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Kherson Border Detachment
The Kherson Border Detachment (2161) is a brigade level detachment of the Eastern Department of the State Border Service of Ukraine. The detachment guards the Black Sea and the de facto " Russia-Ukraine border" in four Raions (Skadovsk Raion,Henichesk Raion, Kherson Raion and Kakhovka Raion) of Kherson Oblast and one Raion (Mykolaiv Raion) of Mykolaiv Oblast. The detachment guards border length of 506.8 km, 306.8 km on land, 180 km on river and 20 km on lake. History Service in Soviet Union The detachment was established on 30 June 1938, on the basis of two command posts of the Odesa Maritime Border Detachment as the 79th Border Detachment of NKVD of the Ukrainian SSR was created to protect the western border along the Dniester River, with the headquarter being Mayaki. In 1940, following the Annexation of Bessarabia it was deployed for the protection of border from Dzurashulesti to the Black Sea. In the summer of 1941, it became the 79th separate border rifle r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Sea
The Black Sea is a marginal sea, marginal Mediterranean sea (oceanography), mediterranean sea lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia. It is bounded by Bulgaria, Georgia (country), Georgia, Romania, Russia, Turkey, and Ukraine. The Black Sea is Inflow (hydrology), supplied by major rivers, principally the Danube, Dnieper and Dniester. Consequently, while six countries have a coastline on the sea, its drainage basin includes parts of 24 countries in Europe. The Black Sea, not including the Sea of Azov, covers , has a maximum depth of , and a volume of . Most of its coasts ascend rapidly. These rises are the Pontic Mountains to the south, bar the southwest-facing peninsulas, the Caucasus Mountains to the east, and the Crimean Mountains to the mid-north. In the west, the coast is generally small floodplains below foothills such as the Strandzha; Cape Emine, a dwindling of the east end ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirovohrad
Kropyvnytskyi (, ) is a city in central Ukraine, situated on the Inhul River. It serves as the administrative center of Kirovohrad Oblast. Population: Over its history, Kropyvnytskyi has changed its name several times. The settlement was known as Yelysavethrad after Empress Elizabeth of Russia from 1752 to 1924, or simply Elysavet. In 1924, as part of the Soviet Union, it became known as Zinovievsk after the revolutionary Grigory Zinoviev, who was born there. Following the assassination of Sergei Kirov in 1934, the town was renamed Kirovo. Concurrently with the formation of Kirovohrad Oblast on 10 January 1939, and to distinguish it from Kirov Oblast in central Russia, Kirovo was renamed Kirovohrad. As part of independent Ukraine, the name of the city was then changed to ''Kropyvnytskyi'' in 2016 due to decommunization laws, in honour of Marko Kropyvnytskyi, who was born near the city. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
