Novokodatskyi District ( uk, Новокодацький район) is an
urban district
Urban district may refer to:
* District
* Urban area
* Quarter (urban subdivision)
* Neighbourhood
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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 central
Ukraine
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. It is in the western part of the city and borders the city of
Kamianske
Kamianske ( uk, Кам'янське, ), formerly Dniprodzerzhynsk, is an industrial city in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast of Ukraine and a port on the Dnieper. Administratively, it serves as the administrative center of Kamianske Raion. Kamianske hosts ...
.
History
The area of the district includes many former
Cossack
The Cossacks , es, cosaco , et, Kasakad, cazacii , fi, Kasakat, cazacii , french: cosaques , hu, kozákok, cazacii , it, cosacchi , orv, коза́ки, pl, Kozacy , pt, cossacos , ro, cazaci , russian: казаки́ or ...
settlements
among which are Diiivka, Novi Kodaky, Sukhachivka and others.
[The oldest Cossack settlement within Dnipropetrovsk now has its own chronicle](_blank)
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(4 May 2010) Novi Kodaky was founded during the reign of
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 ...
as
Hetman of Zaporizhian Host
The Hetman of the Zaporizhian Host ( uk, Гетьман Війська Запорозького, la, Cosaccorum Zaporoviesium Supremus Belli Dux) was the head of state of the Cossack Hetmanate in what is now Ukraine. The office was disestablishe ...
and was the center of the "Kodak palanquin" of the
Zaporozhian Sich
The Zaporozhian Sich ( ua, Запорозька Січ, ; also uk, Вольностi Вiйська Запорозького Низового, ; Free lands of the Zaporozhian Host the Lower) was a semi-autonomous polity and proto-state of Cos ...
.
A trade route from
Poltava
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passed through Novi Kodak.
At the end of the 19th century the area became the center of the metallurgical industry of what is now Ukraine.
The colony of the
Bryansk plant was formed to house factory workers.
[History of the Novokodatskyi District](_blank)
Dnipro City Council Other settlements for
laborers
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grew together with it: Chechelivka, Shlyakhovka and Fabryka.
Near the factories a railway station – Horiayinove, a secondary school for 600 people and hospital were built.
In 1928, the
Ilyich Palace of Culture
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was built, and in 1936 the building of the Industrial Technical School was built.
The current district was created in 1940 out of the city's Kodatskyi and Fabrychno-Chechelivskyi districts.
[ In 2006, the old ]Cossack
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town of Taromske, which was located between former Dnipropetrovsk and former Dniprodzerzhynsk (now Kamianske
Kamianske ( uk, Кам'янське, ), formerly Dniprodzerzhynsk, is an industrial city in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast of Ukraine and a port on the Dnieper. Administratively, it serves as the administrative center of Kamianske Raion. Kamianske hosts ...
), was merged into the district. Taromske was located on the ancient road from Kyiv
Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the List of European cities by populat ...
to Khortytsia
Khortytsia ( uk, Хортиця, Hortycja, translit-std=ISO, ) is the largest island in the Dnieper river, and is long and up to wide. The island forms part of the Khortytsia National Park. This historic site is located within the city limit ...
.
Until 26 November 2015 the district was named after Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov. ( 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known as Vladimir Lenin,. was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 19 ...
( uk, Ленінський район, ''Leninskyi District''); that day it was renamed to Novokodatskyi District to comply with decommunization laws.[Street signs were Dnipropetrovsk nedekomunizovanymy]
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(2 December 2015)
Neighborhoods
* Bryanka
* Novi Kodaky (Novi Kaidaky)
* Diivka
* Diivka-2
* Chervony Kamin
* Pokrovsky
* Parus
* Sukhachivka
* Taromske
* Fabryka
* Krupske
* Nove
* Zakhidny
Gallery
File:Пішохідна частина.jpg, Pedestrian part of the district's
File:Dnipropetrovs'k S.Nigoyana 66 Bryans'ka Tserkva 02 (YDS 5884).jpg, on Serhiy Nigoyan
Serhiy Gagikovych Nigoyan or Nihoyan ( uk, Сергій Нігоян, hy, Սերգեյ Նիգոյան; August 2, 1993 – January 22, 2014) was an Armenian-Ukrainian Euromaidan activist who was fatally shot during the 2014 Hrushevskoho Stree ...
Avenue
Avenue or Avenues may refer to:
Roads
* Avenue (landscape), traditionally a straight path or road with a line of trees, in the shifted sense a tree line itself, or some of boulevards (also without trees)
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File:Дніпропетровськ. Будинок по вул. Квірінга, 7.jpg, Dwelling house of engineering and technical workers of the colony of the Bryansk plant on Belhiiska Street
References
External links
Novokodatskyi District
at the Dnipro City Council website
{{Dnipro
Urban districts of Dnipro
States and territories established in 1920
1920 establishments in Ukraine