Dnipropetrovsk Oblast

Coordinates: 48°23′N 34°43′E / 48.39°N 34.71°E / 48.39; 34.71
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Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
Дніпропетровська область
Dnipropetrovska oblast[1]
View of Dnipro
View of Dnipro
Nickname(s): 
Дніпропетровщина (Dnipropetrovshchyna), Січеславщина (Sicheslavshchyna)
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Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (

administrative centers: Dnipro, Kryvyi Rih, Kamianske, Nikopol and Pavlohrad. The Dnieper River
runs through the oblast.

In 2019, the Constitutional Court of Ukraine approved the change of the oblast's name to Sicheslav Oblast (Ukrainian: Січеславська область, romanized: Sicheslavska oblast).[6] The change is not yet implemented.

Geography

The Dnipropetrovsk Oblast is located in southeastern Ukraine. The area of the oblast (31,974 km2) comprises about 5.3% of the total area of the country. Its longitude from north to south is 130 km, from east to west – 300 km. The oblast borders the

Mykolayiv and Kirovohrad Oblasts
on the west.

The

kaolin. Kryvbas is an important economic region, specializing in iron ore mining and the steel industry. It is arguably the main iron ore region of Eastern Europe. Named after the city of Kryvyi Rih, the region occupies the southwestern part of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, as well as a small neighboring part of the Kirovohrad Oblast
.

The region possesses major deposits of iron ore and some other metallurgical ores. To exploit them, several large mining companies were founded here in the middle of the 20th century. Most of them are located in Kryvyi Rih itself, which is the longest city in Europe.

Geology

Much of the Dnipropetrovsk region is located within the boundaries of the Ukrainian Shield and only the northern regions and the extreme eastern part of the territory are confined to the south-eastern side of the Dnipro-Donets depression.

In the geological structure of the region, the breeds come from the archaea,[clarification needed] the Proterozoic, the Paleozoic, the Mesozoic and the Cenozoic.

History

1648 map of Beauplan where Dzikie Pole identified in upper portion of the map.

In the 6th and 8th centuries, the first settlements of Slavs appeared on the banks of the Dnieper within the region. During the period of

From the Varangians to the Greeks", which connected the Baltic countries with the Crimea and the capital of Byzantium, Constantinople. The Dnieper also served as a major route for transporting the army of Kyiv princes on their way to the Byzantine coastal cities in the early 9th and late 9th centuries.[8][9]

At the beginning of the 15th century,

depopulation in that area; the area became known as the 'Wilderness'
.

In 1635, the Polish Government built the Kodak fortress above the Dnieper Rapids at Kodaky, partly as a result of rivalry in the region between Poland, Turkey and the Crimean Khanate,[10] and partly to maintain control over Cossack activity (i.e. to suppress the Cossack raiders and to prevent peasants moving out of the area).[11] On the night of 3 or 4 August 1635, the Cossacks of Ivan Sulyma captured the fort by surprise, burning it down and butchering the garrison of about 200 West European mercenaries under Jean Marion.[11] The fort was rebuilt by French engineer Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan[12] for the Polish Government in 1638, and had a mercenary garrison.[11] Kodak was captured by Zaporozhian Cossacks on 1 October 1648, and was garrisoned by the Cossacks until its demolition in accordance with the Treaty of the Pruth in 1711.[13]

Under the

Kinburn foreland and Ochakiv
, all locations of the Imperial Russian Army.

In December 1796,

Zaporizhian Sich. The government bordered to the north with the Kharkov Governorate and Poltava Governorate, to the west and southwest with the Kherson Governorate, to the south with the Taurida Governorate and Sea of Azov, and to the east with Don Host Oblast
.

Olexander Paul discovered and initiated iron ore investigation and production,[14][15] and this in turn caused the formation of a mining district.[16] In 1874 Alexander II initiated the founding project of a railway,[17]
running 505 kilometres (314 mi). This enabled transportation directly to the nearest factories and greatly sped up the development of the region.

On 1 August 1925, the Yekaterinoslav Governorate administration was discontinued, and in 1926 the city of Yekterinoslav was renamed Dnipropetrovsk after communist leader

okrugs, which had replaced the former Russian Imperial guberniya (governorate) subdivisions. In 1932 the territory of the Ukrainian SSR was re-established based on oblasts. The first oblasts were Vinnytsia Oblast, Kyiv Oblast, Odesa Oblast, Kharkiv Oblast, and Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. Soon after that in the summer of 1932 Donetsk Oblast
was formed out of eastern parts of Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk.

During the

Blackboards" which was a complete blockade of trade and food aid to villages under performing in grain procurement quotas; a number representing more than half of all such "Blackboards" throughout all of the Ukrainian SSR.[19]

During the 1991 referendum, 90.36% of votes in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast were in favor of the Declaration of Independence of Ukraine. A survey conducted in December 2014 by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology found 2.2% of the oblast's population supported their region joining Russia, 89.9% did not support the idea, and the rest were undecided or did not respond.[20]

The city of Dnipropetrovsk was renamed Dnipro in May 2016 as part of the

Zaporizhian Sich.[24] Since then, the renaming process has stalled (as of 2023), with reasons such as the 2019 presidential and parliamentary elections, the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine being cited.[25]

During the Russian invasion, the cities of

better source needed] It was also reported Russian troops were pushed from areas near Dnipropetrovsk Oblast and Kherson Oblast, near the border.[28] Hannivka was occupied,[29] liberated,[30] and shelled[31]
during the invasion. However, as of September 2022, there has been no ground fighting and the oblast remains completely under Ukrainian control.

Administrative subdivisions

Building of Dnipropetrovsk Regional Administration
Map of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.

The following data incorporates the number of each type of administrative divisions of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast:

  • Administrative center – 1 (Dnipro)
  • Raions
    – 7;
  • City raions – 18 (Dnipro – 8, Kryvyi Rih – 7, Kamianske −3);
  • Settlements – 1504, including:
  • Silradas
    – 288.

The local administration of the oblast is controlled by the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Rada. The governor of the oblast is the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Rada speaker, appointed by the President of Ukraine.

Since July 2020, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast consists of the following seven raions:

Demographics

Detailed map of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.

Its population in 2004 was 3,493,062, which constituted 5.3% of the overall Ukrainian population.

Dnipro
Kryvyi Rih

At the 2001 census, the ethnic groups within the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast were:[40]

the groups by native language:

Age structure

0–14 years: 14.1% Increase (male 241,006/female 226,216)
15–64 years: 70.2% Decrease (male 1,100,602/female 1,219,668)
65 years and over: 15.7% Steady (male 168,447/female 348,547) (2013 official)

Median age

total: 40.3 years Increase
male: 36.6 years Increase
female: 43.9 years Increase (2013 official)

Religion

Bryansk Church (Dnipro House of Organ and Chamber Music)

A Pew survey of Dnipropetrovsk residents' religious self-identification showed the following distribution of affiliations:

32.3%.

Dnipropetrovsk has one of the most balanced percentage of religious people in the nation mainly due to large number of ethnic groups. The Jewish community is centered in the Dnipro (

Golden Rose Synagogue
) and Kryvyi Rih area, and emerged during a wave of Jewish immigration.

Cities and towns

There are 20 cities and towns in Dnipro. Major population centers today result from historical factors — with the advent of the iron development took place predominantly along the

Kryvyi Rih Metropolitan Region
.

Ranked by population, the oblast's 12 largest municipalities are:

  1. Dnipro (1,080,846)
  2. Kryvyi Rih (662,507)
  3. Kamianske (262,704)
  4. Nikopol (136,280)
  5. Pavlohrad (118,816)
  6. Novomoskovsk (72,439)
  7. Zhovti Vody (54,370)
  8. Pokrov (46,532)
  9. Synelnykove (32,302)
  10. Ternivka (29,253)
  11. Pershotravensk (29,140)
  12. Vilnohirsk (23,782)

Transport

Kryvyi Rih Metro

There are eight over-Dnieper bridges and dozens of grade-separated intersections. Several new intersections are under construction. European route E105 cross Left-bank Dnipro from North to South. Highway M04 (Ukraine) and Highway M18 (Ukraine) cross River Dnieper and Dnipro from West to East, entering Kryvyi Rih. Overall, roads are in poor technical condition and maintained inadequately.

Zaporizhya, Kharkiv, Kherson and Crimea
oblasts (provinces of Ukraine).

As of 2008, NDR's rail system included 3,275 km (2,035 mi) of track, of which 93,3% were electrified. The PDR consists of five sections (directions), the Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kryvyi Rih, and Crimea directions. There are 244 railway stations in the NDR system. More than a dozen elektrichka stops are located within the city allowing residents of different neighborhoods to use the suburban trains.

The cities of Dnipro and Kryvyi Rih are served by a local sales-tax-funded bus, tram, metro and trolleybus systems.

Dnipro International Airport is the only international airport in the state and serves as one of the hubs for Dniproavia. The airport has non-stop service to over 20 destinations throughout Ukraine, Russia, and Turkey, as well as to Vienna and Tel Aviv. Kryvyi Rih International Airport provides limited commercial air service.

Environment

River Dnieper in Dnipro
Pryorilskyi Landscape Reserve

The oblast is situated in the steppe region. Forests in the oblast occupy about 3.9% of the oblast's total territory. The average temperature in the winter balances from −3 to −5 °C and in the summer from 22 to 24 °C. The average annual rainfall is 400–490 mm. During the summer, Dnipropetrovsk oblast is very warm (average day temperature in July is 24 to 28 °C (75 to 82 °F), even hot sometimes 34 to 38 °C (90 to 97 °F). Temperatures as high as 36 °C (97 °F) have been recorded in May. Winter is not so cold (average day temperature in January is −3 to 0 °C (25 to 32 °F), but when there is no snow and the wind blows hard, it feels extremely cold. A mix of snow and rain happens usually in December.

The tender climate, mineral sources, and the curative mud allow opportunities for rest and cure within the region. Here there are 21 health-centers and medicated pensions, 10 rest homes, recreation departments and rest camps for children.

The Dnipropetrovsk Oblast has splendid flora and fauna. Here, there are more than 1700 kinds of vegetation, 7500 kinds of animals (including elk, wild boar, dappled deer, roe, hare, fox, wolf, etc.) There are also 114 park and nature objects, including 15 state reserves; 3 nature memorials, 24 local parks; 7 landscape parks; 3 park tracts, which altogether make up approximately 260 square kilometres.

217 rivers flow within the area, including 55 rivers which are longer than 25 km, the major one being the Dnieper, which crosses through the center of the oblast. Also flowing through the region are three major reservoirs, the Kamianske, Dnieper and Kakhovka, and the Dnieper-Kryvyi Rih Canal.

Economy

The Dnipropetrovsk Oblast has a high industry potential. There are 712 basic industrial organizations, including 20 different types of economic activity with about 473,4 thousand workers. The area also produces about 16.9% of the total industry production of Ukraine. This places the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast second in Ukraine (after the neighbouring Donetsk Oblast).

Dnipro is a major industrial centre of Ukraine. It has several facilities devoted to heavy industry that produce a wide range of products, including

Yuzhnoye Design Bureau and construction at Pivdenmash
.

trolley buses, trams, wind turbines, and satellites that was inherited from the Soviet Union. It is a large state-owned[by whom?] company located in Dnipro
.

The region possesses major deposits of iron ore and some other metallurgical ores. To exploit them, several large mining companies were founded here in the middle of the 20th century. Most of them are located in Kryvyi Rih itself, which is the longest city in Europe. Steel companies of the region (except Mittal Steel-owned Kryvorizhstal) are controlled by either the Privat Group or the SCM. From the 1990s until 2004, these once united and state-owned industries went through a hard and scandal-ridden process of privatization. Being a business oligarch entity, Privat Group controls some prominent Ukrainian media, maintains close relations with politicians and sponsors professional sports. Key businesses of the group (including the PrivatBank itself) are based in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, which is regarded as its "homeland". Group's founding owners are natives of Dnipropetrovsk and made their entire career there.

ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih, owned by ArcelorMittal since 2005 is the largest private company by revenue in Ukraine,[42] producing over 7 million tonnes of crude steel, and mined over 17 million tonnes of iron ore. As of 2011, the company employed about 37,000 people. 4 Iron Ore Enrichment Works of Metinvest are a large contributors to the UA's balance of payments. The third giant – Evraz mining company.

Education

Colleges and universities

Kryvyi Rih National University

Dnipropetrovsk has several colleges and universities:

Sport

Dnipro Arena in Dnipro
.

Region houses the

football team Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih. FC Hirnyk Kryvyi Rih is a club based in Kryvyi Rih. The club currently competes in the Ukrainian First League
. It is part of the Sports Club Hirnyk which combines several other sections. The club's owner is the Kryvyi Rih Iron Ore Combine (KZRK), the biggest subterranean mining public company in Ukraine. SC Kryvbas is a professional basketball club. Achievements of the team are winning the Ukrainian Basketball League in 2009, and winning the Higher League in 2003 and 2004. Since 2010 the team is active in the Ukrainian Basketball SuperLeague.

Recently built Dnipro-Arena has a capacity of 31,003 people. The Dnipro-Arena hosted the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification game between Ukraine and England on 10 October 2009. The Dnipro Arena was initially chosen as one of the Ukrainian venues for their joint Euro 2012 bid with Poland. However it was dropped from the list in May 2009 as the capacity fell short of the minimum 33,000 seats required by UEFA.[43]

Dnipropetrovsk has a regional federation within Ukrainian bandy and Rink Bandy Federation.

Culture

Historically, Dnieper Ukraine comprised territory that roughly corresponded to the area of Ukraine within the expanding Russian Empire. Ukrainians sometimes call it Great Ukraine (Velyka Ukrayina). Historically, this region is tightly entwined with the history of Ukraine and is considered the heart of the country.

Ukrainian culture
.

The oblast was renamed after the Communist leader of Ukraine Grigory Petrovsky

Petrykivsky Painting originates from Petrykivka village. The distinctive features of this handicraft are the patterns, unusual technique and white background. It was included to the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
.

Notable people from Dnipropetrovsk Oblast

Landmarks

The Saviour's Transfiguration Cathedral

The following historical-cultural sites were nominated to the Seven Wonders of Ukraine.

Symbols

A Cossack with a musket was an emblem of the

Zaporizhian Host and later the state emblem of the Hetmanate and the Ukrainian State. The origin of the emblem is uncertain, while its first records date back to 1592. On the initiative of Pyotr Rumyantsev
the emblem was phased out and replaced by the Russian double-headed eagle in 1767.

A Cossack with a rifle was restored by the

Pavlo Skoropadsky in 1918. However, later the emblem disappeared again until in 2005 it reappeared on the proposed Great Seal of Ukraine. In 2002 was adopted flag and identical coat of arms of Oblast, which consists of cossack with musket and nine yellow eight-pointed stars. Stars represent coat of arms of Yekaterinoslav Governorate which also consisted of imperial monogram of Catherine the Great
.

Other symbols

Gallery

  • Dnipro
    Dnipro
  • Kryvyi Rih
    Kryvyi Rih
  • Family allotments
    Family allotments
  • Dnipro river
    Dnipro river
  • Zorya mine in Kryvyi Rih
    Zorya mine in Kryvyi Rih
  • Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration
    Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration

See also

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