Annexation of Strilkove and Schaslyvtseve Village Councils
The territories of Henichesk district, particularly the Arabat Spit, are considered a tourist gem of the Kherson region. But few know that until 1955 this territory was part of the Dzhankoy district of the Crimean Oblast.
The territories of Henichesk district, particularly the Arabat Spit, are considered a tourist gem of the Kherson region. The salt-marsh steppe, the healing water of the Syvash, and the warm and gentle Sea of Azov attract a large number of tourists to the Kherson region every year. But few know that until 1955, the territory of the Arabat Spit was part of the Dzhankoy district of the Crimean Oblast.
In 2020, 65 years had passed since the Strilkove and Schaslyvtseve village councils of the Dzhankoy district of the Crimean Oblast were transferred to the Henichesk district of the Kherson Oblast.
In April 1955, corresponding changes were made to all official cartographic materials.
In addition, in August 1955, the executive committee of the Kherson Oblast Council of Working People's Deputies appealed to the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR with a request for an official change in the total area of the oblast's territory. Thus, as of 1947, the territory of the Kherson Oblast was 27.5 thousand sq. km. But due to the inclusion of 2.3 thousand sq. kilometers of the territory of the Dnipro Estuary, the Syvash water reservoir (Rotten Sea), and separate bays of the Black Sea, as well as an increase in the territory of the Henichesk district by 0.1 thousand sq. km due to the annexation of the Strilkove and Schaslyvtseve village councils to the Henichesk district, the territory of the oblast increased to 27.6 thousand sq. km. These changes had to be introduced into all official reference books.
State Archive of Kherson Oblast, F. R-1979, Op. 20, File 24, Sheet 267
It should also be emphasized that for a long time, the official date of the final liberation of the Kherson Oblast from the Nazi occupiers was considered March 14, 1944, when the Bilozerka district was liberated. The events of 1955 were not taken into account in any reference books. Therefore, it is appropriate to emphasize once again that the liberation of the territory of the Kherson Oblast was completed during the Crimean Offensive Operation (April 8 - May 12, 1944) by the troops of the 51st Army of the 4th Ukrainian Front, who on April 12, 1944, liberated the territories of the Strilkove, Schaslyvtseve, and Chongar village councils of the Henichesk district.