Verkhniodniprovsk

Verkhniodniprovsk

Верхньодніпровськ
Verkhniodniprovsk Верхньодніпровськ
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	Verkhniodniprovsk Location of Verkhniodniprovsk Verkhniodniprovsk Verkhniodniprovsk (Dnipropetrovsk Oblast)
	Coordinates: 48°39′22″N 34°19′42″E / 48.65611°N 34.32833°E
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
Raion	Kamianske Raion
Hromada	Verkhniodniprovsk urban hromada
Founded	1779
City rights	June 5, 1806
Government
• Mayor	Hennadiy Lebid'
Population (2001)
• Total	16,976
Postal code	51600
Area code	+380 5658
Licence plate / 04	АЕ
Website	http://www.vdn.dp.ua/

Verkhniodniprovsk^[a] (Ukrainian: Верхньодніпровськ, pronounced [werxnʲod⁽ʲ⁾n⁽ʲ⁾iˈprɔu̯sʲk]) is a city in Kamianske Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (province) of Ukraine. The city is located at confluence of the Samotkan into the Kamianske Reservoir at the Dnieper. Verkhniodniprovsk hosts the administration of Verkhniodniprovsk urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.^[1] Population:15,477 (2022 estimate).^[2] In 2001, the population was 16,976.

Until 18 July 2020, Verkhniodniprovsk was the administrative center of Verkhniodniprovsk Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast to seven. The area of Verkhniodniprovsk Raion was merged into Kamianske Raion.^[3]^[4]

Transport

The city is located 13 km (8 mi) from train station named Verkhniodniprovsk in Novomykolaivka, 25 km (16 mi) north-west from Kamianske, 73 km (45 mi) north-west from Dnipro.

Notable people

Verkhniodniprovsk was the birthplace of politician Volodymyr Shcherbytsky, who served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine from 1972 to 1989.^[5] On 4 April 2016 the bust of Shcherbytskyi in Verkhniodniprovsk was removed from the state register and lost its status of being a monument, instead the city council gave it the status of "an integral element of landscaping."^[5] The bust was dismantled on 18 January 2024.^[5]
Yehor Yarmolyuk (born 2004), Ukrainian footballer