The Shevchenkivskyi District is a right-bank urban district of the city of Dnipro, located in southern Ukraine. It is formerly known as Babushkinskyi 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, in compliance with to comply with decommunization laws, the Dnipropetrovsk City Council renamed this district to its current name.34 The district is now named after the poet, writer, artist and political figure Taras Shevchenko.5
Population
Language
Distribution of the population by native language according to the 2001 census:6
| 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.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
Gallery
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Shevchenkivskyi district, Dnipro.References
"Babushkinskyi Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, City of Dnipropetrovsk". Regions of Ukraine and their Structure (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Retrieved 2 February 2015. http://w1.c1.rada.gov.ua/pls/z7502/A005?rdat1=02.02.2015&rf7571=6880 ↩
"In Dnipropetrovsk, the main highways and five districts of the city were renamed" (in Ukrainian). depo.ua. Retrieved 27 November 2015. https://dnipro.depo.ua/ukr/dnipro/u-dnipropetrovsku-pereymenuvali-osnovni-magistrali-ta-27112015125000 ↩
(in Ukrainian) Street signs were Dnipropetrovsk nedekomunizovanymy, Radio Svoboda (2 December 2015) http://www.radiosvoboda.mobi/a/27401886.html ↩
"In Dnipropetrovsk, the main highways and five districts of the city were renamed" (in Ukrainian). depo.ua. Retrieved 27 November 2015. https://dnipro.depo.ua/ukr/dnipro/u-dnipropetrovsku-pereymenuvali-osnovni-magistrali-ta-27112015125000 ↩
"Why and how the districts of Dnipro were renamed: interesting facts". Dniprograd.org (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 9 August 2016. https://dniprograd.org/2016/09/08/chomu-i-yak-pereymenuvali-rayoni-dnipra-tsikavi-fakti_49182 ↩
"Рідні мови в об'єднаних територіальних громадах України" (in Ukrainian). https://socialdata.org.ua/projects/mova-2001/ ↩
Poroshenko signed the laws about decomunization. Ukrayinska Pravda. 15 May 2015Poroshenko signs laws on denouncing Communist, Nazi regimes, Interfax-Ukraine. 15 May 20Goodbye, Lenin: Ukraine moves to ban communist symbols, BBC News (14 April 2015) http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2015/05/15/7068057/ ↩
In Dnipropetrovsk, 57 place names were "decommunized" - streets, island and subway, Ukrayinska Pravda (24 November 2015) (in Ukrainian) http://www.istpravda.com.ua/short/2015/11/24/148799/ ↩
"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. https://www.unian.info/politics/1349664-dnipropetrovsk-renamed-dnipro.html ↩