KHERSON:(Redirected from DOBROVELICHKOVKA.) Russian city;
capital of the government of the same name; situated on the
right bank of the Dnieper, near its mouth. It was founded by
Prince Potemkin in 1778. When permission was given the Jews to
settle in New Russia by a ukase of Nov. 16, 1769, a number
established themselves in the district which later included
Kherson; some of these were among the first inhabitants of
Kherson. By 1781 the Jews in Kherson had become numerous enough
to organize a community, and the pinḳeses show that the by-laws
of the ḥebra ḳaddisha were prepared in that year. According to
these records, the head of the brotherhood was elected for life,
and the governing body was chosen from among the members by
ballot. From 1839 to 1859 there were ninety-three members. When
a commission was organized (Aug. 1, 1840) in Odessa by order of
the government to consider the feasibility of establishing the
office of government rabbi, the Kherson community voluntarily
elected Moses Warshavski, a local m