Beryslav

Beryslav is a city in Kherson Oblast in southern Ukraine, on the right bank of the Dnieper River opposite Kakhovka. It is the administrative centre of Beryslav Raion and of the Beryslav urban hromada, and it had an estimated 11,895 inhabitants in 2022. The place is listed among the Historical Populated Places of Ukraine as the oldest settlement in the oblast. In the late fourteenth century it was a customs point of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania on the trade route between Caffa and Kyiv, later a Polish and Cossack fortress, and then the Ottoman fortress of Kazikermen, which Cossack forces sacked in 1695. After the settlement was re-established in 1784 it took the name Beryslav. Its historic Dnieper crossing was altered by the creation of the Kakhovka Reservoir, and the city was occupied in 2022 and recaptured by Ukrainian forces on 11 November.