flooded the Great Meadow.