Shevchenkivskyi District, Dnipro Explained
| Shevchenkivskyi District |
| Native Name: | Шевченківський район |
| Native Name Lang: | uk |
| Settlement Type: | Urban district |
| Coordinates: | 48.5211°N 34.9783°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Municipality |
| Subdivision Name1: | Dnipro Municipality |
| Established Title: | Established |
| Established Date: | 12 April 1973[1] |
| Leader Title: | Chairman of
District Council |
| Leader Name: | Oleh Yurashko |
| Unit Pref: | Metric |
| Area Total Km2: | 31 |
| Population As Of: | 2001 census |
| Population Total: | 159914 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Timezone: | EET |
| Utc Offset: | +2 |
| Timezone Dst: | EEST |
| Utc Offset Dst: | +3 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Area Code Type: | Area code |
| Area Code: | +380 562 |
| Blank Name Sec1: | KOATUU |
| Blank Info Sec1: | 1210136600[2] |
(Ukrainian:
Шевченківський район) is a
right-bank urban district of the city of
Dnipro, located in southern
Ukraine.
[3] It is formerly known as
Babushkinskyi District.
History
The district was formed on 12 April 1973 from the territory of Zhovtnevyi, Kirovskyi and Krasnohvardiiskyi districts and was named after Russian Bolshevik revolutionary Ivan Babushkin. On 26 November 2015 the district was renamed by the Dnipropetrovsk city council to its current name to comply with decommunization laws.[4] [5] The district is now named after the poet, writer, artist and political figure Taras Shevchenko.[6]
Population
Language
Distribution of the population by native language according to the 2001 census:[7]
| Language | Number | Percentage |
|---|
| Ukrainian | 66 949 | 41.87% |
| Russian | 91 074 | 56.95% |
| Other | 1 891 | 1.18% |
| Total | 159 914 | 100.00% | |
| Those who did not indicate their native language or indicated a language that was native to less than 1% of the local population. | |
Notable places
- Dnipro Main Post Office
- Dnipro City Council
- Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral
Neighborhoods
- City centre (TsUM)
- Pidstantsiia
- 12th Kvartal
- Topolia
- Koreia
- Myrne
- Mlyny
- Krotova
Main streets
- Prospekt Dmytra Yavornytskoho (Dmytro Yavornytsky Avenue), former Yekaterininsky and Karla Marksa Sicheslavska naberezhna (Sicheslav Embankment), former Naberezhna Lenina
- Vulytsia Sviatoslava Khorobroho (Sviatoslav the Brave Street), former Bazarna and Chkalova
- Vulytsia Mykhaila Hrushevskoho (Mykhailo Hrushevsky Street), former Kazanska and Karla Libknekhta
- Vulytsia Sichovykh Striltsiv (Sich Riflemen Street), former Oleksandrivska and Artema
- Prospekt Bohdana Khmelnytskoho (Bohdan Khmelnytsky Avenue), former Dnipropetrovska street and Heroiv Stalinhrada street
- Vulytsia Panikakhy (Panikakha Street)
- Zaporizke Shose (Zaporizhzhia Chaussée)
Note: In May 2015 President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko signed a bill into law that started a six-month period for the removal of communist monuments and the mandatory renaming of settlements with a name related to Communism.[8] Hence Topograph in Dnipro was renamed in order to comply with these decommunization law.[9] The city's name also changed from Dnipropetrovsk to its current name Dnipro in 2016.[10]
Notes and References
- Web site: Shevchenkivskyi Raion. Official Internet-portal. Dnipro City Council. 25 July 2017. Ukrainian.
- Web site: Industrialyni District Council. Informational portal of the self-government in Ukraine. Rada.info. 5 February 2015. Ukrainian.
- Web site: Babushkinskyi Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, City of Dnipropetrovsk. Regions of Ukraine and their Structure. Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. 2 February 2015. Ukrainian.
- Street signs were Dnipropetrovsk nedekomunizovanymy, Radio Svoboda (2 December 2015)
- Web site: In Dnepropetrovsk, the main highways and five districts of the city were renamed. depo.ua. 27 November 2015. Ukrainian.
- Web site: Why and how the districts of Dnipro were renamed: interesting facts. Dniprograd.org. 9 August 2016. Ukrainian.
- Web site: uk . Рідні мови в об'єднаних територіальних громадах України.
- http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2015/05/15/7068057/ Poroshenko signed the laws about decomunization
- http://www.istpravda.com.ua/short/2015/11/24/148799/ In Dnipropetrovsk, 57 place names were "decommunized" - streets, island and subway
- News: Dnipropetrovsk renamed Dnipro. 19 May 2016. UNIAN. The decision comes into force from the date of its adoption..
Верховна Рада України (Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine), Поіменне голосування про проект Постанови про перейменування міста Дніпропетровська Дніпропетровської області (№3864) (Roll-call vote on the draft resolution on renaming of Dnipropetrovsk Dnipropetrovsk region №3864), 19 May 2016.
