Solone (; ) is a

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Dnipro Raion Dnipro Raion (), formerly Dnipropetrovsk Raion () until 2016, is a raion (district) of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, southeastern Ukraine. Its administrative centre is the city of Dnipro. The population is On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrati ...

Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (), is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast (province) in simultaneously southern, eastern and central Ukraine, the most important industrial region of the country. It was created on February 27, 1932. Dnipropetro ...

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. It hosts the administration of Solone settlement hromada, one of the

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s of Ukraine. Population:

History

Solone is located on both banks of the Solonenka River, a right tributary of the Mokra Sura River, itself a right tributary of the

Dnieper The Dnieper or Dnepr ( ), also called Dnipro ( ), is one of the major transboundary rivers of Europe, rising in the Valdai Hills near Smolensk, Russia, before flowing through Belarus and Ukraine to the Black Sea. Approximately long, with ...

. In 1803 the Sts. Peter and Paul Church was built in Solonenke as the

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was then called. In 1889 Tsar Alexander III promulgated the Land Captain (Zemstvo chief) Statute of 1889, abolishing the old position of justice of the peace. As a result,

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was divided into 7 precincts. The 3rd precinct included the following areas: Surske, Lotsman-Kamyansk, Voloske, Solone, Mykilske, and Yamburg. In 1937, the Soviet government had built a grandiose

theater Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors to present experiences of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The performers may communi ...

in Solone, which was destroyed during the retreat of the

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in 1943. In August 1941, the

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created a Solone

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detachment (commander Volobuev) which existed until November 1941. Until 18 July 2020, Solone was the administrative center of Solone Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast to seven. The area of Solone Raion was merged into Dnipro Raion. Until 26 January 2024, Solone was designated

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. On this day, a new law entered into force which abolished this status, and Solone became a rural settlement.

Economy

Transportation

Solone has access to the Highway M04 connecting

Dnipro Dnipro 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, Dnipro River, from which it takes its name. Dnipro is t ...

with

Kryvyi Rih Kryvyi Rih ( ; , ), also known as Krivoy Rog ( ), is a city in central Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Kryvyi Rih Raion and its subordinate Kryvyi Rih urban hromada in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. The city is part of the Kryvyi Rih Metropo ...

, as well as to the Highway H08 connecting Dnipro with

Zaporizhzhia Zaporizhzhia, formerly known as Aleksandrovsk or Oleksandrivsk until 1921, is a city in southeast Ukraine, situated on the banks of the Dnieper, Dnieper River. It is the Capital city, administrative centre of Zaporizhzhia Oblast. Zaporizhzhia ...

. The closest railway station is in the village of Nadiivka, on the railway connecting Dnipro and

Apostolove Apostolove (, ; ) is a city in Kryvyi Rih Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Apostolove urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: In 2001, the population was 16,439. Until the raion was abol ...

References

External links

NKVD Units in the German-Soviet war 1941-1945. Volobuev's Unit. How it looked from the inside

Are Land Captains a boring topic? Is not a fact. Part 1 Solone district.

The history of the unique Solone theater (1937-1943) under two regimes.

The Orthodox life . P. 1 The village Solone
{{Authority control Rural settlements in Dnipro Raion