Novomoskovsk ( uk, Новомосковськ, Novomoskóvs’k, )is a
city
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and
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality'' may also mean the ...
in the
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast ( uk, Дніпропетро́вська о́бласть, translit=Dnipropetrovska oblast), also referred to as Dnipropetrovshchyna ( uk, Дніпропетро́вщина), is an oblast (province) of central-eastern Ukr ...
(
province
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) of
Ukraine
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and the administrative center of
Novomoskovsk Raion
Novomoskovsk Raion ( uk, Новомосковський район) is a raion (district) of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, southeastern-central Ukraine. Its administrative centre is located at Novomoskovsk. Population: .
On 18 July 2020, as part of the ...
(
district
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). As of January 2022 Novomoskovsk's population was approximately
Novomoskovsk is located predominantly on the right bank of
Samara River, which is one of the left
confluents of
Dnieper River
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. The city is located 27 kilometres from the oblast capital,
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 ...
.
The city is famous for the
Holy-Trinity Cathedral, built in 1778 by
Yakym Pohrybniak from wood without any nails.
In the past it was also known as Samara.
Until 18 July 2020, Novomoskovsk was incorporated as a
city of oblast significance and served as the administrative center of Novomoskovsk Raion though it did not belong to the raion. In July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast to seven, the city of Novomoskovsk was merged into Novomoskovsk Raion.
Gallery
File:Братські й настоятельські келії.jpg, Novomoskovsk monastery
File:Novomoskovsk Cathedral.JPG, Former synagogue building in Novomoskovsk
File:Новомосковськ Миколаївський собор.jpg, St. Nicholas Cathedral
File:Навчальний корпус Новомосковського кооперативного технікуму, Новомосковськ, вул. Радянська, 29.jpg, Novomoskovsk Technical Institute
File:Житловий будинок,Новомосковськ, вул. Радянська, 31.jpg, Stalinist architecture
File:Сучкова 15.jpg, A residential building in downtown Novomoskovsk
See also
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Samar, Dnipro
References
External links
Official city website
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Novomoskovsky Uyezd
Cities of regional significance in Ukraine
Holocaust locations in Ukraine
Cities in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast