Skadovsk (Ukrainian: Скадовськ, IPA: [skɐˈdɔu̯sʲk], Russian: Скадовск) is a port city on the Black Sea coast in Kherson Oblast, southern Ukraine.

The town was founded in 1894 by Sergey B. Skadovsky, a hydrobiologist and biochemist who was also a member of the State Council of the Taurida Governorate during the Russian Empire.

[3] The town was originally a seaport for sending wheat, wool and furs to France, Germany and other European countries.

[9] According to the Ukrainian news outlet Ukrayinska Pravda, on the same day of Yakovlev's detention, a peaceful rally demanding his release was held.

[10][11] On 15 March 2024, Ukrainian partisans claimed to have carried out a bombing near a polling station in Skadovsk that was being used for the 2024 Russian presidential election.

In 2009, leading up to the Ukrainian presidential election, organizers of the Black Sea Games in Skadovsk presented Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko with a Bengal albino tigress named Tiger-Yulia.