Dnipro-Holovnyi

Dnipro railway station

Dnipro railway station

Railway station in Dnipro, Ukraine


Dnipro-Holovnyi is the main railway station of Dnipro. Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine.

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History

The station was opened in 1884, called Ekaterinoslav.

July 20, 1926, the Presidium of the USSR Central Executive Committee of the city and station Ekaterinoslav was renamed to Dnipropetrovsk.[2]

During the Holodomor, British journalist Gareth Jones noted that it was filled with starving peasants desperate for food.[3]

During World War II the building was destroyed and in its place under the project of architect Alexey Dushkin in 1951 and built a new station building.

In 1976 a large monumental statue of Grigoriy Petrovsky, after whom the city was renamed in 1926, was erected on the square in front of the railway station.[4][5] This statue was destroyed by an angry mob on 29 January 2016.[4]

On 19 May 2016 the official name of Dnipropetrovsk was changed to Dnipro.[6] Hence the official name of the station was changed to Dnipro-Holovnyi.[7]

Trains

Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine Dnipro city became an important logistic point for refugees and army

As for the April 2023, next routes are set[8]

Passing trains:


References

  1. Железнодорожные станции СССР. Справочник. — М.: Транспорт, 1981
  2. Snyder, Timothy (2010). Bloodlands : Europe between Hitler and Stalin. New York: Basic Books. ISBN 978-0-465-02290-8. OCLC 688506397.
  3. В 1976 г. архитектурно-художественная композиция привокзальной площади была завершена постановкой памятника Г. И. Петровскому
  4. "Dnipropetrovsk renamed Dnipro". UNIAN. Retrieved 19 May 2016. The decision comes into force from the date of its adoption.
    (in Ukrainian) Верховна Рада України (Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine), Поіменне голосування про проект Постанови про перейменування міста Дніпропетровська Дніпропетровської області (№3864) (Roll-call vote on the draft resolution on renaming of Dnipropetrovsk Dnipropetrovsk region №3864), 19 May 2016.

48.4772°N 35.0150°E / 48.4772; 35.0150



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