Dnipro railway station
Railway station in Dnipro, Ukraine From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dnipro-Holovnyi is the main railway station of Dnipro. Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine.
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Dnipro-Holovnyi | ||||||
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| Near-Dnipro Railway terminal | ||||||
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| General information | ||||||
| Location |  Ukraine, Dnipro | |||||
| Owned by | Ukrainian Railways (Near-Dnipro Railway) | |||||
| Platforms | 12 | |||||
| Tracks | 24 | |||||
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| Parking | yes | |||||
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| Station code | 45100 | |||||
| History | ||||||
| Opened | 1884[1] | |||||
| Electrified | yes | |||||
| Previous names | Yekaterinoslav (1884-1926) | |||||
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The station was opened in 1884, called Ekaterinoslav.
July 20, 1926, the Presidium of the USSR Central Executive Committee of the city and station Ekaterinoslav was renamed to Dnipropetrovsk.[2]
During the Holodomor, British journalist Gareth Jones noted that it was filled with starving peasants desperate for food.[3]
During World War II the building was destroyed and in its place under the project of architect Alexey Dushkin in 1951 and built a new station building.
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] Hence the official name of the station was changed to Dnipro-Holovnyi.[7]
Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine Dnipro city became an important logistic point for refugees and army
As for the April 2023, next routes are set[8]
Passing trains:
- Yasinia — Zaporizhzhia
- Kharkiv — Odesa
- Kharkiv — Uman
- Kovel — Zaporizhzhia
- Kramatorsk — Odesa
- Kyiv — Zaporizhzhia
- Lviv — Pokrovsk
- Przemyśl (Poland) — Zaporizhzhia
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