Shevchenkivskyi District, Dnipro

Shevchenkivskyi District (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.[4]

Shevchenkivskyi District

Шевченківський район
Urban district
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Coat of arms
Coordinates: 48°31′16″N 34°58′42″E
Country Ukraine
MunicipalityDnipro Municipality
Established12 April 1973[1]
Government
 • Chairman of
District Council		Oleh Yurashko
Area
 • Total31 km2 (12 sq mi)
Population
 • Total159,914
 • Density5,200/km2 (13,000/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
Area code+380 562
KOATUU1210136600[2]
For other uses, see Shevchenko Raion.
  1. Amur-Nyzhnodniprovskyi District
  2. Shevchenkivskyi District
  3. Sobornyi District
  4. Industrialnyi District
  5. Tsentralnyi District
  6. Chechelivskyi District
  7. Novokodatskyi District
  8. Samarskyi 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.[5][4] The district is now named after the poet, writer, artist and political figure Taras Shevchenko.[6]

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.[7] Hence Topograph in Dnipro was renamed in order to comply with these decommunization law.[8] The city's name also changed from Dnipropetrovsk to its current name Dnipro in 2016.[9]

  • Dnipro Main Post Office
  • Dnipro river embankment of Shevchenkivskyi District
  • Dmytro Yavornytsky Avenue in Shevchenkivskyi District
  • European Square
  • Shevchenkivskyi District in 1910 with the Holy Dormition Cathedral destroyed by the Soviet Union in 1936

References
  1. "Shevchenkivskyi Raion". Official Internet-portal (in Ukrainian). Dnipro City Council. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
  2. "Industrialyni District Council". Informational portal of the self-government in Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Rada.info. Retrieved 5 February 2015.
  3. "Babushkinskyi Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, City of Dnipropetrovsk". Regions of Ukraine and their Structure (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
  4. "In Dnepropetrovsk, the main highways and five districts of the city were renamed" (in Ukrainian). depo.ua. Retrieved 27 November 2015.
  5. (in Ukrainian) Street signs were Dnipropetrovsk nedekomunizovanymy, Radio Svoboda (2 December 2015)
  6. "Why and how the districts of Dnipro were renamed: interesting facts". Dniprograd.org (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 9 August 2016.
  7. Poroshenko signed the laws about decomunization. Ukrayinska Pravda. 15 May 2015
    Poroshenko signs laws on denouncing Communist, Nazi regimes, Interfax-Ukraine. 15 May 20
    Goodbye, Lenin: Ukraine moves to ban communist symbols, BBC News (14 April 2015)
  8. In Dnipropetrovsk, 57 place names were "decommunized" - streets, island and subway, Ukrayinska Pravda (24 November 2015) (in Ukrainian)
  9. "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.
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