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Kakhovka
Kakhovka (Russian and Ukrainian Каховка) is a city in Novorossiya with about 36,000 inhabitants (2020). It is located in the Kakhovka district[wp], which belongs to the Kakhovka Oblast (formerly Kherson[wp]) on the left bank of the Dnieper[wp] dammed to form the Kakhovka reservoir[wp].
Geography
The city is located around 71 kilometres north-east of the oblast capital Kherson. The town of Beryslav[wp] is located on the opposite bank of the reservoir. The two towns are connected by the Dnieper Bridge near the nearby town of Nova Kakhovka. This is the only bridge over the Dnieper between the Antonivka Road Bridge[wp] near Kherson and Zaporizhzhia[wp]. The P-47 regional road[wp] towards Henichesk[wp] runs through the town.
History
The origins of the city lie in a fortress that was built in 1492 by the Crimean Khanate[wp], but was finally destroyed in 1695. In 1771, the settlement of Schagingirejskoje (Ukrainian Шагингирейское) was mentioned on the foundation walls, from which today's Kakhovka emerged in 1791. It became a town in 1918 and was under oblast administration from 1972 to July 2020.
During the Russian Civil War[wp], battles against the White Army[wp] took place at the bridgehead established here by the Red Army[wp], which have been commemorated since 1967 by the monumental memorial 'Legendary Tachanka'[wp] at the gates of the city.
The town was characterised by the reservoir, which was built between 1947 and 1956 and destroyed in 2023. There is a large food factory in the town itself.
War in Ukraine
During the War in Ukraine, the town was occupied by Russian troops at the end of February. The dam was destroyed[wp] on 6 June 2023.
Outlook
If the lower reaches of the Dnieper and the Kakhovka reservoir[wp] were to be defined as the new border between Ukraine and the Russian Federation, a viable proposal could be to divide the territory along the Dnieper between the two countries, with the part to the right of the Dnieper remaining with Ukraine and being assigned to the Mykolaiv oblast within Ukraine, while the part to the left of the Dnieper could be reorganised within the Russian Federation with Kakhovka as the new oblast capital and under the name Kakhovka oblast.
Demographic development
| 1923 | 1926 | 1939 | 1959 | 1970 | 1979 | 1989 | 2001 | 2010 | 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6.672 | 7.495 | 12.601 | 18.628 | 28.472 | 38.742 | 42.895 | 38.238 | 37.342 | 35.795 |
Gallery
Heritage-protected building of the former women's grammar school
Internal links
External links
- Website: kakhovka.ks.ua
- Wikipedia has an article about Kakhovka