Dnipropetrovsk - one of the most beautiful cities of Ukraine, located on both banks of Dnepr. A city Dnipropetrovsk, as Екатеринослав, was founded by a prince Г.Потемкиным in 1787 in place of the Zaporizhzhya suburb floor Board and got naming after Catherine of ІІ, but farther more on the order of Paul of І renamed on Novorossisk (1796-1802) and only in 1924 renamed to Dnipropetrovsk.
Among sights of Dnipropetrovsk it is especially needed to distinguish the Monasterial island. First an island is mentioned in chronicles as a north point, where reached with the mission one of students of Christ - Andrey Первозванный. Existing gave the name an island here in 9 century the Byzantine monastery. In the middle of past century on an island a park was stopped up, and quite recently, the Orthodox temple was built in 1999
Dnipropetrovsk is the largest center of Приднепровья, one of the most beautiful cities of Ukraine, located in the middle flow of the river Dnepr in central Ukraine. Population of city 1,047 million persons Center