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The city is located on the right-bank of the Dnieper River across from Kakhovka on the opposite bank. Until the creation of the Kakhovka Reservoir, the city contained one of a historical crossing over the Dnieper.
By the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine of July 26, 2001, No. 878,[3] Beryslav was included in the List of Historical Settlements of Ukraine as the oldest settlement in the Kherson region.
One of the oldest settlements in the Kherson Oblast, in the late 14th century Beryslav was part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Grand Duke Vytautas built a castle here. It served as a Lithuanian customs point, as the lower Dnieper formed the Lithuanian border.
Later on it was known as the Turkish fortress of KizikermenorKazikermen (Gazikermen). Kazikermen and Islamkermen and Sahinkermen nearby were primary fortifications in the lower Dnieper area starting in the 15th century.[4][5][6] According to legend, chains were stretched across the Dnieper between the fortifications to control river traffic.[7] Here was also one of the fords providing access across the Dnieper known as Tawan crossing. At the end of August of 1695, Kazikermen was sacked by the Zaporizhia Host CossacksofIvan Mazepa and the Sloboda Ukraine CossacksofBoris Sheremetev during the so called Azov-Dnieper campaigns.
By the 1700 Treaty of Constantinople, the Ottomans disbanded the fortifications. Later in the 19th century, ruins of the Kazikermen fortress were completely cleared away. After its 1784 re-establishment, the settlement was renamed Beryslav.
Beryslav was occupied by German forces on August 23, 1941. On September 22 about 400 Jews then living in Beryslav were murdered near the town by the members of Einsatzgruppe D. Another 35 Jews from Beryslav were shot in early October 1941. Beryslav was liberated by the Red Army on March 11, 1944.[8]
^Stepanchenko, Aleksandr (2015-12-24). "Судьба османских мечетей в Украине" [The fate of Ottoman mosques in Ukraine]. Islam in Ukraine (in Russian). Retrieved 2024-02-02.
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