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- In an effort to shed the geographical legacy of the Soviet era, the Ukrainian government launched a “decommunization” initiative in 2016 that led to the renaming of more than 900 towns and cities. Dnipropetrovsk was by far the largest city to be so affected, and in May 2016 its name was officially shortened to Dnipro.
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Sep 17, 2024 · Dnipropetrovsk was by far the largest city to be so affected, and in May 2016 its name was officially shortened to Dnipro. Although Dnipro was initially spared during the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 , the city was subjected to missile strikes as Russia expanded its attacks on population centres and other nonmilitary targets.
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Jul 29, 2016 · On June 1st, 2016, the Ukrainian Parliament approved a measure that would rename several Ukrainian cities and towns including the east-central Ukrainian metropolis previously known as Dnipropetrovsk, now to be known as Dnipro.
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.
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.
The intensive development of Katerynoslav began in the 1870s, when a railroad line was built linking the town with Sevastopol and Kharkiv. In 1883 the Catherine railroad line (called the Dnipro line today) connected the new industrial centers of the Donets Basin and Kryvyi Rih.
Dnipro, formerly known as Dnipropetrovsk, is the fourth largest city in Ukraine and is located in the eastern part of the country. It is the administrative center of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast and is an important industrial, scientific, educational, and cultural center of Ukraine.
Why is the city also called Dnipropetrovsk? Dnipro was renamed in 2016 as part of Ukraine’s de-communization process following a new law in 2015. For residents, nothing has changed much, because no one bothered with the full name anyway, they always shortened the second part and said ‘Dnipro’.
