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Dnipropetrovsk
Dnipro, previously called Dnipropetrovsk from 1926 until May 2016, is Ukraine's fourth-largest city, with about one million inhabitants. It is located in the eastern part of Ukraine, southeast of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on the Dnieper River, after which its Ukrainian language name (Dnipro) it is named. Dnipro is the administrative centre of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. It hosts the administration of Dnipro urban hromada. The population of Dnipro is Archeological evidence suggests the site of the present city was settled by Cossack communities from at least 1524. The town, named Yekaterinoslav (''the glory of Catherine''), was established by decree of the Russian Empress Catherine the Great in 1787 as the administrative center of Novorossiya. From the end of the nineteenth century, the town attracted foreign capital and an international, multi-ethnic, workforce exploiting Kryvbas iron ore and Donbas coal. Renamed ''Dnipropetrovsk'' in 1926 after the Ukrainian Communist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast ( uk, Дніпропетро́вська о́бласть, translit=Dnipropetrovska oblast), also referred to as Dnipropetrovshchyna ( uk, Дніпропетро́вщина), is an oblast (province) of central-eastern Ukraine, the most important industrial region of the country. It was created on February 27, 1932. Dnipropetrovsk Oblast has a population of about approximately 80% of whom live centering on administrative centers: Dnipro, Kryvyi Rih, Kamianske, Nikopol and Pavlohrad. The Dnieper River runs through the oblast. In 2019, the Constitutional Court of Ukraine approved the change of the oblast's name to Sicheslav Oblast ( uk, Січесла́вська о́бласть, translit=Sicheslavska oblast). Geography The Dnipropetrovsk Oblast is located in southeastern Ukraine. The area of the oblast (31,974 km2) comprises about 5.3% of the total area of the country. Its longitude from north to south is 130 km, from east to west – 300&nb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dnipro Raion
Dnipro Raion ( uk, Дніпровський район), until 2016 Dnipropetrovsk Raion ( uk, Дніпропетровський район) is a raion (district) of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, southeastern-central Ukraine. Its administrative centre is located at the city of Dnipro. Population: . On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast was reduced to seven, and the area of Dnipro Raion was significantly expanded. Three abolished raions, Petrykivka, Solone, and Tsarychanka Raions, as well as Dnipro Municipality, were merged into Dnipro Raion. The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was } Subdivisions Current After the reform in July 2020, the raion consisted of 17 hromadas: * Chumaky rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Chumaky, retained from Dnipro Raion; * Dnipro urban hromada with the administration in the city of Dnipro, transferred from Dnipro Municipality; * Kytaihorod rural ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Cities In Ukraine
This is a complete list of cities in Ukraine. On 1 January 2022, there were 461 cities ( uk, місто, ''misto'') in Ukraine. City status is granted by the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament. The city status is only partially related to the size of a populated place in Ukraine. Smaller settlements are urban-type settlements (comparable to towns in English-speaking countries) and villages ( uk, село, ''selo''). Historically, there were systems of city rights, granted by the territorial lords, which defined the status of a place as a ''misto'' or ''selo''. Cities were self-governing and had several privileges. The list of cities is ordered by 2021 estimates of population and compared to the 2001 Ukrainian Census, except for Chernobyl for which population is an unofficial estimate. The cities with special status are shown in ''italic''. Cities in Ukraine Jump to table of cities See also * Geogra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shevchenkivskyi District, Dnipro
Shevchenkivskyi District ( uk, Шевченківський район) is a right-bank urban district of the city of Dnipro, located in southern Ukraine. It is formerly known as Babushkinskyi District. History The district was formed on 12 April 1973 from the territory of Zhovtnevyi, Kirovskyi and Krasnohvardiiskyi districts and was named after Russian Bolshevik revolutionary Ivan Babushkin. On 26 November 2015 the district was renamed by the Dnipropetrovsk city council to its current name to comply with decommunization laws. The district is now named after the poet, writer, artist and political figure Taras Shevchenko. Notable places * Dnipro Main Post Office * Dnipro City Council * Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral Neighborhoods * City centre (TsUM) * Pidstantsiia * 12th Kvartal * Topolia * Koreia * Myrne * Mlyny * Krotova Main streets * Prospekt Dmytra Yavornytskoho ( Dmytro Yavornytsky Avenue), former Yekaterininsky and Karla Marksa * Sicheslavska naberezhna ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sobornyi District, Dnipro
Sobornyi District () is an urban district of the city of Dnipro, in southern Ukraine. It is located in the city's center on the right-bank of the Dnieper River. History According to archeological finds, in the Paleolithic period (7—3 thousand ''Anno Domini'') human settlements appear on Monastyrskyi Island; which is located in Sobornyi District. Traces of Cimmerian settlements during the Bronze Age The Bronze Age is a historic period, lasting approximately from 3300 BC to 1200 BC, characterized by the use of bronze, the presence of writing in some areas, and other early features of urban civilization. The Bronze Age is the second pri ... have been found near today's Sobornyi District's . The current district Sobornyi District was created on 16 March 1936 out of the Kirovskyi and Fabrychno-Chechelivskyi districts. In 1973, a portion of its territory was annexed to the newly created Babushkinskyi District. Before 26 November 2015 the district was named ''Zhovtnevyi' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Borys Filatov
Borys Albertovych Filatov ( uk, Борис Альбертович Філатов; born 7 March 1972, in Dnipropetrovsk) is a Ukrainian politician, journalist, lawyer, businessman, and the current Mayor of Dnipro. In 2014 and 2015 he was a member of the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament. Biography On 4 March 2014, he was appointed Deputy Chairman of Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration on internal affairs. In the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election Filatov as an independent candidate won a single-member districts located in Dnipropetrovsk with 56.66% of the votes and became thus a member of the Ukrainian parliament (on 27 November 2014). In parliament he joined the inter-fractional group Ukrop. In the 2015 Ukrainian local elections Filatov was elected Mayor of Dnipropetrovsk (on 15 November 2015) as a UKROP representative. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukraine
Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian invasion, it was the eighth-most populous country in Europe, with a population of around 41 million people. It is also bordered by Belarus to the north; by Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; and by Romania and Moldova to the southwest; with a coastline along the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov to the south and southeast. Kyiv is the nation's capital and largest city. Ukraine's state language is Ukrainian; Russian is also widely spoken, especially in the east and south. During the Middle Ages, Ukraine was the site of early Slavic expansion and the area later became a key centre of East Slavic culture under the state of Kievan Rus', which emerged in the 9th century. The state eventually disintegrated into rival regional powe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tsentralnyi District, Dnipro
Tsentralnyi District ( uk, Центральний район) is an urban district of the city of Dnipro, in southern Ukraine. It is located in the city's center and on the right-bank of the Dnieper River. History The district was originally created in 1932 as the Tsentralnyi Nahornyi District. on 2 December 1934, after the death of Sergei Kirov, it was renamed as the Kirovskyi District. In 1936 the eastern part of district became the Zhovtnevyi District. In 1973 more territories of the Kirovskyi District were passed to the newly formed Babushkinskyi District. The district gained its current name, Tsentralnyi District, on 27 November 2015 when it was renamed as part of Ukraine's decommunization campaign. Gallery File:Hloba Entrance.jpg, in Tsentralnyi District File:Hloby Park.jpg, Modern buildings in central part of Dnipro File:Theatre of Opera and Ballet in Dnipropetrovsk.jpg, National academic Theatre of opera and ballet File:Площа з висоти пташиного � ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chechelivskyi District
Chechelivskyi District () is an urban district of the city of Dnipro, in southern Ukraine. It is located in the city's center on the southwestern outskirts and the right-bank of the Dnieper River. History According to archeological finds, in the Paleolithic period (7—3 thousand ''Anno Domini'') human settlements appear near the in what is now the Chechelivskyi District. The district was known as the 5th court district of Yekaterinoslav (Dnipro's former name) when it was first created on 1 December 1897. After the 1905 revolution, the district was renamed into the Zavodskyi District and in 1917 the Brianskyi District after the same Briansk Factory (today, Petrovsky Metallurgical Factory). From 1920 to 1923 the district was named the Fabrychno-Chechelivskyi District. In 1923 its name was changed again, this time to the Chechelivskyi District. In 1925 it became known as the Krasnohvardiiskyi District. In 1963 the eastern portions of the district were annexed to the newly formed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novokodatskyi District
Novokodatskyi District ( uk, Новокодацький район) is an urban district of the city of Dnipro, in central Ukraine. It is in the western part of the city and borders the city of Kamianske. History The area of the district includes many former Cossack settlements among which are Diiivka, Novi Kodaky, Sukhachivka and others.The oldest Cossack settlement within Dnipropetrovsk now has its own chronicle (4 May 2010) Novi Kodaky was founded during the reign of |
Samarskyi District
Samarskyi District ( uk, Самарський район) is an urban district of the city of Dnipro, in southern Ukraine. It is located at the confluence of the Dnieper and Samara rivers in the eastern and southeastern parts of the city. History The district was created on 6 April 1977 out of the neighborhood of Samar previously in the Industrialnyi District and the newly added cities of Prydniprovsk (1956–1977) and Ihren (1959–1977) as well as a historic Cossack settlement of Chapli. Archeologic founds suggest that Samar existed in 1524. Archaeologists of the Dnipro National University have discovered artifacts there dated around 1520s. Iryna Reva, Oleh Rypan. The Old Samar (Cтара Cамар)'. The Ukrainian Week. 18 July 2011 The town of Prydniprovsk was created around the Prydniprovsk State District Power Station (DRES), today a thermal power station that was built in 1954, while the town of Ihren was created around the Ihren Rail Station, which still exists since ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monastyrskyi Island
Monastyrskyi Island ( uk, Монастирський острів) is an island within the boundaries of the Sobornyi district of the Ukrainian city of Dnipro near the right bank of the Dnipro river. It is covered with granite rocks to the west which gradually turns into a sandy spit in the east of the island. Part of the island belongs to the Taras Shevchenko city park. The island is connected to the city by a pedestrian bridge in its northern part. History According to archeological finds, in the Paleolithic period (7—3 thousand ''Anno Domini'') human settlements appear on the island. In 1961 there were found several scraps and sharpener of ancient Stone Age by archaeologists. The island got its name in the ninth century because of an unconfirmed belief that in that century Byzantine monks founded a monastery on the island, which in 1240 was destroyed by the Mongol-Tatars. In 1747 Ukrainian Cossacks did build a monastery on the island. The first monument to Taras Shevchen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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