Beryslav (Ukrainian: Берисла́в, pronounced [berɪsˈɫɑu̯]) is a city in Kherson Oblast of southern Ukraine. It serves as the administrative center for Beryslav Raion (district), housing the district's local administration buildings. Beryslav hosts the administration of Beryslav urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.[1] It had a population of 12,123 (2021 est.)[2]

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Beryslav Берисла́в
City
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Coordinates: 46°50′N 33°25′E
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Kherson Oblast
Raion	Beryslav Raion
Population  (2021)
• Total	12,123
Climate	Dfa

The city is located on the right-bank of Dnieper river across from Kakhovka on the opposite bank. Until the creation of the Kakhovka Reservoir, the city contained one of a historical crossing over the Dnieper.

History

One of the oldest settlements in the Kherson Oblast, in the late 14th century Beryslav was part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Grand Duke Vytautas built a castle here. It served as a Lithuanian customs point, as the lower Dnieper formed the Lithuanian border.

Later on it was known as the Turkish fortress of Kizikermen or Kazikermen (Gazikermen). Kazikermen and Islamkermen and Sahinkermen nearby were primary fortifications in the lower Dnieper area starting in the 15th century. [3][4][5] According to legend, chains were stretched across the Dnieper between the fortifications to control river traffic.[6] Here was also one of the fords providing access across the Dnieper known as Tawan crossing. At the end of August of 1695, Kazikermen was sacked by the Zaporizhia Host Cossacks of Ivan Mazepa and the Sloboda Ukraine Cossacks of Boris Sheremetiev during the so called Azov-Dnieper campaigns.

By the 1700 Treaty of Constantinople, the Ottomans disbanded the fortifications. Later in the 19th century, ruins of the Kazikermen fortress were completely cleared away. After its 1784 re-establishment, the settlement was renamed Beryslav.

On 16 December, 1918, Hetman of Ukraine Pavlo Skoropadsky signed a telegram in Beryslav addressed to Kiev where he officially resigned from his post. Since August 2016, the city has hosted the revived Ukrainian Premier League and UEFA Europa League football club, Tavriya Simferopol.[7]

During the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Beryslav was one of many settlements occupied by the Russians, but was recaptured by the Ukrainian military during the southern counteroffensive on 11 November.[8]

See also

• Holy Presentation Church, located in the city
• List of cities in Ukraine

Gallery

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  Siege of Kazikermen in 1695 by united forces of Ivan Mazepa and Boris Sheremetev, engraving by Tarasiewicz
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  Fragment of the New Servia map by Chez le Rouge (Paris, 1769)

References

External links

• Kniazkov, Yu. Kazikermen. Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine. 2007
• Vyrskyi, D. Beryslav. Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine. 2003
• The murder of the Jews of Beryslav during World War II, at Yad Vashem website.

На других языках

[de] Beryslaw

[es] Berislav

[ru] Берислав