Kherson is a picturesque city in the mouth of the Dnieper, but the main reason for coming here is not in Kherson itself, but in its unique surroundings. This place is an ideal starting point for the Askania-Nova reserve, as well as several other less spectacular but closer-lying sights.

Climate

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Weather forecast in Kherson for 10 days

How to get

Kherson lies on the main railway (12 hours) and Simferopol (7 hours), in addition, to the capital of the country from here you can get there by bus for 12 hours and 100 hryvnia.

Private minibuses every half hour depart from Kherson to Nikolaev (15 hryvnia and 1 hour 15 minutes) and every hour - to Odessa (25-30 hryvnia and 2.5 hours) to 8 pm. Trains and intercity buses to Odessa also run, but they take much more time en route.

The railway station is on Ushakov Avenue, which can be reached by bus or trolleybus from the city center. To the bus station, look for bus number 6.

The fare is indicated in May 2011.

Entertainment, excursions and attractions of Kherson

In the city itself, the main attraction is the picturesque remains of the ramparts and the gates of the fortress of the 18th century, as well as the cozy historical center of the 19th century. Special attention should be paid to the building of the Black Sea Hospital (1803-1810), which was built by the famous architect Andrei Zakharov. Attracts the Admiralty arsenal of the late 18th century, as well as the nearby "Kazeny Park" - the park of the regional lyceum, founded in 1868.

The city has a lot of monuments of religious architecture, for example, the charming Spassky Cathedral (1781) with the bell tower, the Chabad synagogue at the end of 19 century, the Church of St. Alexandra and the ancient Greco-Sophia Cathedral in 1780. If there is an extra hour and a half, take a walk to the Holy Assumption, St. Catherine's and Svyatodukhivsky Cathedral with the bell tower of 1836. Finally, one of the oldest churches in the city is Nikolaevskaya (1819).

Kherson TV tower and Adzhigol grid steel lighthouse built by Shukhov in 1910 - this unique hyperboloid design reaches a height of 70 meters. Kherson also boasts a couple of noteworthy museums, for example, Literary Kherson - museum-apartment BA Lavreneva. Children, as a rule, like in the natural-ecological museum, you can look in the Kherson regional museum or the Art Museum. O. Shovkunenko

Kherson neighborhoods: Zmievka, Heroisk and Askania-Nova

But, as already mentioned, the main remarkable places of Kherson lie outside the city. One of them is the Swedish village of Zmievka, which was founded in the late 18th century by Catherine the Great. Zmiyivka is a unique corner of Sweden in Ukraine, an original architecture of the northern country against the background of the Little Russian nature. You can get here by minibus to Nova-Kakhovka, from where only 20 minutes by taxi (40 hryvnia) to the village itself.

Another interesting field trip from Kherson is a 50-minute walk by ferry to the south to Gola-Pristan (5 hryvnia, twice a day, navigation is open from April to October) - the last significant city on the Dnieper . From there the road to the west leads along picturesque "bird's corner" - the Black Sea Biosphere Reserve - to the city of Heroicu . This ancient Cossack settlement is notable not only for its history, but also for architecture, nature, original way of life . You can get from the port to Heroisk by bike, by There is only a group excursion that can be booked at the Fregat Hotel in Kherson or at the administration office in Gola-Pristan at 8-055 392 6471 (. Lermontov Street, 1) .

In the former Soviet "Intourist" "- Now the hotel Fregat (Ushakov Str., 2) is one of the largest travel agencies of the city where you can buy a tour to all these places - Zmievka, Herousk and Aksaniya Nova. Photo of Kherson (21)