Skadovsk Raion
Skadovsk Raion () is one of the five administrative raions of Ukraine, raions (districts) of Kherson Oblast in southern Ukraine. Its administrative center is located in the city of Skadovsk. Population:
On 18 July 2020, as part of the 2020 admi ...
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Kherson Oblast
Kherson Oblast (, ; ), also known as Khersonshchyna (, ), is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast (province) in southern Ukraine. It is located just north of Crimea. Its administrative center is Kherson, on the northern or right bank ...
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Ukraine
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hromadas
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of Ukraine. The village is located 5 km. south of Kherson City on Bilohrudyi Island (), one of the islands of the
Dnieper
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delta
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Russia
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at the beginning of its invasion of Ukraine in late February 2022.
The village was completely flooded when the
Kakhovka Dam
The Kakhovka Dam was a dam on the Dnieper River (also known as Dnipro) in Kherson Oblast, Ukraine, completed in 1956 and destroyed in 2023, which provided water for the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Station (). The primary purposes of the dam were hyd ...
was destroyed on 6 June 2023.
Bilohrudyi Island (including Bilohrudove) was reportedly liberated by Ukrainian forces in late June 2023. On November 11 heavy fighting was reported to be ongoing on the island as the battle for control of the Dnipro continued.https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-november-11-2023
Demographics
According to the
1989 Soviet census
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, the population of Bilohrudove was 273, of which 131 were men and 142 were women.{{Cite web , title=Банк даних , url=http://db.ukrcensus.gov.ua/MULT/Database/Census/databasetree_uk.asp , access-date=2023-06-08 , website=db.ukrcensus.gov.ua
According to the
2001 Ukrainian census
The 2001 Ukrainian census is to date the only census of the population of independent Ukraine. It was conducted by the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine on 5 December 2001, twelve years after the last Soviet Union census in 1989.Ukrainian speakers, 7.17% were native Russian speakers, and the remaining 0.34% were native Belarusian speakers.