Novokodatskyi District
Новокодацький район | |
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Coordinates: 48°28′30″N 34°56′42″E / 48.47500°N 34.94500°E | |
Country | Ukraine |
Municipality | Dnipro Municipality |
Established | 1920[1] |
Government | |
• Chairman of District Council | Oleh Denysenko[2] |
Area | |
• Total | 88.7 km2 (34.2 sq mi) |
Population | |
• Total | 161,026 |
• Density | 1,800/km2 (4,700/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Area code | +380 562 |
KOATUU | 1210138100[3] |
Novokodatskyi District (Ukrainian: Новокодацький район) is an urban district of the city of Dnipro, in central Ukraine.[4][5] It is in the western part of the city and borders the city of Kamianske.
The area of the district includes many former Cossack settlements[6] among which are Diiivka, Novi Kodaky, Sukhachivka and others.[7] Novi Kodaky was founded during the reign of Bohdan Khmelnytsky as Hetman of Zaporizhian Host and was the center of the "Kodak palanquin" of the Zaporozhian Sich.[8] A trade route from Poltava passed through Novi Kodak.[8] At the end of the 19th century the area became the center of the metallurgical industry of what is now Ukraine.[6] The colony of the Bryansk plant was formed to house factory workers.[6] Other settlements for laborers grew together with it: Chechelivka, Shlyakhovka and Fabryka.[6] Near the factories a railway station – Horiayinove, a secondary school for 600 people and hospital were built.[6] In 1928, the Ilyich Palace of Culture was built, and in 1936 the building of the Industrial Technical School was built.[6]
The current district was created in 1940 out of the city's Kodatskyi and Fabrychno-Chechelivskyi districts.[1] In 2006, the old Cossack town of Taromske,[7] which was located between former Dnipropetrovsk and former Dniprodzerzhynsk (now Kamianske), was merged into the district. Taromske was located on the ancient road from Kyiv to Khortytsia.[7]
Until 26 November 2015 the district was named after Vladimir Lenin (Ukrainian: Ленінський район, Leninskyi District); that day it was renamed to Novokodatskyi District to comply with decommunization laws.[9]
Distribution of the population by native language according to the 2001 census:[10]
Language | Number | Percentage |
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Ukrainian | 85 771 | 53.27% |
Russian | 73 077 | 45.38% |
Other[a] | 2 178 | 1.35% |
Total | 161 026 | 100.00% |
a Those who did not indicate their native language or indicated a language that was native to less than 1% of the local population. |