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Dnipro is a major educational centre in Ukraine and is home to two of Ukraine's top-ten universities; the Oles Honchar Dnipro National University and Dnipro Polytechnic National Technical University. The system of high education institutions connects 38 institutions in Dnipro, among them 14 of IV and ІІІ levels of accreditation, and 22 of І ...
The river is also sometimes called by the Russian name Dnepr. The initial D in Dnieper is generally silent when pronounced in English, although it may be sounded: / ˈ n iː p ər / or / d ə ˈ n iː p ər /. It derives from Russian: Днепр, romanized: Dnepr [better source needed] (pre-revolutionary spelling Днѣпръ, Dněpr).
Dnieper Ukraine. Coordinates: 49.32°N 32.74°E. Dnieper Ukraine, 17th–18th centuries. The term Dnieper Ukraine [1] ( Ukrainian: Наддніпрянщина, romanized : Naddniprianshchyna, lit. 'over Dnieper land'), usually refers to territory on either side of the middle course of the Dnieper River. The Ukrainian name derives from nad ...
Kherson, the major city in the province, was the first city in Ukraine to be occupied by Kremlin-led forces during the invasion. This is the map from Oct. 3: However, over the past week, Russia ...
The history of Dnipro starts with the human settlement of the city, which is first attested in the Neolithic period. In the Antiquity, the area of the future city was ruled by Scythians and a number of other tribes. In the Middle Ages, an Orthodox monastery existed on one of the islands on the Dneper, which now lays in the city borders.
The Dnipropetrovsk Oblast is located by most part in eastern Ukraine (like Dnipro Raion and other eastern more raions), though it has some parts in central (like Kamianske Raion) and southern ( Nikopol Raion) Ukraine. The area of the oblast (31,974 km 2) comprises about 5.3% of the total area of the country. Its longitude from north to south is ...
Governing body. State Forestry Committee of Ukraine. Dnieper-Oril Nature Reserve ( Ukrainian: Дніпровсько-Орільский природний заповідник) is a strict nature reserve of Ukraine located in the center of the country in the valley of the Dnieper River. Administratively, the reserve is located in Dnipro Raion ...
Transnistria, officially known as the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic ( PMR ), [c] is a breakaway state internationally recognized as part of Moldova. Transnistria controls most of the narrow strip of land between the Dniester river and the Moldova–Ukraine border, as well as some land on the other side of the river's bank.