Marhanets (, lit. 'Manganese') is a city in Nikopol Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine. The city used to be located on the right bank of the Kakhovka Reservoir before the Reservoir’s destruction during the Russian invasion of Ukraine on the Dnieper River where the river meets one of its tributaries, the Tomakivka. Marhanets hosts the administration of Marhanets urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.[1] Its population is approximately
It was established in 1938 in place of the village of Horodyshche, a manganese mining town which was called Komintern from 1926 to 1938.
History
It is considered that next to the modern city was located the Cossack Fort "Tomakivka Sich" in the 16th century that was destroyed by Tatars soon after the Kosiński Uprising.
During World War II, Marhanets was under German occupation from 17 August 1941 until 5 February 1944.[2] It was administered as a part of Reichskommissariat Ukraine. The Germans operated a