Samarskyi District ( uk, Самарський район) is an
urban district
Urban district may refer to:
* District
* Urban area
* Quarter (urban subdivision)
* Neighbourhood
Specific subdivisions in some countries:
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* Urban districts of Germany
* Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland) (hist ...
of the city of
Dnipro
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, in southern
Ukraine
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. It is located at the confluence of the
Dnieper
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and
Samara
Samara ( rus, Сама́ра, p=sɐˈmarə), known from 1935 to 1991 as Kuybyshev (; ), is the largest city and administrative centre of Samara Oblast. The city is located at the confluence of the Volga and the Samara (Volga), Samara rivers, with ...
rivers in the eastern and southeastern parts of the city.
History
The district was created on 6 April 1977
out of the neighborhood of
Samar
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previously in the
Industrialnyi District and the newly added cities of
Prydniprovsk (1956–1977) and
Ihren (1959–1977) as well as a historic Cossack settlement of Chapli.
Dnipro National University
Oles Honchar Dnipro National University (DNU, uk, Дніпровський національний університет імені Олеся Гончара) is an establishment of higher education in Dnipro, Ukraine. It was founded in 1918. ...
have discovered artifacts there dated around 1520s.[ Iryna Reva, Oleh Rypan. ]
The Old Samar (Cтара Cамар)
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. 18 July 2011
The town of Prydniprovsk was created around the Prydniprovsk State District Power Station (DRES), today a thermal power station
A thermal power station is a type of power station in which heat energy is converted to electrical energy. In a steam-generating cycle heat is used to boil water in a large pressure vessel to produce high-pressure steam, which drives a stea ...
that was built in 1954, while the town of Ihren was created around the Ihren Rail Station, which still exists since 1873.
Neighborhoods
* Chapli
* Ihren
* Kseniivka
* Nyzhnodniprovsk-Vuzol
* Odynkivka
* Pivnichnyi
* Prydniprovsk
* Samar, Dnipro
Samar ( uk, Самар, uk, Стара Самара, Old Samara) is a city neighborhood of the Samarskyi District (urban district) of the Dnipro Municipality in southern Ukraine. It is located at the mouth of Samara River on its right bank wher ...
* Shevchenko
* Stara Ihren
Gallery
File:Prydniprovsk Power Plant.jpg, Prydniprovsk Power Plant
File:Samars'kyi district, Dnipro, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine - panoramio (1).jpg, Church
File:South bridge Dnipropetrovsk from GOROD.DP.UA.jpg, South bridge
References
External links
* at the Dnipro City Council website
Urban districts of Dnipro
States and territories established in 1977
1977 establishments in Ukraine
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