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Nova Kakhovka

temporarily unavailableas of 2026-09-271951Northern Black Sea coast

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A city beside the Kakhovka dam, whose reservoir vanished in 2023.

Nova Kakhovka was built in the 1950s together with the Kakhovka hydroelectric station; it was planned as a model town with mosaics, parks and an embankment. On 6 June 2023 the dam was blown up — the Kakhovka reservoir disappeared within days, causing the greatest man-made disaster of the full-scale war and flooding dozens of villages downstream.

Under occupation since 24 February 2022.

Temporarily occupied since 2022. The Kakhovka dam was destroyed in 2023.

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24 February 2022 — The city and the hydro complex were taken on the first day of the full-scale war.
11 November 2022 — The right bank of Kherson oblast was liberated; the front line settled along the Dnipro and the city stayed on the left bank.
6 June 2023 — The Kakhovka dam was blown up: the reservoir vanished and dozens of settlements downstream were flooded.