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Dnipro

, city, Ukraine

Dnipro (dənyĭprōˈ), formerly Dnipropetrovsk (dənyĭpˌrōpĕtrôfskˈ), Rus. Dnepropetrovsk, city, capital of Dnipropetrovsk region, central Ukraine, on the Dnieper River. A hub of rail and water transportation, it is a major industrial center with a huge iron and steel industry based on iron ore from the nearby Kryviy Rih mines and coal from the Donets Basin. The city also has plants producing heavy machinery, chemicals, rolling stock, and food products. Among its cultural institutions are art, historical, and zoological museums.

Founded in 1787 by Potemkin on the site of a Zaporozhian Cossack village, it was named Katerynoslav (Rus. Yekaterinoslav) for Catherine II. It was called Novorossiysk from 1791 to 1802 and Katerynoslav until 1926, when it was renamed Dnipropetrovsk after the Dnieper River and the Ukrainian Soviet leader Hryhoriy (or Grigory) I. Petrovsky. The population greatly increased after the completion (1932) of the Dniprohes dam and power station. The city was occupied (1941–43) by German forces during World War II. In 2016 it was renamed Dnipro.

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Dnipro

(Dnieper), a monthly Ukrainian literary and sociopolitical magazine; organ of the Central Committee of the Ukrainian Lenin Komsomol since 1927. It first appeared under the name Molodniak (1927-37) and later Molodoi bolshevik (1937-41). Publication of the magazine was discontinued for a three-year period but was resumed in 1944 under the name Dnipro. The magazine contains primarily works by young writers. Its circulation in 1971 was 63,000.

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Administrative Total Arable land Forest region area (%) (%) Lugansk 2670.0 1458.0 (54.6) 155.8 (5.8) Dniepropetrovsk 3190.0 2155.0 (67.6) 78.9 (3.7) Donetsk 2650.0 1686.0 (63.6) 94.2 (3.6) Odessa 3330.0 2081.0 (62.5) 72.6 (2.2) Kherson 2856.0 1712.2 (60.0) 45.0 (1.6) Zaporozhye 2730.0 1944.0 (71.2) 42.8 (1.6) Nikolayev 2450.0 1716.0 (70.1) 23.0 (0.9) Total: 19876.0 12752.2 (64.2) 512.3 (2.6) Table 2.

History and status of the population dynamics of moose in the steppe zone of Ukraine

Department of Gastroenterology, Ukraine Academy of Medical Science, Dniepropetrovsk, Ukraine

Further evidence on the effectiveness of potato juice in dyspeptic complaints

He later elaborates upon the "book's main themes" as "the construction of the local idea of the West through the consumption of Western cultural products, and the inclusion of this ideal in the identity formation of Dniepropetrovsk's youth" (p.

Zhuk 's richly textured account reveals not only the increasing Westernization and Russification of Dniepropetrovsk's youth culture but also the near constant tensions between center and periphery -- between local, republic, and all-Union factions -- over the goings-on in the city.

The listening, reading, and film viewing habits of Dniepropetrovsk's youth reveal many surprises and curiosities.

Rock and Roll in the Rocket City: The West, Identity, and Ideology in Soviet Dniepropetrovsk, 1960-1985

(5) Sergei Zhuk, Rock and Roll in the Rocket City: The West, Identity, and Ideology in Soviet Dniepropetrovsk, 1960-1985 (Washington, DC, and Baltimore: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010), 9.

Paulina Bren, The Greengrocer and His TV: The Culture of Communism after the 1968 Prague Spring

Zhuk, Rock and Roll in the Rocket City: The West, Identity and Ideology in Soviet Dniepropetrovsk, 1960-1985 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010); on the imaginary West under late socialism, see Alexei Yurchak, Everything Was Forever, until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006), chap.

The implications of transnationalism

See also Sergei Zhuk, Rock and Roll in the Rocket City: The West, Identity, and Ideology in Soviet Dniepropetrovsk, 1960-1985 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010).