Pivdennoukrainsk (Ukrainian: Південноукраїнськ), formerly known as Yuzhnoukrainsk (Южноукраїнськ), is a city on the Southern Bug river, in Voznesensk Raion, Mykolaiv Oblast, Ukraine, about 350 kilometers (over 200 miles) south of the capital Kyiv.

[citation needed] It received city status and the name Yuzhnoukrainsk on 2 April 1987.

This is because the city's name contains the Russian-language prefix yuzhny (южный), which means "south".

[6] In March 2023, the Ukrainian law "On the Condemnation and Prohibition of Propaganda of Russian Imperial Policy in Ukraine and the Decolonization of Toponymy" was passed, which provides for the derussification of Ukrainian toponymy.

The power plant has three VVER-1000 reactors and a net capacity of 2,850 megawatts (MW).