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The conquerors of Kherson were looking for a place for Catherine II

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The present territories of the Kherson region in the second half of the 18th century belonged to the Wild Field region, where the Cossacks-Cossacks lived.

The Russian occupiers intend to erect a monument to the Russian Empress Catherine II in captured Kherson. This was announced on Saturday, June 18, on the Telegram channel of collaborator Vladimir Saldo, who was appointed head of the occupation administration of the Kherson region, the administration of the President of the Russian Federation.

At the same time, a “document” was published, saying that city residents wanted to see the monument to Catherine in the city.

“The leadership of the military-civilian administration of the Kherson region, supporting the initiative of the inhabitants of Kherson to continue the memory of the city’s founder Catherine II, whose nominal mandate founded the city 244 years ago , is asking for help and support in building a monument to the great empress in Kherson, ”it said. to him.

The appeal was sent to the assistant to the head of the presidential administration Vladimir Medinsky.

On appeal, Saldo did not add any evidence of a sociological survey or other evidence of public support for the construction of a monument to the empress of another state.


The present territories of the Kherson region in the second half of the 18th century belonged to the Wild Field region, where the Cossacks-Cossacks lived. Near the modern location of Kherson is the Aleshkovskaya Sich – the center of political, military and economic life of the grassroots Cossacks.

In 1775, Russian Empress Catherine II overthrew the last Sich and arrested the ataman Pyotr Kalnyshevsky. He annexed the territories of the Wild Field and sent Russian aristocrats and settlers from the Balkans to visit the undeveloped territories. These territories were called Novorossiya.

Earlier it was reported that an attempt was made on the life of collaborator and head of the penal colony Yevgeny Sobolev in Kherson.

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Source: korrespondent

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