Verkhnodniprovsk
Werchnjodniprowsk (Ukrainian Верхньодніпровськ; Russian Верхнеднепровск / Werchnedneprowsk ) is a city in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast of Ukraine with 15,700 inhabitants ( 2013) and the main town of the same name Rajons.
Geographical location
The city lies on the shores of pent-up for Dniprodserschynsker Dnepr dam and at the mouth of the 42 km long Samotkan (Ukrainian: Самоткань ) in these. On the opposite shore of the reservoir of the Dnepr -Donbass Canal begins. The 3500 population of the village is located on the Puschkariwka 's opposite shore of Samotkan. About the national highway that runs the place along the southeastern city Dniprodserschynsk is 33 km away and in due course to reach the southeast also located Oblasthauptstadt Dnipropetrovsk after 73 km.
History
The city was founded in the 17th century as Grigoriwka and renamed in 1785 in Nowogrigoriwka, 1806 officially got its current name and also the town charter. In the 19th century the city was the administrative center of Ujesd Werchnedneprowsk, a nearly 7,000 -acre management area within the province Jekaterinoslaw. After the attack on the Soviet Union, the city was occupied by the Wehrmacht and the main town of the district Werchne - Dnjeprowsk within the Reich Commissariat Ukraine.
Demographics
Source: 1939-1979; 1989-2013
Personalities
Werchnjodniprowsk is the birthplace of Vladimir Vasilyevich Schtscherbitzki (1918-1990), member of the Politburo of the CPSU from 1971 until 1989.
In addition, here the Marxist revolutionary and the first wife of Leon Trotsky, Alexandra Lvovna Sokolovskaya was born in 1872.
Rajon
The managed by Werchnjodniprowsk from Rajon Werchnjodniprowsk has an area of 1286 km ² and a population of 54 185 inhabitants ( 2012). The population density is 42 inhabitants of Rajon per km ².