Kherson

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Kherson

Total population

294,941

Coordinates46.64°, 32.61°

Demographic figures from State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Kherson is a port city in southern Ukraine that serves as the administrative centre of Kherson Oblast. Located by the Black Sea and on the Dnieper River, Kherson is the home to a major ship-building industry and is a regional economic centre. At the beginning of 2022, its population was estimated at 279,131.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

Alexei Kirichenko

Soviet politician (1908-1975)

Alexander Tsiurupa

Russian commissar (1870-1928)

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Kostyantyn Kudiyevsky

Soviet and Ukrainian writer (1923-1992)

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Ilya Levitov

Russian journalist and ethnographer

Alexander Lvovich Lishnevsky

Russian architect (1868-1942)

Yuriy Martynov

Ukrainian association football player

Yevgeniy Mikhnov-Voytenko

Russian painter (1932-1988)

Valentin Murko

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Samuil Nevelshtein

Russian artist (1903-1983)

Andriy Nesterov

Ukrainian football defender

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Vladimir Mitrofanovich Orlov

Soviet admiral (1895–1938)

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Vanda Ottovich-Volovskaya

Soviet actor (1934-2010)

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Vladimir Plakhty

Russian physicist (1939-2009)

Sergei Polunin

Ukrainian-born ballet dancer, actor and model

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Yevhen Ponomarenko

Soviet actor (1909-1994)

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Vladimir Popov

(1889-1982)

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Ukraine

• Bazargan
  776.2 mi away · pop. 9,000
• Tazeh Shahr
  847.7 mi away · pop. 8,629
• Bonab-e-Jadid
  881.1 mi away · pop. 4,430
• Parsabad
  908 mi away · pop. 81,782
• Bostanabad
  945.3 mi away · pop. 16,592
• Bahreman
  959.4 mi away · pop. 738
• Sareyn
  980.2 mi away · pop. 5,459
• Nir
  982.5 mi away · pop. 4,818
• Ardabil
  984.9 mi away · pop. 482,632
• Saqqez
  1005.4 mi away · pop. 140,000
• Subatan
  1015.4 mi away
• Talesh
  1030.1 mi away · pop. 54,178

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Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Kherson

City Maps Kherson Ukraine

James McFee · 2017

Vacation Goose Travel Guide Kherson Ukraine

Francis Morgan · 2017

The 2005 Economic and Product Market Databook for Kherson, Ukraine

2005

The 2006 Economic and Product Market Databook for Kherson, Ukraine

Philip M. Parker · 2006

Information and Communication Technologies in Education, Research, and Industrial Applications

Vadim Ermolayev · 2013

ICT in Education, Research, and Industrial Applications

Vadim Ermolayev · 2013

ICTERI 2021 Workshops

Oleksii Ignatenko · 2022

Revoli︠u︡t︠s︡ionnai︠a︡ borʹba na Khersonshchine v 1905-1907 gg

N. A. Danilenko · 1962

Search results from Open Library.

Recently spotted species

Death's Head Hawkmoth

Acherontia atropos

Seen 2026-09-10

Caspian Whipsnake

Dolichophis caspius

Seen 2026-09-09

Mammoth Scoliid Wasp

Regiscolia maculata

Seen 2026-08-26

Wasp Spider

Argiope bruennichi

Seen 2026-08-08

Knot Grass Moth

Acronicta rumicis

Seen 2026-08-04

Wood Leopard Moth

Zeuzera pyrina

Seen 2026-07-13

Brown Marmorated Stink Bug

Halyomorpha halys

Seen 2026-07-11

Aegomorphus clavipes

Aegomorphus clavipes

Seen 2026-06-29

common stinkhorn

Phallus impudicus

Seen 2026-06-24

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).