Nova Kakhovka (, ; ) is a city in the central Kakhovka Raion region of Kherson Oblast in southern Ukraine. Nova Kakhovka has been under Russian occupation since February 2022. Nova Kakhovka is an important port city on the east bank of the Dnieper river where it meets the downstream end of the Kakhovka Reservoir. It forms one abutment of the Kakhovsky Bridge over the hydroelectric dam; the other is located in Beryslav. The city lies immediately downstream of the source of the North Crimean Canal that irrigates the Crimean peninsula and can be said to control the seat of the channel. The city's population is History Nova Kakhovka was founded on 28 February 1952, in the place where, from 1891, the village Klyucheve had existed. It was in direct proximity of the established dam of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant, one of the Soviet Union's so-called Great Construction Projects of Communism, and was built to house the plant's construction workers. Since its founding, the city has been called Nova Kakhovka, or New Kakhova, to distinguish from the city of Kakhovka located away. After the construction of the power plant was finished, most of the workers stayed in Nova Kakhovka. On October 10, 1950, the management of the "Dniprobud" created a housing department, which was tasked with the construction of a new town of power engineers. On April 20, 1951, the foundation of the first residential building on the street was laid. K. Marx, 31, and already 30 May of the same year he was put into operation. On February 10, 1952, a train arrived from Fedorivka to Nova Kakhovka. In 9 months 154 km of railways were built. At 12 o'clock, a train with a load from Chelyabinsk, Moscow, Bryansk approached the triumphal arch, where he met thousands of builders. The railway became an important transport artery, which accelerated the construction of the hydroelectric plant, the city, suburban farms, and the entire center of the Kherson region. On February 28, 1952, the working village of builders of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station was given the name "Nova Kakhovka" by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. Initially, it was assumed that it would be small, up to 20 thousand people, a city of power engineers. However, due to the good geographical location in the center of the region, the availability of cheap electricity, railways, highways, and waterways,