Verkhnodniprovsk

City in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine

Place

Verkhnodniprovsk Верхньодніпровськ

Flag Coat of arms
48°39′22″N 34°19′42″E / 48.65611°N 34.32833°E / 48.65611; 34.32833
Country Oblast Raion	Ukraine Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Kamianske Raion
Founded	1779
City rights	June 5, 1806
Government
• Mayor	Hennadiy Lebid'
Population (2001)
• Total	16,976
Postal code	51600
Area code	+380 5658
Licence plate / 04	АЕ
Website	http://www.vdn.dp.ua/

Verkhnodniprovsk (or Verkhnyodniprovsk, Ukrainian: Верхньодніпровськ, pronounced [werxnʲod⁽ʲ⁾n⁽ʲ⁾iˈprɔu̯sʲk]) is a city in Kamianske Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (province) of Ukraine. The city is located at confluence of the Samotkan into the Kamianske Reservoir at the Dnieper. Verkhnodniprovsk hosts the administration of Verkhnodniprovsk urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.^[1] Population:15,477 (2022 estimate).^[2] In 2001, the population was 16,976.

Until 18 July 2020, Verkhnodniprovsk was the administrative center of Verkhnodniprovsk Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast to seven. The area of Verkhnodniprovsk Raion was merged into Kamianske Raion.^[3]^[4]

Transport

The city is located 13 km (8 mi) from train station named Verkhnodniprovsk in Novomykolaivka, 25 km (16 mi) north-west from Kamianske, 73 km (45 mi) north-west from Dnipro.

Notable people

Verkhnodniprovsk was the birthplace of politician Volodymyr Shcherbytsky, who served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine from 1972 to 1989.^[5] On 4 April 2016 the bust of Shcherbytskyi in Verkhnodniprovsk was removed from the state register and lost its status of being a monument, instead the city council gave it the status of "an integral element of landscaping."^[5] The bust was dismantled on 18 January 2024.^[5]

Gallery

Dnieper River in Verkhnodniprovsk
Verkhnodniprovsk church
Downtown Verkhnodniprovsk
An old house
Air troops monument

References

^ "Верхнеднепровская городская громада" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
^ 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.
^ "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.
^ ^a ^b ^c "A bust of Shcherbytskyi was dismantled in Dnipropetrovsk region". Istorychna Pravda (in Ukrainian). 18 January 2024. Retrieved 18 January 2024.