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Velykyi Vilkhovyi Island

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Ostriv Velykyi Potomkin (Ukrainian: Острів Великий Потьомкін, lit. 'Big Potemkin Island'; Russian: Остров Большой Потёмкин), also known as the Potemkin Island, or, officially, the Velykyi Vilkhovyi Island (Ukrainian: Великий Вільховий острів, lit. 'Big Alder Island'), is a river island located within the Dnieper River in the Kherson urban hromada of Kherson Raion of Kherson Oblast of Ukraine.

Adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Photography via Wikimedia Commons.

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