Kakhovka is a port city on the Dnieper River in Kakhovka Raion of Kherson Oblast in southern Ukraine, and the seat of the Kakhovka urban hromada. It is home to the KZEZO Electro-Welding Equipment Plant and the Tavria Games festival, and it gave its name to the Soviet-built Kakhovka Dam and to the reservoir that had flooded the Great Meadow until the dam was destroyed in June 2023 during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The city has been under Russian occupation since February 2022. Its population was estimated at 34,749 in 2022.
Facts
Founding Year Elevation (m) Elevation Band Sources
1. citypopulation.de: Ukraine: Provinces and Major Cities (citypopulation.de)
citypopulation.deTable row, estimate 2022-01-01
Kachovka [ Kakhovka ] Каховка CHE 38,742 42,895 38,238 37,316 34,749 1154
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View the Source 2. Kakhovka (Wikipedia)
History
in 1791 the Russian Colonel D.M. Kulikovsky built in place of former Crimean fortress the trade town of Kakhovka
Part Of: Ukraine, Lead, location
is a port city on the Dnieper River in Kakhovka Raion, Kherson Oblast, of southern Ukraine
View the Source3. Opentopodata: SRTM 90 m elevation at 46.79778,33.47500 for Kakhovka (Opentopodata)
OpentopodataAPI response, elevation bandQuote, API response, elevation band
"elevation": 31.0
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