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Once Yekaterinoslav became part of the Soviet Union (officially in 1922), and became Dnipropetrovsk in 1926, [23] the city was gradually purged of tsarist-era monuments. Monumental architecture was stripped of Imperial coats of arms and other non-socialist symbolism.
After 1922 Katerynoslav became part of the newly founded Soviet Union, of which Ukraine was one of the nominally autonomous member republics. In 1926 the city was renamed to Dnipropetrovsk (Russian: Днепропетровск – Dnepropetrovsk ).
From the second half of the 19th century, with the founding of Yuzovka (Donetsk), the governorate became the coal-mining and metallurgical center of the then Ukraine, incorporating the Dnieper Industrial Region and the Donbass (Donets Basin).
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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Mar 3, 2022 · The city then became one of the major industrial centers of Soviet Ukraine and one of the critical manufacturing centers of nuclear, arms, and space industries of the Soviet Union. Due to its military industries, the city of Dnipropetrovsk was considered a closed city till the 1990s.
- Diptarka Ghosh
Jul 15, 2015 · Dnipro in Soviet Ukraine. In 1926, Yekaterinoslav was renamed Dnepropetrovsk in honor of Grigory Petrovsky (1878-1958), a prominent Bolshevik and a Ukrainian Soviet politician. During the first Soviet five-year plans, Dnepropetrovsk became the main base of the metallurgical industry in the south of the USSR.
Dnipro (the former Yekaterinoslav and Dnipropetrovsk), located in south-eastern Ukraine, is the administrative center of the Dnipropetrovsk region, the fourth most populous city in the country after Kyiv, Kharkiv and Odessa. It was one of the key centers of the Soviet metallurgical, nuclear, defense, and space industries.
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