Shevchenkivskyi District, Dnipro

The Shevchenkivskyi District (also Shevchenko 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. The district is now named after the poet, writer, artist and political figure Taras Shevchenko.

Population

Language

Distribution of the population by native language according to the 2001 census:

Notable places

Dnipro Main Post Office
Dnipro City Council
Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral

Neighborhoods

City centre (TsUM)
Pidstantsiia
12th Kvartal
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)

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 names related to Communism. Hence, the topography of Dnipro was renamed in order to comply with this decommunization law. The city's name also changed from Dnipropetrovsk to its current name Dnipro in 2016.