Novomoskovsk, Ukraine

City in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine

Novomoskovsk Новомосковськ
City
Holy Trinity Cathedral
Flag Coat of arms
48°38′N 35°13′E / 48.633°N 35.217°E / 48.633; 35.217
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
Raion	Novomoskovsk Raion
Hromada	Novomoskovsk urban hromada
Founded	1672
City status	1784
Area
• Total	36 km² (14 sq mi)
Elevation	62 m (203 ft)
Population (2022)
• Total	69,855
• Density	1,900/km² (5,000/sq mi)
Postal code	51200-51214
Area code	+380-5693

Novomoskovsk (Ukrainian: Новомоскóвськ) is a city and municipality in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine. It serves as the administrative center of Novomoskovsk Raion within the oblast. Novomoskovsk is located predominantly on the right bank of the Samara River, a left tributary of the Dnieper River. The city is located 27 kilometres (17 mi) from the administrative center of the oblast, Dnipro. As of January 2022, Novomoskovsk's population was approximately 69,855.^[1]

History

The city has existed from the end of the 17th century.^[2] It was then known as Samara.^[2]^[3] In 18th century documents the city is also named Samarchyk, Novoselitsa or Palanka.^[2] The town was the administrative center of the Samara Palanka [uk] (province) of the Zaporozhian Cossacks.^[2] The Cossacks abandoned the town in 1688 when Russia built the Bogoroditsky Fortress in the city.^[2]

In 1777 a town named Yekaterinoslav (the glory of Catherine (Russian empress Catherine II)),^[4] was built on the location. The site was badly chosen – spring waters transformed the city into a bog.^[5]^[6] The surviving settlement was in 1794 renamed Novomoskovsk.^[2]^[7]^[8] The city name Yekaterinoslav was given to current Dnipro.^[6]

The city is famous for the Holy Trinity Cathedral, built in 1778 by Yakym Pohrybniak from wood without any nails. A novel dedicated to the cathedral by Ukrainian writer Oles Honchar became a classic of 20th-century Ukrainian literature.

In 1917 the Ukrainian People's Republic tried to rename Novomoskovsk to Samara.^[2]

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.^[9]^[10]

As part of the derussification campaign following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine Novomoskovsk is also set to change its name in the near future.^[2]^[11] On 3 November 2023 voting online and in person started for the new name of the city.^[12] The local residents options were: Novosamarsk, Novoselytsia and Samar.^[12] On 23 January 2024, the city council voted for the name Nova Samar (Ukrainian: Нова Самарь).^[13]

Notable people

Stepan Koval (born 1965), film director and animator
Viktor Skrypnyk (born 1969), football manager

Gallery

Novomoskovsk monastery
Former synagogue building in Novomoskovsk
St. Nicholas Cathedral
Novomoskovsk Technical Institute
Stalinist architecture
A residential building in downtown Novomoskovsk

References

^ Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2022 [Number of Present Population of Ukraine, as of January 1, 2022] (PDF) (in Ukrainian and English). Kyiv: State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 July 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h "Far from Moscow. How to rename the city of Novomoskovsk in the Dnipropetrovsk region?". Radio Free Europe (in Ukrainian). 13 May 2023. Retrieved 29 July 2023.
^ Mikhail Levchenko. Hanshchyna (Ганьщина Україна). Opyt russko-ukrainskago slovari︠a︡. Tip. Gubernskago upravlenii︠a︡, 1874.
^ Cybriwsky, Roman (2018). Along Ukraine's River: A Social and Environmental History of the Dnipro. Central European University Press. p. 61. ISBN 9789633862049.
^ "www.eugene.com.ua Dnepropetrovsk History". Eugene.com.ua. Retrieved 28 November 2014.
^ ^a ^b Establishment and development of the Dnipropetrovsk city (Виникнення і розвиток міста Дніпропетровськ). The History of Cities and Villages of the Ukrainian SSR.
^ (in Ukrainian) New Kodak, Museum Of Dnipro City History [uk] (26 March 2022)
^ S. S. Montefiore: Prince of Princes – The Life of Potemkin
^ "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ". Голос України (in Ukrainian). 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
^ "Нові райони: карти + склад" (in Ukrainian). Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України. 17 July 2020.
^ Sofia Skoryk (29 July 2023). "Renaming Novomoskovsk: how it will happen and what names are proposed". Informator (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 29 July 2023.
^ ^a ^b "Novomoskovsk is voting for a new city name - there are three options". Ukrinform (in Ukrainian). 3 November 2023. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
^ Rudenko, Iryna; Palamarchuk, Polina; Vahner, Olha (2024-01-23). "Новомосковськ на Дніпропетровщині отримав нову назву: за який варіант проголосували депутати". Suspilne (in Ukrainian).