Yuzhne
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Yuzhne is a port city
City
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 in Odessa Oblast
Odessa Oblast
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 (province
Oblast
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) of south-western Ukraine
Ukraine
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. The city is designated as its own separate raion
Raion
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 (district) within the oblast, and is situated on the country's Black Sea
Black Sea
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 coast.

It is an internationally important oil terminal
Container terminal
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, and one of Ukraine's top three ports, with Odessa
Odessa
Odessa or Odesa is the administrative center of the Odessa Oblast located in southern Ukraine. The city is a major seaport located on the northwest shore of the Black Sea and the fourth largest city in Ukraine with a population of 1,029,000 .The predecessor of Odessa, a small Tatar settlement,...

 and Illichivsk
Illichivsk
Illichivsk is a port city in the Odessa Oblast of south-western Ukraine. The city is designated as its own separate raion within the oblast, and is located at around .-Geography:...

. In fact, these three nearby port cities have grown into a single conurbation
Conurbation
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, and Yuzhne is considered a satellite of Odessa.

Name

The city is located in Ukraine
Ukraine
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, and it carries a foreign name as a claim or a mark that once this area was part of the Greater Russia. Although it sounds awkwardly in Ukrainian
Ukrainian language
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 the city's name has not changed since Ukraine
Ukraine
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 obtained its independence. The correct way to name the town in Ukrainian
Ukrainian language
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 is Pivdenne, rather than Yuzhne.

Nonetheless, on May 11, 1978 by the order of the Presidium of Verkhovna Rada
Verkhovna Rada
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 of Ukrainian SSR
Ukrainian SSR
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 the newly built populated place was given the name of the village Yuzhne. Starting from this event the place takes its beginning. What is remarkable that the town was created by the Ukrainian government, and not Russian, yet it was given the Russian name.

In February, 1993 the Verkhovna Rada
Verkhovna Rada
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 of Ukraine
Ukraine
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 declared to give the urbanized village a special status in the Odessa Oblast
Odessa Oblast
Odesa Oblast, also written as Odessa Oblast , is the southernmost and largest oblast of south-western Ukraine. The administrative center of the oblast is the city of Odessa.-History:...

. In 2000 the declaration of Verkhovna Rada
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#1914-III confirmed the city limits.

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