Tsentralnyi District ( uk, Центральний район) is an

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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 ...

, in southern

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. It is located in the city's center and on the right-bank of the

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History

The district was originally created in 1932 as the Tsentralnyi Nahornyi District. on 2 December 1934, after the death of

Sergei Kirov Sergei Mironovich Kirov (né Kostrikov; 27 March 1886 – 1 December 1934) was a Soviet politician and Bolshevik revolutionary whose assassination led to the first Great Purge. Kirov was an early revolutionary in the Russian Empire and membe ...

, it was renamed as the Kirovskyi District. In 1936 the eastern part of district became the Zhovtnevyi District. In 1973 more territories of the Kirovskyi District were passed to the newly formed Babushkinskyi District. The district gained its current name, Tsentralnyi District, on 27 November 2015 when it was renamed as part of Ukraine's decommunization campaign.

Gallery

File:Hloba Entrance.jpg, in Tsentralnyi District File:Hloby Park.jpg, Modern buildings in central part of Dnipro File:Theatre of Opera and Ballet in Dnipropetrovsk.jpg, National academic Theatre of opera and ballet File:Площа з висоти пташиного польоту.jpg,

Dnipro railway station Dnipro-Holovnyi is the main railway station of Dnipro. Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine. History The station was opened in 1884, called ''Ekaterinoslav''. July 20, 1926, the Presidium of the USSR Central Executive Committee of the city and sta ...

and surrounding buildings File:Stalinist Architecture Dnipropetrovsk.jpg,

Stalinist architecture Stalinist architecture, mostly known in the former Eastern Bloc as Stalinist style () or Socialist Classicism, is the architecture of the Soviet Union under the leadership of Joseph Stalin, between 1933 (when Boris Iofan's draft for the Palace ...

on the

References

External links

Tsentralnyi Raion
at the Dnipro City Council website Urban districts of Dnipro States and territories established in 1932 1932 establishments in Ukraine {{Dnipropetrovsk-geo-stub