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11 unusual facts about Dnipropetrovsk


Anatoliy Demyanenko

Demyanenko began his football career as a student of the Dnipro-75 football school in his home city of Dnipropetrovsk.

Kyrylo Fesenko

Born in Dnipropetrovsk, Fesenko began his basketball career in the Ukrainian Basketball SuperLeague, first with the second division team of BC Azovmash in 2003 then to its first division from 2004 to 2006.

LMR Liepāja

As winners of the Latvian Cup LMR participated in the Soviet Cup and after a loss in Dnipropetrovsk the clubs footballers made a mess in the train and were evicted by police from the train.

Masterok

Masterok (also spelled "Masterock") is a children's music band from Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine.

Neo-Communist Party of the Soviet Union

In all, there were 32 members in NCPSU, mainly in Moscow and Moscow Oblast, but there were also groups in Kirov (2 members), Leningrad (2 members), in Ukraine (Dnepropetrovsk, 2 members), in Georgia (Tbilisi and Rustavi, 2 members), in Latvia (Riga, 1 member).

Samuel Rabinovich

Samuel P. Rabinovich was born in 1909 in the village of Kamenka, Dnipropetrovsk region.

Serhiy Nazarenko

On 29 July, scoring two goals against FC Metalurh Donetsk, he became the top Dnipro's goalscorer in Ukrainian Premier League of all time with 32 goals, overtaking Oleh Venglinsky with 31.

State Space Agency of Ukraine

In 1954 the Soviet government transformed the initially intended car producer Yuzhmash (Dnipropetrovsk) into a rocket factory.

Ukrainian Railways

The largest stations are Nyzhnodniprovsk-Vuzol (in the city of Dnipropetrovsk) and Darnytsia (in the capital Kiev) – both freight.

The National Railway University in Dnipropetrovsk currently has 10 faculties as well as a technical school, a business school and branches in Odessa and Lviv, 450 professors and 39 separate fields of study related to Railway transport.

Vitaliy Reva

Born in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, Reva is a former goalkeeper for FC Dynamo Kyiv and the Ukrainian national football team.


2008 Abierto Mexicano Telcel

The women's field was led by Viña del Mar champion, three-time Acapulco finalist and 2005 titlist Flavia Pennetta, Dnipropetrovsk Satellite winner Alizé Cornet, and Viña del Mar finalist Klára Zakopalová.

2012 Dnipropetrovsk explosions

The Dnipropetrovsk attacks came 40 days ahead of the UEFA Euro 2012 games, hosted in Poland and Ukraine.

500th Anniversary of the Zaporozhian Cossacks

The event was organized by the People's Movement of Ukraine national political party, the Association of Ukrainian Language of Taras Shevchenko, and a number of local administrations, particularly from Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhia, and Nikopol.

Buzuluk

Bazavluk River, also known as Buzuluk, a river in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine

Causes of the Holodomor

In order to alleviate the situation, a system of food rationing was initially implemented in Odessa in the second quarter of 1928, and later spread to Mariupol, Kherson, Kiev, Dniprelstan (Dnipropetrovsk), and Kharkiv.

FC Dnepr

FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, football club from Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine that was known as FC Dnepr Dneprpetrovsk, the Russian language spelling of the club, during the Soviet control of Ukraine.

Hessam Nowzari

{nowzarisymposium.com} Nowzari is the founder of the Taipei Academy of Reconstructive Dentistry in Taiwan and one of only two American members of the Dnipropetrovsk State Academy of Medical Sciences in Ukraine.

SoftServe

The company is headquartered in Lviv, Ukraine and Fort Myers, Florida, while its development offices are located in the Ukrainian cities of Lviv, Dnipropetrovsk, Ivano-Frankivsk, Rivne, Chernivtsi, and Sevastopol.

Ukraine of the Future

During the 2010 Ukrainian local elections the party won 4 representatives in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Council (regional parliament) and 4 seat in the city council of Dnipropetrovsk.