Yuzhne (Ukrainian: Ю́жне, formerly: Южний, Yuzhny, translated as "southern" n. adj.) is a port city in Odessa Oblast (province) of south-western Ukraine. The city is designated as its own separate raion (district) within the oblast as a city of regional significance, and is situated on the country's Black Sea coast. Initially created as a settlement of the Odessa Portside Plant in the Hryhorivka Estuary, since 1981 it was transformed into a suburb of Odessa within the Suvorovsky District of the city.