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Dnipro is the administrative centre of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. It hosts the administration of Dnipro urban hromada. [9] Dnipro has a population of 968,502 (2022 estimate). [10] Archeological evidence suggests the site of the present city was settled by Cossack communities from at least 1524.
Sep 17, 2024 · Dnipro, city, south-central Ukraine. It lies along the Dnieper River, near its confluence with the Samara. Founded in 1783 as Katerynoslav on the river’s north bank, the settlement was moved to its present site on the south bank in 1786.
May 10, 2023 · Eastern Europe 's Dnipro River begins in Russia, flows through a significant portion of Belarus, and then bisects Ukraine on its way to the Black Sea. It is the longest river in Ukraine and the fourth longest on the continent.
Mar 3, 2022 · Named after the Dnieper River, Dnipro serves as the administrative center of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast as well as the administrative seat of the Dnipro urban hromada. Dnipro is considered the fourth largest city in Ukraine after the cities of Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Odesa.
The history of Dnipro starts with the human settlement of the city, which is first attested in the Neolithic period. In the Antiquity, the area of the future city was ruled by Scythians and a number of other tribes. In the Middle Ages, an Orthodox monastery existed on one of the islands on the Dneper, which now lays in the city borders.
May 5, 2023 · Visiting towns and villages along the Dnipro a year after Russia’s full-scale invasion and ahead of a much-anticipated Ukrainian counteroffensive, Nicole Tung, a photographer for The New York...
Mar 11, 2024 · Dnipropetrovsk region (Ukr. oblast), with its centre in the city of Dnipro, lies in the very heart of Ukraine. And like every heart, it beats together with the whole organism, the state.
The Dnieper (/(d ə) ˈ n iː p ər / (də)-NEE-pər), also called Dnepr or Dnipro (/ d ə ˈ n iː p r oʊ / də-NEE-proh), [a] 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 2,200 km (1,400 mi) long, [2] with a drainage basin of 504,000 square kilometres (195,000 sq mi), it is the longest river of Ukraine and Belarus and the fourth-longest river in Europe, after ...
Sep 19, 2023 · Dnipro (Ukrainian: Дніпро, also transliterated Dnepr from Russian: Днепр), until May 2016 known as Dnipropetrovsk (Ukrainian: Дніпропетро́вськ) or Dnepropetrovsk (Russian: Днепропетровск), is a major industrial city in Eastern Ukraine. It is named after the Dnieper River (known in Ukraine as the Dnipro ...
Feb 21, 2018 · Dnipro is the 4th city by population in Ukraine. It has survived many revolutions and changes: from being the third capital of the Russian Empire (after Moscow and St. Petersburg) to becoming Ekaterinoslav, Dnipropetrovsk and, finally, Dnipro. The city with a Soviet past will surprise tourists with its sights and quick pace of life.
