Kakhovka is a town of regional subordi nation
and the center of Kakhovka district. It is located on the left Dnipro bank
at the distance of 90 km from the regional center and 10 km from the cognominal
railway station at the route Kherson -Novovesele (Zaporizhya region).
Kakhovka was founded in 1791 at the place
of the former Turkish fortress Islam-Kermen by colonel L. M. Kulykovskyi
and was named in honor of the famous Russian soldiers, brothers Mykola and
Vasyl Ka-khovskiy. Kulykovsky's family owned Kakhovka to 1879. By that time
they turned it into a trading town, thanking considerably to an advantageous
geographical location at the trade routes junction near a well-known at
one time Tavan-skyi ferry across the Dnipro.
Due to its famed fairs of wage labour, where up
to 40 thousand workers a year gathered, Kakhovka played an important role
of a supplier of employables for the large domains of Faltz-Fein, Trubet-skoy,
Mordvynov and other landowners. It were their estates that conditioned Kherson
region's status of the main granary of Europe.
At the end of the XIX century industrial production
began its development in the town. Agricultural machines plants, as well
as a brew beer plant, distillery, timber mill, soft drinks factory appeared.
At the beginning of the XX century there were
6 schools, a hospital, a library (one of the oldest in Ukraine), cinema
and a people's house in the town. New owners of Nova Kakhovka - the merchants
Pankyeyevs, who were well-known public characters and Maecenases, favored
social and cultural development ofKakhovka.
From an untidy town, built-up with single
story clay and brick buildings, Kakhovka has changed now into a beautiful,
well-ordered and flourishing town, where over 40 thousand people live. Broad
asphalted streets, bosomed in trees in the summer, are built-up with multistory
housings.
Kakhovka has many picturesque places. But
the quay of the Kakhovka Water Storage is the most beautiful of them. Construction
of stores, summer cafes and wayside servicing centers is actively carried
out in our days, modern garden suburbs and business zones are formed.
Nowadays Kakhovka is one of the industrial
centers of Kherson region. Its products are known not only in Ukraine, but
also far abroad. The Joint-Stock Society «Kakhovka Plant of Electric Welding
Equipment)) is a leading enterprise in this sphere. Now the plant manufactures
ultramodern high-quality electric welding facilities, which compete successfully
in the world market and are supplied to almost 80 countries. The Plant produces
modern household appliances, which are in great demand, as well.
The Experimental Mechanical Plant, specialized
in production of mechanisms and machines for processing and food-processing
industries, the plant «Silhospahrehat» («Agricultural Units»), dealing with
repair of diesel engines and manufacture of spare parts for agricultural
equipment, as well as a Footwear Plant, form industrial infrastructure of
the town.
In total there are more than 550 enterprises of different patterns of ownership
in the town, this number includes small enterprises as well. Three fourths
of the town's working population is occupied in this economy complex. The
town's industrial enterprises contributed one fifth to the total output,
works executed and services rendered in 2002; almost 60 % were contributed
by the enterprises of small and medium entrepreneurship and business, about
10 % - by servicing enterprises and more than 5 % by the builders' organizations.
Development of small and medium business becomes
more and more active in Kakhovka. Nowadays this business concentrates over
60 % of assets in the current capital. It is three times as much, as those
at the big enterprises. The small and medium business develops dynamically,
brings the market structure to a new commercial level and creates working
places for the town's population. Business structures involve over 10 million
UAHs and more than 2 million dollars of external investment annually. Such
enterprises as «Petro-plast», «Metal-Design», «Stav», «Parytet» («Parity»),
«May», «Khimtekhnolohiya» («Chemical Technology») steadily provide products
for the market, increase production output and enlarge their assortment.
The building sector is represented by entrepreneurship
structures and builders' organizations. The most powerful of them are the
Joint-Stock Societies «Budmayster» («Master of construction») and the Road
Board No. 12. Kakhovka is being decorated by new servicing centers for the
town's population as well as by houses.
Nowadays 6 schools, one secondary school,
an evening school, a gymnasium, a filiation of Kherson State Technical University,
a center of training for entering higher educational institutions of Kharkiv
Aerospace Academy and clas-ses-lyceums of the Kherson Physics and Mathematics
Lyceum function in Kakhovka. A class-lyceum of the filiation of the Taras
Shevchenko Kyiv National University began
functioning as well.
The municipal charitable project «Computer class to every school» is being
successfully realized in the town. In particular the Joint-Stock Society
«Kakhovka Plant for Electric Welding Equipment» has bought a computer class
so as to provide functioning of the class-lyceum of the filiation of the
Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University.
Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine, the
Board of Education and Science of the Regional State Administration carry
out an experiment concerning the problem of educational monitoring, as a
mechanism of an adapting management of general secondary education, on the
basis of the town's schools No. 3 and 4.
The Kakhovka Municipal Culture Youth and Sports
Center is one of the basic culture establishments in the region. 6 people's
collectives, as well as 3 exemplary authors' ones, over 10 clubs and amateur
associations work here. Kakhovka became a capital of the international festival
«Ta-vria Plays», which is the most popular musical festival in Ukraine,
since 1992. 170 well-known singers from 16 world countries appeared at the
stage of the festival for the period of 12 years. The people's deputy Mykola
Bahrayev founded this festival.
Inhabitants of Kakhovka and Kherson region,
as well as people from other regions of Ukraine, know that when luminous
river liners arrive in this town, then a great and joyful holiday will start
along with a new music year. |
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