Novopokrovka ( uk, Новопокровка; russian: Новопокровка) is an
urban-type settlement
Urban-type settlementrussian: посёлок городско́го ти́па, translit=posyolok gorodskogo tipa, abbreviated: russian: п.г.т., translit=p.g.t.; ua, селище міського типу, translit=selyshche mis'koho typu, ab ...
in
Dnipro Raion of
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast ( uk, Дніпропетро́вська о́бласть, translit=Dnipropetrovska oblast), also referred to as Dnipropetrovshchyna ( uk, Дніпропетро́вщина), is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, obla ...
in
Ukraine
Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...
. It is located on the banks of the
Komyshuvata Sura, a tributary of the
Mokra Sura in the drainage basin of the
Dnieper
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The Dnieper () or Dnipro (); , ; . is one of the major transboundary rivers of Europe, rising in the Valdai Hills near Smolensk, Russia, before flowing through Belarus and Ukraine to the Black Sea. It is the longest river of Ukraine and B ...
. Novopokrovka hosts the administration of
Novopokrovka settlement hromada, one of the
hromada
A hromada ( uk, територіальна громада, lit=territorial community, translit=terytorialna hromada) is a basic unit of administrative division in Ukraine, similar to a municipality. It was established by the Government of Ukra ...
s of Ukraine.
Population:
Until 18 July 2020, Novopokrovka belonged to
Solone Raion
Solone Raion ( uk, Солонянський район) was a raion (district) of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, southeastern-central Ukraine. Its administrative centre was located at the urban-type settlement of Solone. The raion was abolished on 18 Jul ...
. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast to seven. The area of Solone Raion was merged into Dnipro Raion.
Economy
Transportation
Novopokrovka has access to the
M04 highway connecting
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 ...
and
Kropyvnytskyi, as well as to P73 highway with further connections to
Zaporizhia and
Nikopol.
The closest railway station,
Ryasna
Ryasna (russian: рясна) was a part of a woman’s headgear, hanging from a diadem or as a Temple ring, temporal pendant.
It was a sign of family's prosperity common in 11th-13th centuries in Kievan Rus’, made in the shape of a chain linkin ...
, in the village of
Sviatovasylivka approximately north of Novopokrovka, is on the railway line connecting Dnipro and
Apostolove
Apostolove ( , russian: Апо́столово) is a city in Kryvyi Rih Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (province) of Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Apostolove urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: In 2001, the populat ...
. There is infrequent passenger traffic.
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Urban-type settlements in Dnipro Raion