The Sobornyi District () is an
urban district
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of the city of
Dnipro
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, in
southern Ukraine
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. It is located in the city's center on the right-bank of the
Dnieper River
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.
History
According to archeological finds, in the
Paleolithic
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period (7—3 thousand ''
Anno Domini
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'') human settlements appear on
Monastyrskyi Island
Monastyrskyi Island () is located within the boundaries of the Sobornyi district of the Ukrainian city of Dnipro near the right bank of the Dnieper River. It is covered with granite rocks to the west which gradually turns into a sandy spit in ...
; which is located in Sobornyi District.
Traces of
Cimmerian
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settlements during the
Bronze Age
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have been found near today's Sobornyi District's
Taras Shevchenko Park.
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'' (); on that day the district was renamed to comply with decommunization laws.
On 14 January 2023 a Russian missile destroyed a residential building on Sobornyi District's , 118; killing over 40 people.
]
Population
Language
Distribution of the population by native language according to the 2001 census:
Neighborhoods
* Nahirny
* Laherny
* Vuzivsky
* Mandrykivka
* Lotskamianka
* Peremoha
* Sokil
Gallery
File:Dnipropetrovsk view.jpg, View of a part of Sobornyi District
File:Pobeda (Peremoha).jpg, Peremoha microdistrict is a part of Sobornyi District
File:Embankment Dnipropetrovsk.jpg, Sicheslav Embankment in Sobornyi district, Dnipro
File:Komsomolsky Island, Dnipropetrovsk.jpg, Monastyrskyi Island
Monastyrskyi Island () is located within the boundaries of the Sobornyi district of the Ukrainian city of Dnipro near the right bank of the Dnieper River. It is covered with granite rocks to the west which gradually turns into a sandy spit in ...
with a church and steep cliffs
File:Вид на "Нагірну" частину міста з лівого берегу.jpg, Panorama view of neighbourhood
File:Просп. Гагарина, дом 99. - panoramio.jpg, Khrushchyovkas (formerly Gagarin
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Avenue)Kh-22
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missile
References
External links
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Urban districts of Dnipro
States and territories established in 1936
1936 establishments in Ukraine
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