Shevchenkivskyi District ( uk, Шевченківський район) is a right-bank

urban district Urban district may refer to: * District * Urban area * Quarter (urban subdivision) * Neighbourhood Specific subdivisions in some countries: * Urban districts of Denmark * Urban districts of Germany * Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland) (hist ...

of the city of

Dnipro Dnipro, previously called Dnipropetrovsk from 1926 until May 2016, is Ukraine's fourth-largest city, with about one million inhabitants. It is located in the eastern part of Ukraine, southeast of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on the Dnieper Rive ...

, located in southern

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. It is formerly known as Babushkinskyi District.

History

The district was formed on 12 April 1973 from the territory of Zhovtnevyi, Kirovskyi and Krasnohvardiiskyi districts and was named after Russian

Bolshevik The Bolsheviks (russian: Большевики́, from большинство́ ''bol'shinstvó'', 'majority'),; derived from ''bol'shinstvó'' (большинство́), "majority", literally meaning "one of the majority". also known in English ...

revolutionary

Ivan Babushkin Ivan Vasilyevich Babushkin () (pseudonym Nikolay Nikolaevich) (January 3, 1873 – January 18, 1906) was a Russian professional Bolshevik revolutionary. Early Years Babushkin was born in the ''selo'' of Ledengskoye, Totemsky Uyezd of Vologda ...

. On 26 November 2015 the district was renamed by the Dnipropetrovsk city council to its current name to comply with decommunization laws. The district is now named after the poet, writer, artist and political figure

Taras Shevchenko Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko ( uk, Тарас Григорович Шевченко , pronounced without the middle name; – ), also known as Kobzar Taras, or simply Kobzar (a kobzar is a bard in Ukrainian culture), was a Ukraine, Ukrainian p ...

Notable places

* Dnipro Main Post Office * Dnipro City Council * Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral

Neighborhoods

* City centre (TsUM) * Pidstantsiia * 12th Kvartal * Topolia * Koreia * Myrne * Mlyny * Krotova

Main streets

* Prospekt Dmytra Yavornytskoho (

Dmytro Yavornytsky Dmytro Ivanovych Yavornytsky ( uk, Дмитро́ Іва́нович Яворни́цький), or Dmitry Ivanovich Yavornitsky (also known as ''Dmitry Evarnitsky'', russian: Дмитрий Иванович Яворницкий; November 6, 1855, ...

Avenue), former Yekaterininsky and Karla Marksa * Sicheslavska naberezhna (Sicheslav Embankment), former Naberezhna Lenina * Vulytsia Sviatoslava Khorobroho ( Sviatoslav the Brave Street), former Bazarna and Chkalova * Vulytsia Mykhaila Hrushevskoho (

Mykhailo Hrushevsky Mykhailo Serhiiovych Hrushevsky ( uk, Михайло Сергійович Грушевський, Chełm, – Kislovodsk, 24 November 1934) was a Ukrainian academician, politician, historian and statesman who was one of the most important figure ...

Street), former Kazanska and Karla Libknekhta * Vulytsia Sichovykh Striltsiv (

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Street), former Oleksandrivska and

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* Prospekt Bohdana Khmelnytskoho (

Bohdan Khmelnytsky Bohdan Zynovii Mykhailovych Khmelnytskyi ( Ruthenian: Ѕѣнові Богданъ Хмелнiцкiи; modern ua, Богдан Зиновій Михайлович Хмельницький; 6 August 1657) was a Ukrainian military commander and ...

Avenue), former Dnipropetrovska street and Heroiv Stalinhrada street * Vulytsia Panikakhy ( Panikakha Street) * Zaporizke Shose (

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Chaussée) Note: In May 2015

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Petro Poroshenko Petro Oleksiyovych Poroshenko ( uk, Петро́ Олексі́йович Пороше́нко, ; born 26 September 1965) is a Ukrainian businessman and politician who served as the fifth president of Ukraine from 2014 to 2019. Poroshenko ser ...

signed a bill into law that started a six-month period for the removal of communist monuments and the mandatory renaming of settlements with a name related to

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. Hence

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in Dnipro was renamed in order to comply with these decommunization law.In Dnipropetrovsk, 57 place names were "decommunized" - streets, island and subway

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(24 November 2015) The city's name also changed from ''Dnipropetrovsk'' to its current name ''Dnipro'' in 2016.
Верховна Рада України (Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine)
''Поіменне голосування про проект Постанови про перейменування міста Дніпропетровська Дніпропетровської області (№3864) (Roll-call vote on the draft resolution on renaming of Dnipropetrovsk Dnipropetrovsk region №3864)'', 19 May 2016.

Gallery

File:Central post office of Dnipropetrovsk.jpg, Dnipro Main Post Office File:Утро на Днепре.jpg, Dnipro river embankment of Shevchenkivskyi District File:Cascade Plaza.jpg, Dmytro Yavornytsky Avenue in Shevchenkivskyi District File:European Square, Dnipro.jpg, European Square File:Успенський собор. Половиця.png, Shevchenkivskyi District in 1910 with the destroyed by the

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in 1936

References

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