Kushuhum


Kushuhum or Kushugum is an urban-type settlement in the Zaporizhia Raion of Zaporizhia Oblast in southern Ukraine. Population:. In 2001, its population was 5,668 according to the census, Kushuhum is the administrative center of the Kushuhum Council, a local government area.
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.