Verkhniodniprovsk

Verkhniodniprovsk^[a] (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. Verkhniodniprovsk hosts the administration of Verkhniodniprovsk urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.^[1] Population:15,477 (2022 estimate).^[2] In 2001, the population was 16,976.

Verkhniodniprovsk Верхньодніпровськ
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Verkhniodniprovsk Location of Verkhniodniprovsk Show map of Ukraine Verkhniodniprovsk Verkhniodniprovsk (Dnipropetrovsk Oblast) Show map of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
Coordinates: 48°39′22″N 34°19′42″E
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
Raion	Kamianske Raion
Hromada	Verkhniodniprovsk urban hromada
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/

Until 18 July 2020, Verkhniodniprovsk was the administrative center of Verkhniodniprovsk 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 Verkhniodniprovsk Raion was merged into Kamianske Raion.^[3][4]

Transport

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

Notable people

• Verkhniodniprovsk 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 Verkhniodniprovsk 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]
• Yehor Yarmolyuk (born 2004), Ukrainian footballer

Gallery

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  Dnieper River
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  Verkhniodniprovsk church
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  Downtown
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  An old house
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  Air troops monument

Notes

1. Also rendered as Verkhnodniprovsk or Verkhnyodniprovsk

References

1. "Верхнеднепровская городская громада" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
2. 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.
3. "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ". Голос України (in Ukrainian). 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
4. "Нові райони: карти + склад" (in Ukrainian). Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України.
5. "A bust of Shcherbytskyi was dismantled in Dnipropetrovsk region". Istorychna Pravda (in Ukrainian). 18 January 2024. Retrieved 18 January 2024.

External links

• "City history" (in Russian).
• "Verkhnodniprovsk Raion economy" (in Ukrainian).