+ Amur-Nyzhnodniprovskyi District Shevchenkivskyi District Sobornyi District Industrialnyi District Tsentralnyi District Chechelivskyi District Novokodatskyi District Samarskyi District 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. Street signs were Dnipropetrovsk nedekomunizovanymy, Radio Svoboda (2 December 2015) 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: Language Number Percentage Ukrainian 66 949 41.87% Russian 91 074 56.95% Other 1 891 1.18% Total 159 914 100.00% 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 names related to Communism.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) Hence, the topography of Dnipro was renamed in order to comply with this decommunization law.In Dnipropetrovsk, 57 place names were "decommunized" - streets, island and subway, Ukrayinska Pravda (24 November 2015) The city's name also changed from Dnipropetrovsk to its current name Dnipro in 2016. 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.
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