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The largest bus station in eastern Ukraine is located in Dnipro, from where bus routes are available to all over the country, including some international routes to Poland, Germany, Moldova and Turkey. It is located near the city's central railway station.
The Dnipropetrovsk Oblast is located by most part in eastern Ukraine (like Dnipro Raion and other eastern more raions), though it has some parts in central (like Kamianske Raion) and southern (Nikopol Raion) Ukraine. The area of the oblast (31,974 km 2) comprises about 5.3% of the total area of the country. Its longitude from north to south is ...
The history of Dnipro starts with the human settlement of the city, which is first attested in the Neolithic period. In the Antiquity, the area of the future city was ruled by Scythians and a number of other tribes. In the Middle Ages, an Orthodox monastery existed on one of the islands on the Dneper, which now lays in the city borders.
Installed capacity. 1,578.6 MW. The Dnieper Hydroelectric Station (Ukrainian: ДніпроГЕС, romanized: DniproHES), also known as the Dnipro Dam, is a hydroelectric power station in the city of Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. Operated by Ukrhydroenergo, it is the fifth and largest station in the Dnieper reservoir cascade, a series of hydroelectric ...
The first village located on what is now the Nyzhniodniprovskyi District was founded in the late 16th century, making the area one of the oldest inhabited parts of Dnipro. [ 1 ] History
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Category:Dnipro. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Dnipro. Location of Dnipro on the map of Ukraine. Dnipro is Ukraine's fourth largest city, with about one million inhabitants, and was also known as Dnipropetrovsk until May 2016. For now the oblast retains the name of Dnipropetrovsk as it requires a constitutional amendment to change it.
In 1976 a large monumental statue of Grigoriy Petrovsky, after whom the city was renamed in 1926, was erected on the square in front of the railway station. [4][5] This statue was destroyed by an angry mob on 29 January 2016. [4] On 19 May 2016 the official name of Dnipropetrovsk was changed to Dnipro. [6]