Kushuhum
Sign in to saveKushuhum or Kushugum () is a rural settlement in Zaporizhzhia Raion, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, southern Ukraine. Kushuhum hosts the administration of Kushuhum settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. In 2001, its population was 5,668 according to the census, Kushuhum is the administrative center of the Kushuhum settlement council, a local government area.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Kushuhum
- Settlement.native_name
- Кушугум
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- uk
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Rural settlement
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Приміщення селищної ради.jpg
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Ukraine#Ukraine Zaporizhia Oblast
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location of Kushuhum in Zaporizhzhia Oblast
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Oblast
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Zaporizhzhia Oblast
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Raion
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Zaporizhzhia Raion
- Settlement.established_title
- Founded
- Settlement.established_date
- 1770
- Settlement.established_title2
- Settlement status
- Settlement.established_date2
- 1938
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 4.499
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Kushuhum or Kushugum () is a rural settlement in Zaporizhzhia Raion, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, southern Ukraine. Kushuhum hosts the administration of Kushuhum settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. In 2001, its population was 5,668 according to the census, Kushuhum is the administrative center of the Kushuhum settlement council, a local government area.
==History== The settlement was first founded in 1770 as the village of Velyka Katerynivka (). In 1938, it was renamed to Kushuhum and given the status of an urban-type settlement. It is located on the left bank of the Kakhovka Reservoir.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kushuhum” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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