Dnipropetrovsk (other)
Dnipropetrovsk is the Soviet-era name of the city Dnipro in Ukraine, it may refer to: * Dnipro (, formerly Dnipropetrovsk), Dnipro Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine; the city and administrative centre * Dnipro Raion (, formerly Dnipropetrovsk Raion), Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine; a district * Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (), Ukraine; a province * Dnipro International Airport, (formerly Dnipropetrovsk International Airport), Ukraine * * Dnepropetrovsk maniacs, Ukrainian serial killers See also * Dniprovskyi District, Kyiv, Ukraine * Dnipropetrovsk Mafia, a group of Soviet politicians * * Dniprovskyi District (other) * Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (other) * Dnipro (other) Dnipro is a city in Ukraine. Dnipro is also an alternate name for the river Dnieper. Dnipro may also refer to: Places *Dnipro Valley, the river valley of the Dnipro *Dnipro Raion, Dnipro Oblast, Ukraine; a district *Dnipro Raion, Kyiv, Ukraine; ...

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 River, after which its Ukrainian language name (Dnipro) it is named. Dnipro is the administrative centre of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. It hosts the administration of Dnipro urban hromada. The population of Dnipro is Archeological evidence suggests the site of the present city was settled by Cossack communities from at least 1524. The town, named Yekaterinoslav (''the glory of Catherine''), was established by decree of the Russian Empress Catherine the Great in 1787 as the administrative center of Novorossiya. From the end of the nineteenth century, the town attracted foreign capital and an international, multi-ethnic, workforce exploiting Kryvbas iron ore and Donbas coal. Renamed ''Dnipropetrovsk'' in 1926 after the Ukrainian Communi ...
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Dnipro Raion
Dnipro Raion ( uk, Дніпровський район), until 2016 Dnipropetrovsk Raion ( uk, Дніпропетровський район) is a raion (district) of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, southeastern-central Ukraine. Its administrative centre is located at the city of Dnipro. Population: . On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast was reduced to seven, and the area of Dnipro Raion was significantly expanded. Three abolished raions, Petrykivka, Solone, and Tsarychanka Raions, as well as Dnipro Municipality, were merged into Dnipro Raion. The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was } Subdivisions Current After the reform in July 2020, the raion consisted of 17 hromadas: * Chumaky rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Chumaky, retained from Dnipro Raion; * Dnipro urban hromada with the administration in the city of Dnipro, transferred from Dnipro Municipality; * Kytaihorod rura ...
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Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast ( uk, Дніпропетро́вська о́бласть, translit=Dnipropetrovska oblast), also referred to as Dnipropetrovshchyna ( uk, Дніпропетро́вщина), is an oblast (province) of central-eastern Ukraine, the most important industrial region of the country. It was created on February 27, 1932. Dnipropetrovsk Oblast has a population of about approximately 80% of whom live centering on administrative centers: Dnipro, Kryvyi Rih, Kamianske, Nikopol and Pavlohrad. The Dnieper River runs through the oblast. In 2019, the Constitutional Court of Ukraine approved the change of the oblast's name to Sicheslav Oblast ( uk, Січесла́вська о́бласть, translit=Sicheslavska oblast). Geography The Dnipropetrovsk Oblast is located in southeastern Ukraine. The area of the oblast (31,974 km2) comprises about 5.3% of the total area of the country. Its longitude from north to south is 130 km, from east to west – 300&nbs ...
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Dnipro International Airport
Dnipro International Airport ( ua, Міжнародний аеропорт «Дніпро») was an airport serving Dnipro, a city in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine. It is located southeast from the city center. On 24 February 2022, Ukraine closed airspace to civilian flights due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. On 10 April 2022 a Russian attack completely destroyed the airport and the infrastructure nearby. Facilities The airport is at an elevation of above mean sea level. It had one runway designated 08/26 with a concrete surface measuring . The airport is currently owned by its major airline partner Dniproavia. This has resulted in a number of management problems and has slowed the airfield's development as Dniproavia has, on a number of occasions, refused to be forthcoming with the required funds to undertake a comprehensive modernization program. In addition to this, foreign airlines have found it difficult to gain access to Dnipro as a result of Dniproavia's protect ...
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Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs
, victims = 21 , country = Ukraine , beginyear = 25 June 2007 , endyear = 16 July 2007 , apprehended = 23 July 2007 , states = Dnipropetrovsk Oblast , conviction = Premeditated murder and animal cruelty (Sayenko and Suprunyuk) and robbery (Hanzha, Sayenko and Suprunyuk) , sentence = Life imprisonment for Sayenko and Suprunyuk; nine years' imprisonment for Hanzha The Dnepropetrovsk maniacs ( uk, Дніпропетровські маніяки, russian: Днепропетровские маньяки) are Ukrainian serial killers responsible for a string of murders in Dnipropetrovsk in June and July 2007. The case gained additional notoriety because the killers made video recordings of some of the murders, with one of the videos leaking to the Internet. Two 19‑year-olds, Viktor Sayenko ( uk, Віктор Саєнко, russian: Виктор Саенко), born 1 March 1988, and Igor Suprunyuk ( uk, Ігор Супрунюк, russian: Игорь Супрунюк), born 20 ...
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Dniprovskyi District, Kyiv
The Dniprovskyi District ( uk, Дніпровський район, ) is an urban district of the city of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. It is named after the Dnipro River and is located on its left-bank. Geography The Dniprovskyi District's area consists of a total of , which is approximately 8 percent of the city's total area. History On 23 May 1969, the Dniprovskyi District was established out of a portion of the city's Darnytskyi District based on a decree of the Presidium of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( uk, Украї́нська Радя́нська Соціалісти́чна Респу́бліка, ; russian: Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респ .... See also * Subdivisions of Kyiv References External links * Urban districts of Kyiv States and territories established in 1969 1969 establishments in Ukraine {{KyivCity-g ...
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Dnipropetrovsk Mafia
The "Dnipropetrovsk Mafia" was the name given to an informal group of Soviet politicians who held high office while Leonid Brezhnev was First Secretary or General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) in 1964–82, whom he knew from his time as a provincial party official in 1946–56. The group took its name from the Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine, where Leonid Brezhnev began his political career after graduating from the Dnipropetrovsk Metallurgical Institute. He was First Secretary of the Zaporizhzhia Oblast regional party committee in 1946–48, the Dnipropetrovsk party committee in 1948–50, and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Moldavia in 1950–52. Most members of the 'mafia' were pensioned off – or, in a few cases, arrested – either soon after Brezhnev died, in 1982, or when Mikhail Gorbachev took over as General Secretary of the CPSU in 1985. Members * Leonid Brezhnev, General-Secretary of the Communist Party 1964–1982. ...
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Dniprovskyi District
Dniprovskyi District or Dniprovskyi Raion, is a name of several urban districts in Ukraine: * Dniprovskyi District, Kamianske * Dniprovskyi District, Kyiv * Dniprovskyi District, Kherson * Dniprovskyi District, Zaporizhzhia See also * Kamianka-Dniprovska Raion, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine * Dniprovske district, Kamianske Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine * Dnipro Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine * Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (other) * Dnipropetrovsk (other) * Dnipro (other) Dnipro is a city in Ukraine. Dnipro is also an alternate name for the river Dnieper. Dnipro may also refer to: Places *Dnipro Valley, the river valley of the Dnipro *Dnipro Raion, Dnipro Oblast, Ukraine; a district *Dnipro Raion, Kyiv, Ukraine; ...

Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (other)
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk is the former name of Ukrainian professional football club in FC Dnipro. Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk may refer to: Places * Dnipro, a city in Ukraine * Dnipro Raion, a district in Ukraine Sports * FC Dnipro-2 Dnipropetrovsk, a Ukrainian reserve football team * FC Dnipro-3 Dnipropetrovsk, a Ukrainian football team * FC Dnipro-75 Dnipropetrovsk, a Ukrainian youth football school * Dnipro (bandy), a Ukrainian bandy club in Dnipro (former Dnipropetrovsk) * BC Dnipro, a Ukrainian professional basketball club in Dnipro (former Dnipropetrovsk) See also * * Dniprovskyi District (other) * Dnipropetrovsk (other) * Dnipro (other) Dnipro is a city in Ukraine. Dnipro is also an alternate name for the river Dnieper. Dnipro may also refer to: Places *Dnipro Valley, the river valley of the Dnipro *Dnipro Raion, Dnipro Oblast, Ukraine; a district *Dnipro Raion, Kyiv, Ukraine; ...