Yekaterinoslav / Katerynoslav 1918–1926.Sicheslav 1918–1921 (unofficial name).Over time, Dnipro has been known by a number of names:
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įollowing the onset of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, Dnipro rapidly developed as a logistical hub for humanitarian aid and a reception point for people fleeing the war on multiple fronts. On, Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada changed the official name of the city from Dnipropetrovsk to Dnipro. During the Ukrainian presidential election of 2004 the city achieved country-wide notoriety due to mass election fraud committed by local authorities. Because of its military industry, it functioned as a closed city until the 1990s. In particular, it is home to the Yuzhmash, a major space and ballistic-missile design bureau and manufacturer. Renamed Dniepropetrovsk in 1926, it became a vital industrial centre of Soviet Ukraine, one of the key centres of the nuclear, arms, and space industries of the Soviet Union. As governor-general of these territories, Grigory Potemkin originally envisioned the city as the Russian Empire's third capital city, after Moscow and Saint Petersburg. Known as Yekaterinoslav ( Ekaterinoslav) (Russian: Екатериносла́в, romanized: Yekaterinoslav Ukrainian: Катериносла́в, romanized: Katerynoslav ) until 1925, the city was formally inaugurated in 1787 by its then namesake, the Russian Empress Catherine the Great ( Russian: Екатери́на, romanized: Yekaterina), as the administrative centre of the newly acquired vast territories of imperial New Russia, including those ceded to Russia by the Ottoman Empire under the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca (1774). Other findings suggest that the town Samar, now a neighborhood in Dnipro's Samarskyi District, existed in the 1520s. Īrcheological findings suggest that the first fortified town in the territory of present-day Dnipro probably dates to the mid- 16th century. It hosts the administration of Dnipro urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Dnipro is the administrative centre of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.
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It is located in the eastern part of Ukraine, 391 km (243 mi) southeast of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on the Dnieper River, after which it is named. Dnipro ( Ukrainian: Дніпро ( listen)), previously called Dnipropetrovsk ( Ukrainian: Дніпропетро́вськ ) from 1926 until May 2016, is Ukraine's fourth-largest city, with about one million inhabitants.