Urban district in Dnipro Municipality, Ukraine
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]
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]
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 Those who did not indicate their native language or indicated a language that was native to less than 1% of the local population.
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] Hence
Topograph in Dnipro was renamed in order to comply with these
decommunization law .
[9] The city's name also changed from Dnipropetrovsk to its current name Dnipro in 2016.
[10]
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"Shevchenkivskyi Raion" . Official Internet-portal (in Ukrainian). Dnipro City Council. Retrieved 25 July 2017 .
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"Industrialyni District Council" . Informational portal of the self-government in Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Rada.info. Retrieved 5 February 2015 .
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"Babushkinskyi Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, City of Dnipropetrovsk" . Regions of Ukraine and their Structure (in Ukrainian).
Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Retrieved 2 February 2015 .
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a
b
"In Dnepropetrovsk, the main highways and five districts of the city were renamed" (in Ukrainian).
depo.ua . Retrieved 27 November 2015 .
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Street signs were Dnipropetrovsk nedekomunizovanymy ,
Radio Svoboda (2 December 2015)
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"Why and how the districts of Dnipro were renamed: interesting facts" . Dniprograd.org (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 9 August 2016 .
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"Рідні мови в об'єднаних територіальних громадах України" (in Ukrainian).
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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)
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In Dnipropetrovsk, 57 place names were "decommunized" - streets, island and subway ,
Ukrayinska Pravda (24 November 2015) (in Ukrainian)
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"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
1 Non-administrative neighborhoods
2 Urban-type settlement until September 2001
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