The Novokodatskyi District () is an

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of the city of

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, in central

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. It is in the right-bank western part of the city and borders the city of

Kamianske Kamianske (, ; ), previously known as Dniprodzerzhynsk from 1936 to 2016, is an industrial city in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine, and a port on the Dnieper, Dnieper River. It serves as the administrative center of Kamianske Raion and Kamianske ...

History

The area of the district includes many former

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settlements among which are Diiivka, Novi Kodaky, Sukhachivka and others.The oldest Cossack settlement within Dnipropetrovsk now has its own chronicle

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(4 May 2010) Novi Kodaky was founded during the reign of

Bohdan Khmelnytsky Zynoviy Bohdan Mykhailovych Khmelnytsky of the Abdank coat of arms (Ruthenian language, Ruthenian: Ѕѣнові Богданъ Хмелнiцкiи; modern , Polish language, Polish: ; 15956 August 1657) was a Ruthenian nobility, Ruthenian noble ...

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and was the center of the "Kodak palanquin" of the

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. A trade route from

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passed through Novi Kodak. At the end of the 19th century the area became the center of the metallurgical industry of what is now Ukraine. The colony of the Bryansk plant was formed to house factory workers.History of the Novokodatskyi District
Dnipro City Council Other settlements for laborers grew together with it: Chechelivka, Shlyakhovka and Fabryka. Near the factories a railway station – Horiayinove, a secondary school for 600 people and hospital were built. In 1928, the Ilyich

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was built, and in 1936 the building of the Industrial Technical School was built. The current district was created in 1940 out of the city's Kodatskyi and Fabrychno-Chechelivskyi districts. In 2006, the old

town of Taromske, which was located between former Dnipropetrovsk and former Dniprodzerzhynsk (now

), was merged into the district. Taromske was located on the ancient road from

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. Until 26 November 2015 the district was named after

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(, ''Leninskyi District''); that day it was renamed to Novokodatskyi District to comply with decommunization laws. Novokodatskyi District did not escape the Russian aerial attacks on Dnipro (of the

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); in the evening of 25 October 2024 a missile attack in the district destroyed and partially destroyed two two-story buildings and two dozen apartment buildings were damaged. The attack killed five people and injured 21.

Population

Language

Distribution of the population by native language according to the 2001 census:

Neighborhoods

* Bryanka * Shliahivka * Novi Kodaky (Novi Kaidaky) * Diivka * Diivka-2 * Chervonyi Kamin * Pokrovsky *

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* Sukhachivka * Taromske * Fabryka * Krupske * Nove * Zakhidnyi

Gallery

File:Пішохідна частина.jpg, Pedestrian part of the district's File:Dnipropetrovs'k S.Nigoyana 66 Bryans'ka Tserkva 02 (YDS 5884).jpg, Bryansk Church of Saint Nicholas on Serhiy Nigoyan Avenue File:Миколаївська церква в Кодаках 6499.jpg, Saint Nicholas Church on 108 Fortechna Street File:Дніпропетровськ. Будинок по вул. Квірінга, 7.jpg, Dwelling house of engineering and technical workers of the colony of the Bryansk plant on Belhiiska Street

References

External links

Novokodatskyi District
at the Dnipro City Council website {{Dnipro Urban districts of Dnipro States and territories established in 1920 1920 establishments in Ukraine