Amur-Nyzhnodniprovskyi District ( uk, Амур-Нижньодніпровський район; sometimes abbreviated as "AND") is an

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of the city of

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, in southern

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(31 January 2020) It is located on the city's north and on the left-bank of

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along with the city's Industrialnyi and Samarskyi districts. Its name is derived from a small settlement of Amur and the Nyzhnodniprovsk railway station. The first village located on what is now the Amur-Nyzhnodniprovskyi District was founded in the late

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, making the area one of the oldest inhabited parts of Dnipro.

History

According to historical findings on the current territory of the Amur-Nyzhnodniprovskyi District there was a village called Kamianka that was founded in 1596. Kamianka is considered to be one of the oldest settlements in

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. In 1757 the village Berezanivka was founded by the

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Berezan. The territory contained the settlement of Manuylivka (the

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changed the name to Vorontsovka in 1922) which was named after the Cossack settler Manuil. Until 1786 all three villages belonged to belonged to the Samara province (''palanka'') of

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. After the liquidation of

by the Russian government of

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in 1775, the region was admitted into the newly formed Novomoskovsk county of

Yekaterinoslav Governorate The Yekaterinoslav Governorate (russian: Екатеринославская губерния, Yekaterinoslavskaya guberniya; uk, Катеринославська губернія, translit=Katerynoslavska huberniia) or Government of Yekaterinos ...

. The territory on the left bank of Dnieper across Yekaterinoslav at interfluvial region between Dnieper and Samara was known locally as Zadniprovia (''Trans-Dnieper region''). The village of Amur emerged in 1875 and contained various factories. To the east of Amur there was a village Baraf which was merged with Amur to form an industrial small city named Amur-Nyzhnodniprovskyi (Nyzhnodniprovskyi meaning "

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"). After a railway was laid in the area in 1895/1897 the area became heavy industrial. In September 1917 all settlements of Zadniprovia were organized into a district of Zadniprovskyi Raion. On 25 January 1918 the district was renamed into Amur-Nyzhnodniprovsk. In

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the area saw heavy fighting during the June 1941 phase of

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. In 1969 the district was split in half and at its eastern and northern portions was created the Industrialnyi District. From the late

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until the mid

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the district was greatly expanded.

Neighborhoods

* Amur * Nyzhnodniprovsk * Manuilivka * Sakhalin * Sultanivka * Sonyachny * Kalynovsky * Borzhom * Kamianka * Lomivka * Livoberezhny * Berezanivka

Gallery

File:2011 - panoramio - edykbo (13).jpg, A panoramic view of the Amur-Nyzhnodniprovskyi District File:Магазин Океан.jpg, The Amur-Nyzhnodniprovskyi District's File:Проспект в районі тролейбусного віадуку.jpg, The Amur-Nyzhnodniprovskyi District's Slobozhans'kyi Avenue File:Обраб7906.jpg, Soviet military cemetery

References

External links

* {{Dnipro Urban districts of Dnipro 1596 establishments in Ukraine 1918 establishments in Ukraine