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Dnipro is Ukraine's fourth-largest city, with about one million inhabitants. It is located in the eastern part of Ukraine, 391 km (243 mi) southeast of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, on the Dnipro River, from which it takes its name. Dnipro is the administrative center of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. It hosts the administration of Dnipro urban hromada. Dnipro has a population of 968,502 (2022 estimate).
Current names
- Ukrainian: Дніпро
- Russian: Днепр, romanized: Dnepr
Former names
- Novyi Kodak 1645–1784
- Yekaterinoslav (also spelled Ekaterinoslav; Russian: Екатеринослав) or Katerynoslav (Ukrainian: Катеринослав) 1784–1796
- Novorossiysk (Russian: Новороссийск, Ukrainian: Ukrainian: Новоросійськ, romanized: Novorosiisk) 1796–1802, briefly renamed during the reign of Catherine II's hated son, tsar Paul I; however, the previous name was restored by tsar Alexander I after he had his father assassinated
- Yekaterinoslav 1802–1918, called Catharinoslav on some nineteenth-century maps.
- Sicheslav (Ukrainian: Січеслав) 1918–1921 (unofficial name)
- Yekaterinoslav/Katerynoslav 1918–1926
- Dnipropetrovsk (Ukrainian: Дніпропетровськ, also Dnipropetrovske (Ukrainian: Дніпропетровське) according to the Kharkiv orthography 1926–2016. The word originates from Ukrainian Дніпропетровськ, from Дніпро (Dnipro, "Dnieper River") + Петровський (Petrovsʹkyj), after Soviet revolutionary Grigory Petrovsky / Dnepropetrovsk (Russian: Днепропетровск,))
This project aims to share information about families who can trace their roots to Ekaterinoslav(now Dnipro), Ukraine. Please specify this project under documents issued in this locality, photos taken there, property images, and maps associated with this place.
Note from the creator of this project:
My great-grandparents came from Ekaterinaslav, Ukraine. Does anyone have access to documents from this city or have relatives from there? Thanks! (Matthew Jozoff)