Shevchenkivskyi District, Dnipro

The Shevchenkivskyi District (Ukrainian: Шевченківський район [uk]) 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
Flag Coat of arms
Coordinates: 48°31′16″N 34°58′42″E
Country	Ukraine
City	Dnipro
Established	12 April 1973[1]
Government
• Chairman of District Council	Oleh Yurashko
Area
• Total	31 km2 (12 sq mi)
Population  (2001 census)
• Total	159,914
• Density	5,200/km2 (13,000/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Area code	+380 562
KOATUU	1210136600[2]

For other uses, see Shevchenko Raion.

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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, in compliance with to comply with decommunization laws, the Dnipropetrovsk City Council renamed this district to its current name.^[5][4] The district is now named after the poet, writer, artist and political figure Taras Shevchenko.^[6]

Population

Language

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.

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.^[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]

Gallery

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