21 May 2016

Radio Free Europe: Ukraine Renames Third-Largest City

The Ukrainian parliament has voted to change the name of the country's third-largest city from Dnipropetrovsk to Dnipro. [...]

The city was originally known as Katerynoslav. It was named as Dnipropetrovsk in 1926 after the Dnipro River and Ukraine's Soviet Communist Party leader Hryhoriy Petrovskiy.

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