Verkhnodniprovsk

The city was established in 1780 on the site of a Zaporozhian zymivnyk. During the Tsarist times it served as a povit centre. In 1926 its population reached 6,000 inhabitants. In 2001 the population was 16,976. Until 18 July 2020, Verkhnodniprovsk was the administrative center of Verkhnodniprovsk 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 Verkhnodniprovsk Raion was merged into Kamianske Raion. ==Demographics==

As of the 2001 Ukrainian census, Verkhnodniprovsk had a population of 16,680 inhabitants. The ethnic and linguitic composition of the population at the time of the census was as follows: ==Transport and economy==

Verkhniodniprovsk is located on the right bank of the Dnieper and serves as a river port. The city is located from train station named Verkhnodniprovsk in Novomykolaivka, north-west from Kamianske, north-west from Dnipro. A foundry and a mechanical plant have been operating in the city, as well as a button factory. ==Notable people==

• Vsevolod Balitsky (1892-1937), Bolshevik politician and NKVD officer. • Volodymyr Shcherbytsky (1918-1990), First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine from 1972 to 1989. On 4 April 2016 the bust of Shcherbytskyi in Verkhnodniprovsk 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." The bust was dismantled on 18 January 2024. • Yehor Yarmolyuk (born 2004), Ukrainian footballer, currently plays for Premier League team Brentford. ==Gallery==

File:Dnipr.JPG|Dnieper River File:Verkhodniprovsk tserkov.JPG|Verkhnodniprovsk church File:Werhniodniprowsk-1.JPG|Downtown File:Zhiliščje v verkhnodniprovskje.JPG|An old house File:Памятник 10-й гвардейской воздушно-десантной дивизии.jpg|Monument to the 10th Guards Airborne Division == Notes ==