Nova Kakhovka

A village named Klisheve was founded at the site of modern Nova Kakhovka in 1891. Nova Kakhovka proper was founded in 1951 in connection with the building of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant (KHPP), on the site of the former Klisheve.{{Cite web |title=Nova Kakhovka |url=https://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CN%5CO%5CNovaKakhovka.htm |access-date=2023-11-15 |website=www.encyclopediaofukraine.com}}

The KHPP dam was one of the Soviet Union's Great Construction Projects of Communism. The new city was built to house the plant's construction workers. It was given the name Nova Kakhovka, or New Kakhovka, by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet to distinguish it from the city Kakhovka located {{cvt|15|km|mi}} away.{{cn|date=November 2023}}

Schools 1 and 2 opened in the fall of 1950, and on 10 October, the Dniprobud administration created a housing department tasked with building a new town of hydroelectric engineers.{{cite web |url=http://novakahovka.com.ua/index.php?t=1&id=8 |title=History of the creation of our city, part 1 |language=uk |access-date=28 February 2019 |archive-date=1 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190301013419/http://novakahovka.com.ua/index.php?t=1&id=8 |url-status=dead }} By 20 April 1951, the foundation of the first residential building, at Karl Marx, 31, had been laid, followed by the building's opening on 30 May.

In nine months, 154 km of railways were built, and on 10 February 1952, a train from Fedorivka arrived in Nova Kakhovka. At noon, a freight train originating in Chelyabinsk, Moscow, Bryansk approached the triumphal arch, where it was met by thousands of construction workers before delivering its load directly to a construction site. The railway became an important transportation artery, accelerating the construction of the hydroelectric plant, city, suburban farms, and the entire middle portion of the Kherson region.{{cite web |url=http://novakahovka.com.ua/index.php?t=1&g=67&id=9 |title=History of the creation of our city, part 2 |language=uk |access-date=28 February 2019 |archive-date=1 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190301135850/http://novakahovka.com.ua/index.php?t=1&g=67&id=9 |url-status=dead }} After the completion of the power plant, most of the workers stayed in Nova Kakhovka.{{cn|date=November 2023}}

Originally destined to remain a small 20,000-person city of hydroelectric engineers, Nova Kakhovka possessed broad development prospects beyond a highly skilled and experienced population due to its central location in Kherson region and access to cheap electricity, railways, highways and waterways, which opened the way to large-tonnage ships from the mouth of the Dnieper to the Pripyat.

Until 18 July 2020, Nova Kakhovka was incorporated as a city of oblast significance and the center of Nova Kakhovka Municipality. The municipality as an administrative unit was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Kherson Oblast to five, and it was merged into Kakhovka Raion.{{Cite news |title=Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ. |trans-title=Regarding the formation and liquidation of districts. Resolution of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine No. 807-IX. |url=http://www.golos.com.ua/article/333466 |access-date=2020-10-03 |date=2020-07-18 |website=Голос України |language=uk}}{{cite web |title=Нові райони: карти + склад |trans-title=New areas: maps + warehouse |date=17 July 2020 |url=https://www.minregion.gov.ua/press/news/novi-rajony-karty-sklad/ |publisher=Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України |language=Ukrainian}}

{{further|2022 attack on Nova Kakhovka|Destruction of the Kakhovka Dam}}

{{see also|Russian occupation of Kherson Oblast}}

The Russian occupation of Nova Kakhovka in Ukraine began on 24 February 2022, with explosions and shelling from the direction of occupied Crimea. Russian troops quickly took control of the city and its key infrastructure, including the hydroelectric power plant and canal. A family attempting to flee the city was shot by Russian troops on the dam of the power plant.{{Cite news |date=2022-02-26 |title=Images show Russian forces near Ukrainian hydroelectric power plant -Maxar |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/images-show-russian-forces-near-ukrainian-hydroelectric-power-plant-maxar-2022-02-26/ |access-date=2023-02-10}}

Over the next few months, the city was occupied by Russian forces, and the population was subjected to pro-Russian rallies and the reopening of a Lenin monument. Ukrainian troops responded with acts of resistance, destroying Russian military units and ammunition warehouses,{{Cite web |title=Russian forces disperse rally in Kherson and Russian \"rally\" fails in Nova Kakhovka |url=https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/04/10/7338600/index.amp |access-date=2023-02-10 |website=www.pravda.com.ua}} though they were unable to put an end to the Russian presence in Nova Kakhovka.{{cn|date=November 2023}}

On 9 January 2023, Russian occupation forces ordered the closing of several area hospitals, and on 20 January, the city hospital was shelled. This was followed by more mortar attacks, leading to a partial loss of electricity and damage to residential buildings.{{Cite web |date=2023-02-01 |title=Russians want to move all healthcare workers out of the Kakhovka district - Центр національного спротиву |url=https://sprotyv.mod.gov.ua/en/2023/02/01/russians-want-to-move-all-healthcare-workers-out-of-the-kakhovka-district/ |access-date=2023-02-10 |website=sprotyv.mod.gov.ua |language=en-US |archive-date=10 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230210163030/https://sprotyv.mod.gov.ua/en/2023/02/01/russians-want-to-move-all-healthcare-workers-out-of-the-kakhovka-district/ |url-status=dead }}

On 6 June, the Kakhovka Dam was breached, causing extensive flooding and prompting mass evacuations.{{cite news |last= |first= |date=6 June 2023 |title=A visual guide to the collapse of Ukraine's Nova Kakhovka dam |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/06/visual-guide-collapse-ukraine-nova-kakhovka-dam |work=The Guardian |access-date=8 June 2023}}

File:Landsat Nova Kakhovka.JPG {{wide image|Каховская ГЭС.jpg|1373px|Panorama of the Kakhovka Reservoir and the city's hydroelectric plant}}

The city is sometimes referred to as an oasis because it was built on an area where sand was plentiful. During the city's construction, sod was brought in to build its parks directly on the sandy ground. Architectural plans were developed to build streets and squares in harmony with the reservoir shoreline.

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Distribution of the population by ethnic groups according to the 2001 Ukrainian census:{{cite web | url=https://datatowel.in.ua/pop-composition/ethnic-cities | title=Національний склад міст }}

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Native languages according to the 2001 Ukrainian census:{{cite web | url=https://socialdata.org.ua/projects/mova-2001/ | title=Рідні мови в об'єднаних територіальних громадах України }}

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The main economic activities in Nova Kakhovka are engineering (electrotechnology) and power production. Near the city, the large North Crimean Canal begins, supplying southwest Kherson Oblast and the entire northern part of the Crimea with water from the Dnieper River.

File:Park Nova Kakhovka.jpg

The city is located between Kherson in the west and Melitopol to the east, near European route E58, which runs from Odesa to Rostov-on-Don. The city has a non-electrified, one-track railway, an airport, a water route to the Black Sea, and a port located on the southwest part of the Khakovka Reservoir.

Stepan Faldzinsky Park, a designated protected natural area, is named after the native Polish agrarian from Podolie who created the green oasis at the Oleshky Sands. The city is also known for its "stone emroidery" - exterior moulding with traditional Ukrainian patterns done in 1953-1955 by a group of Boychukist artists.

File:Новокаховська міська рада (Нова Каховка) 03.jpg|The administrative center of Nova Kakhovka

File:Market in Nova Kakhovka.jpg|The Central shopping centre, formerly Children's World

File:Triumphal arch over Nova Kakhovka locks.jpg|Triumphal arch over the Nova Kakhovka locks

File:Naberezhna in Nova Kakhovka.jpg|The shoreline in Nova Kakhovka

File:Park Slavy in Nova Kahkovka.jpg|The Park of Glory

File:Nova Kakhovka Enerhiya Stadium 8.jpg|Enerhiya Stadium

File:Nova Kakhovka Orthodox Cathedral.jpg|Nova Kakhovka Orthodox Cathedral

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The main cultural center of Nova Kakhovka is the Palace of Culture, which hosts regular performances of creative groups and folk ensembles, both local and from neighboring areas.

Nova Kakhovka has a museum of local history with a permanent exhibition on the history of the city, a wine museum, the house-museum of Anatoly Bakhuta, an art gallery named after Albin Gavdzinsky, libraries, a summer theater, and the "Youth" cinema, part of the Cinema Palace.

The city has three parks, squares, beaches, promenade, numerous cafés, nightclubs, a zoo and amusement park.

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Nova Kakhovka has three sports schools for children and youth, 21 gyms, 110 sports grounds, a water sports base, and 13 tennis courts.

The Novokakhovska Tennis School is one of the best in Ukraine and well-known graduates include not only male (Andriy Shashkov, Maksym Dubov, Serhiy Yaroshenko, Serhiy Vergun, Oleksandr Maksymov and Dmytro Biletsky) and female players (Motobol Natalia Biletska, Yuliana Fedak and Halyna Furgailo) but also coaches (Serhiy Zhytsky, an Honored Coach of Ukraine, Serhiy Korovaiko, Andriy Dubov, Tetyana Furgailo, Olga Kushnirenko and Anatoliy Biletsky).

The Energia City Stadium hosts popular sports such as motoball and soccer. Motorcyclists won silver medals in the 2001 Ukrainian championship, and the FC Enerhiya Nova Kakhovka football team has won the regional cup 21 times and the regional championship 25 times.

Nova Kakhovka's Dynamo archery complex can simultaneously hold 70 archers on the shooting range, and the city has won the archery championships of Ukraine and the Cup of Ukraine. The city's archery team took eighth place at the 2002 championship of Ukraine. Among the city's more famous archers are Tamara Literova, Vadim Reznikov, Lyudmila Arzhannikova and Anastasia Pavlova.

Nova Kakhovka has also developed children's and youth basketball programs with the assistance of coaches like Dzyubenko N. Z., whose students have represented the city at regional competitions. The city's basketball players are part of professional teams in Kyiv, Dnipro, Cherkasy, Odesa, and Poltava.

Five weekly newspapers are published in Nova Kakhovka: the Nova Kakhovka (founded by the city council) and the private Novyny Dilovi, Klyuchi, Dniprovsikyi Prospect and Tavriiski chas publications.

Нова Каховка.City is an online city publication created in October 2017 by the Center for the Development of Deaf Children and the Abo local media development agency.{{Cite web |title=Novakahovka.City – про що наш сайт і хто ми |trans-title=Novakahovka.City - what our site is about and who we are |url=https://novakahovka.city/read/blog/430/novakahovka-city-pro-scho-nash-sajt-i-hto-mi |website=Нова Каховка.City |access-date=2020-01-16 |language=uk}}

Radio broadcasting services in the city are provided by the Novokakhovka City Radio Organization.

• Lyudmila Arzhannikova – world and European archery champion
• {{ill|Anatoliy Bakhuta|uk|Бахута Анатолій Павлович}} – Ukrainian poet, laureate of the international literary prize named after Aleksei Kruchonykh
• Valeriy Borzov – two-time Olympic champion in athletics
• Sergei Chukhray – three-time Olympic champion in rowing
• Maxim Dondyuk – Ukrainian documentary filmmaker
• {{ill|Snizhana Egorova|uk|Єгорова Сніжана Олександрівна}} – Ukrainian actress and television presenter
• {{ill|Stepan Faldinsky|uk|Фалдзінський Степан Маркович}} (1883-1967) – gardener, park decorator, and creator of the city park
• {{ill|Albin Gavdinsky|uk|Ґавдзінський Альбін Станіславович}} – Ukrainian artist
• {{ill|Oleh Golyanovsky|uk|Голяновський Олег Володимирович}} (b. 1957) – Ukrainian doctor
• Constantine Gubka – Merited Master of Sports title-holder and five-time kickboxing world champion
• {{ill|Oleksandr Gunko|uk|Гунько Олександр Петрович}} – Ukrainian poet, journalist and public figure
• {{ill|Viktor Kislovsky|uk|Кісловський Віктор Олександрович}} – served in the 5th Company of the Dnipro-1 Regiment's Volunteer Battalion. Killed in action.
• Tamara Literova – Soviet archery champion
• {{ill|Denys Perepelytsia|uk|Перепелиця Денис Сергійович}} – Armed Forces of Ukraine soldier, fought in the Russo-Ukrainian War, killed in action.
• {{ill|Vadym Reznikov|uk|Резников Вадим Григорович}} – Soviet Ukrainian archery coach
• {{ill|Valeriy Vakhnenko|uk|Вахненко Валерій Анатолійович}} (1957-2016) – Armed Forces of Ukraine officer who fought in the Russo-Ukrainian war
• Anastasia Pavlova – European champion archer who competed in the XXXI Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro{{Cite web |url=http://nk-online.com.ua/novokahovchanka-anastasiya-pavlova-vyborola-zoloto-na-chempionati-ukrayiny-zi-strilby-z-luka/ |title=Новокаховчанка Анастасія Павлова виборола "золото" на Чемпіонаті України зі стрільби з лука |trans-title=Anastasiya Pavlova from Novokakhov won "gold" at the Archery Championship of Ukraine |work=nk-online.com.ua |access-date=16 July 2021 |archive-date=25 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210425194335/http://nk-online.com.ua/novokahovchanka-anastasiya-pavlova-vyborola-zoloto-na-chempionati-ukrayiny-zi-strilby-z-luka/ |url-status=dead }}
• {{ill|Hennadiy Zuev|uk|Зуєв Геннадій Володимирович}} (b. 1975) – Honored Coach of Ukraine, Master of Sports title-holder and Honored Worker of Physical Culture and Sports of Ukraine

• Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, France

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