Monastyrskyi Island

Monastyrskyi Island (Ukrainian: Монастирський острів) is an island within the boundaries of the Sobornyi district of the Ukrainian city of Dnipro near the right bank of the Dnipro river.

Monastyrskyi Island
Native name:
Монастирський острів
Monastyrskyi Island with a church and steep cliffs
Geography
LocationDnieper River
Area0.4 km2 (0.15 sq mi)
Highest pointN/A
Administration
Ukraine
Dnipro
Demographics
Population0

It is covered with granite rocks to the west which gradually turns into a sandy spit in the east of the island.

Part of the island belongs to the Taras Shevchenko city park. The island is connected to the city by a pedestrian bridge in its northern part.

History

The island got its name in the ninth century because of an unconfirmed belief that in that century Byzantine monks founded a monastery on the island, which in 1240 was destroyed by the Mongol-Tatars.[1]

In 1747 Ukrainian Cossacks did build a monastery on the island.[1]

In 1958 a monument to Taras Shevchenko was installed on the island.[2] There is also a memorial cross to the Byzantine monks, erected in 1994.[3]

In 1999 an Orthodox church of St. Nicholas was built on the northern part of the island.[1]

From 17 October 1929 until 24 November 2015 the island was officially named Komsomolsky Island (Ukrainian: Комсомольський острів), after the Komsomol political youth organization of the Soviet Union.[4][1][nb 1] It was renamed to its current name in order to comply with decommunization law.[4]

Archeology

In 1961 there were found several scraps and sharpener of ancient Stone Age by archaeologists.[6]

  • 2019 aerial photograph of Monastyrskyi Island
  • Monument to Taras Shevchenko on Monastyrskyi Island
  • Monastyrskyi Island beach
  • St. Nicholas church on Monastyrskyi Island
  • Waterfall on one of the island's steep cliffs

Notes
  1. Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union from 1920 until Ukraine declared its independence from the Soviet Union on 24 August 1991.[5]

References
  1. Monastyrsky (Komsomolsky) island. Historical background, Dmytro Yavornytskyi National Historical Museum (in Ukrainian)
  2. "В Днепропетровске есть подземное царство и "захоронен" Сталин?". kp.ua (in Russian). Retrieved 2019-07-07.
  3. "Памятный крест византийским монахам в Днепропетровске. Парковый комплекс имени Т. Г. Шевченко. - Путеводитель по Днепропетровcкой области". tourdnepr.com (in Russian). Retrieved 2019-07-07.
  4. In Dnipropetrovsk, 57 place names were "decommunized" - streets, island and subway, Ukrayinska Pravda (24 November 2015) (in Ukrainian)
  5. A History of Ukraine: The Land and Its Peoples by Paul Robert Magocsi, University of Toronto Press, 2010, ISBN 1442610212 (page 563/564 & 722/723)
  6. "Исследование памятников палеолита на территории Приднепровья (Study of Paleolithic monuments on the territory of the Dnieper region)". Dmytro Yavornytskyi National Historical Museum (in Russian). 2018-06-12. Archived from the original on 2018-06-12. Retrieved 2019-07-07.

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