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Sobornyi District, Dnipro

The Sobornyi District () is an urban district of the city of Dnipro, in southern Ukraine. It is located in the city's center on the right-bank of the Dnieper River.

History

According to archeological finds, in the Paleolithic period (7—3 thousand Anno Domini) human settlements appear on Monastyrskyi Island; which is located in Sobornyi District. Traces of Cimmerian settlements during the Bronze Age have been found near today's Sobornyi District's Taras Shevchenko Park.

The current district Sobornyi District was created on 16 March 1936 out of the Kirovskyi and Fabrychno-Chechelivskyi districts. In 1973, a portion of its territory was annexed to the newly created Babushkinskyi District. Before 26 November 2015 the district was named Zhovtnevyi (); on that day the district was renamed to comply with decommunization laws.

On 14 January 2023 a Russian missile destroyed a residential building on Sobornyi District's , 118; killing over 40 people.

Population

Language

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

Neighborhoods

  • Vuzivsky

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