Urban district in Dnipro, Ukraine
The Shevchenkivskyi District (Ukrainian : Шевченківський район [uk ] right-bank urban district of the city of Dnipro , located in southern Ukraine .[ 3] Babushkinskyi District .[ 4]
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, in compliance with to comply with decommunization laws , the Dnipropetrovsk City Council renamed this district to its current name.[ 5] [ 4] Taras Shevchenko .[ 6]
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[a]
1 891
1.18%
Total
159 914
100.00%
a
Dnipro Main Post Office
Dnipro City Council
Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral City centre (TsUM)
Pidstantsiia
12th Kvartal
Topolia Koreia
Myrne
Mlyny
Krotova 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] Topograph in Dnipro was renamed in order to comply with these decommunization law .[ 9] Dnipropetrovsk to its current name Dnipro in 2016.[ 10]
^ "Shevchenkivskyi Raion" . Official Internet-portal (in Ukrainian). Dnipro City Council. Retrieved 25 July 2017 .^ "Industrialyni District Council" . Informational portal of the self-government in Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Rada.info. Retrieved 5 February 2015 .^ "Babushkinskyi Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, City of Dnipropetrovsk" . Regions of Ukraine and their Structure (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Retrieved 2 February 2015 .^ a b "In Dnipropetrovsk, the main highways and five districts of the city were renamed" (in Ukrainian). depo.ua . Retrieved 27 November 2015 .^ (in Ukrainian) Street signs were Dnipropetrovsk nedekomunizovanymy , Radio Svoboda (2 December 2015)^ "Why and how the districts of Dnipro were renamed: interesting facts" . Dniprograd.org (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 9 August 2016 .^ "Рідні мови в об'єднаних територіальних громадах України" (in Ukrainian).^ Poroshenko signed the laws about decomunization . Ukrayinska Pravda . 15 May 2015Poroshenko signs laws on denouncing Communist, Nazi regimes , Interfax-Ukraine . 15 May 20Goodbye, Lenin: Ukraine moves to ban communist symbols , BBC News (14 April 2015)^ In Dnipropetrovsk, 57 place names were "decommunized" - streets, island and subway , Ukrayinska Pravda (24 November 2015) (in Ukrainian) ^ "Dnipropetrovsk renamed Dnipro" . UNIAN. Retrieved 19 May 2016 . The decision comes into force from the date of its adoption. (in Ukrainian) 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.
Neighborhoods
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Subdivisions of Dnipro
