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  1. Port in Ukraine, USSR, on the Dnieper river,
  2. capital of Kherson region; population (1987)
  3. 358,000. Industries include shipbuilding,
  4. soap, and tobacco manufacture. It was founded
  5. 1778 by army commander Potemkin as the first
  6. Russian naval base on the Black Sea.
  7.