Dnipropetrovs’k region (oblast’) – information card
Dnipropetrovs’k region (oblast’) – information card
Dnipropetrovs’k
region (oblast’)
Regional center – Dnipropetrovs’k
History
As archeological
investigations testify the region settling initiated about 100 thousand
years ago. There are about 80 places along shore
of Dnipro and Samara (within
the limits of Verkhnjodniprovsky, Solonyansky, Pavlogradsky and
Petropavlivsky regions) where flinty implements of paleolith epoch had
been found.
The territory was
densely populated in the bronze epoch (the III-the beginning of the I
century B.C.). In the VIII century the Scythian tribes came from the east
in steppe regions of Dnipropetrivshchyna. The first iron mines of
Kryvorizhya appeared in this period. In VI-VIII centuries the first
settlements of the annalistic Slavs appeared on shores of Dnipro within
the region. In the period of the Kyiv Rus (IX-XII A.D.) down OreliRiver it bordered upon the
lands of nomads where more than once the Russian army engaged with polovtsy.
Mongolian-Tatar invasion devastated Prydniprov’ya. This territory was
named as “The Wild Field”.
The Head, two first deputies of the Head and 9 deputies of the
Head form the leadership of Dnipropetrovs’k oblast’.
According to the Constitution of Ukraine on local state
administrations, heads of local state administrations form the staff of
local state administrations as well.
Within budget assignments, prescribed for corresponding local
state administrations support, their heads define the structure of local
state administrations.
Enumeration of offices, departments and other structural
subdivisions of local state administrations as well as typical provisions
are to be ratified by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
The structure of Dnipropetrovs’k oblast’ comprises the: Main
Administration for economics; Main Administration of industry; Main
Administration of building and architecture; Main Administration of
agriculture and food; Main Administration of labour and social protection
of population; Main Administration of emergencies and affairs of
population protection from consequences of Chornobyl catastrophe; Main
Administration of foreign relations and foreign economic activity;
Dnipropetrovs’ka regional sanitary and epidemic station; State Tax
Administration in Dnipropetrovs’k oblast’; Administration of State
Treasury of Ukraine in Dnipropetrovs’k oblast’.
Dnipropetrovs’k
oblast’ is situated in the eastern Ukraine.
Its territory is 31,9 thousand sq. km. The region borders upon Donets’k,
Zaporizhya, Kirovohrad, Mykolayiv, Poltava,
Kharkiv and Kherson regions.
Administrative center is the city of Dnipropetrovs’k.
Population
On the territory
of Dnipropetrovs’k oblast’
31,9 thousand sq. km (5,3% of Ukrainian square) reside, according to data
on December, 2001, 3648,1 thousand people (7,5%).
Economic
potential
Dnipropetrovs’k
oblast’ has a powerful industry potential. It is characterized by high
heavy industry development level. There are 712 basic industry
enterprises including 20 principle types of economic activity with 473,4
thousand workers. Dnipropetrovshchyna produces 16,9% of total industry
production of Ukraine.
According to this index the region takes the second place in Ukraine.
Culture and
traditions
The oblast’ is an
industrial, scientific and cultural center of Ukraine
with the population more than 1 million people. Dnipropetrovs’k is a city
of parks, squares, modern architecture and picturesque banks of Dnipro.
The city had been closed for the foreigners because of important military
objects deployment here for a long time. Dnipropetrovs’k produced soviet
cruise missiles SS-20. Extensive collections of the historical museum
of D. Yavornytsky demonstrates
the history of this land since ancients ages up to the present.
The most famous
tourist objects are cultural and architectural memorials in the village
of Starykh Kodakakh, battlegroundsof Cossack army with Polish gentry at the town of Zhovti Vody and
village Knyazhi Bajraky, historical and architectural memorials in
Dnipropetrovs’k; places related to Dnipro forced crossing in the years of
the World War II, Scythian tumuli of IV centure B.C., settlements of
Cossack Sich, museum of art in Petrikivtsi.
The oblast’ is
situated in steppe and forest-steppe physiographic zones (forests occupy
3,9% of the territory). Average temperature: in winter balances from -5
to -7 C, in summer - +22 - +23C. Average annual rainfall – 400-490 ml.
Dnipropetrovshchyna has splendid flora and fauna: there are more than
1700 kinds of vegetation, 7500 kinds of animals (elk, wild boar, dappled
deer, roe, hare, fox, wolf etc.) There are 114 nature and park objects of
approximately 26 thousand hectare of total square.
The center of
oblast’ is the city of Dnipropetrovs’k
situated on both banks of Dnipro in the southeastern part of Ukraine.
People found these places in ancient times. Tender climate, boundless
steppes with fertile black earth, luxuriant grasses, potent deep Dnipro
with picturesque islands, peaceful riverside haves and stretches, rich
flood plains, shady oak woods along river valleys and steppe gullies, a
number of animals, birds, fish attracted here hunters, fishers,
cattle-breeders and ploughmen from of old.
Today Dnipropetrovs’k
oblast’ has 105 nature and park territories and objects including 15
state reserves; 3 nature memorials, 24 local parks; 7 landscape parks; 3
park tracts.
Tender climate,
mineral sources, and curative mud of Dnipropetrovshchyna – create the opportunities
for the rest and cure. There are 21 health-centers and medicated
pensions, 10 rest homes, recreation departments and rest camps for
children.
