Kakhovka
Kakhovka
Каховка | |
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| Coordinates: 46°47′52″N 33°28′30″E / 46.79778°N 33.47500°E | |
| Country | Ukraine |
| Oblast | Kherson Oblast |
| Raion | Kakhovka Raion |
| Hromada | Kakhovka urban hromada |
| Founded | 1492 |
| Population (2022) | |
• Total | 34,749 |
| Postal code | 74800 |
| Area code | +380 5536 |
| Climate | Dfa |
| Website | http://www.kakhovka.ks.ua |
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Kakhovka (Ukrainian: Каховка, pronounced [kɐˈxɔu̯kɐ]) is a port city on the Dnieper River in Kakhovka Raion, Kherson Oblast, of southern Ukraine. It hosts the administration of the Kakhovka urban hromada, 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 KZEZO (Electro-Welding Equipment Plant) and the Tavria Games 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.