Verkhniodniprovsk

{{short description|City in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine}}

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| official_name = Verkhniodniprovsk

| native_name = {{lang|uk|Верхньодніпровськ}}

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| settlement_type = City

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| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = {{UKR}}

| established_title = Founded

| established_date = 1779

| established_title1 = City rights

| established_date1 = June 5, 1806

| leader_title = Mayor

| leader_name = Hennadiy Lebid'

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| population_as_of = 2001

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| population_total = 16976

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| postal_code_type = Postal code

| postal_code = 51600

| area_code = +380 5658

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| blank_name = Licence plate / 04

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| website = http://www.vdn.dp.ua/

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| subdivision_type2 = Raion

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| subdivision_type3 = Hromada

| subdivision_name1 = Dnipropetrovsk Oblast

| subdivision_name2 = Kamianske Raion

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Verkhniodniprovsk{{efn|Also rendered as Verkhnodniprovsk or Verkhnyodniprovsk}} ({{langx|uk|Верхньодніпровськ}}, {{IPA|uk|werxnʲod⁽ʲ⁾n⁽ʲ⁾iˈprɔu̯sʲk|pron}}) is a city in Kamianske Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (province) of Ukraine. The city is located at confluence of the {{Ill|Samotkan|uk|Самоткань (річка)}} into the Kamianske Reservoir at the Dnieper. Verkhniodniprovsk hosts the administration of Verkhniodniprovsk urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.{{cite web |title=Верхнеднепровская городская громада |url=https://gromada.info/ru/obschina/vdniprovska/ |publisher=Портал об'єднаних громад України |language=ru}} Population:{{Ua-pop-est2022|15,477|.}} In 2001, the population was 16,976.

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.{{Cite news|title=Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ.|url=http://www.golos.com.ua/article/333466|access-date=2020-10-03|date=2020-07-18|website=Голос України|language=uk}}{{cite web |title=Нові райони: карти + склад |url=https://www.minregion.gov.ua/press/news/novi-rajony-karty-sklad/ |publisher=Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України |language=Ukrainian}}

Transport

The city is located {{convert|13|km|0|abbr=on}} from train station named Verkhniodniprovsk in Novomykolaivka, {{convert|25|km|abbr=on}} north-west from Kamianske, {{convert|73|km|abbr=on}} 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.{{cite web |title=A bust of Shcherbytskyi was dismantled in Dnipropetrovsk region|url=https://www.istpravda.com.ua/short/2024/01/18/163559/|date=18 January 2024|access-date=18 January 2024|lang=Ukrainian|website=Istorychna Pravda}} 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." The bust was dismantled on 18 January 2024.
  • Yehor Yarmolyuk (born 2004), Ukrainian footballer

Gallery

File:Dnipr.JPG|Dnieper River

File:Verkhodniprovsk tserkov.JPG|Verkhniodniprovsk church

File:Werhniodniprowsk-1.JPG|Downtown

File:Zhiliščje v verkhnodniprovskje.JPG|An old house

File:Памятник 10-й гвардейской воздушно-десантной дивизии.jpg|Air troops monument

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