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Ekaterinoslav

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Dnipropetrovsk

 formerly (1783–1926) Ekaterinoslav

City (pop., 2001: 3,567,600), south-central Ukraine. Located on the Dnieper River, it was founded in 1783 and named for Catherine the Great; it grew after the railroad arrived in the 1880s. In 1926 the Soviets gave it its current name. A railway junction and a centre of the wheat trade, it has developed into one of the largest industrial cities of Ukraine, with a huge iron and steel industry. It is the site of institutes of higher education, and its cultural amenities include several theatres.


Ekaterinoslav 

the former name of Dnepropetrovsk (until 1926), the administrative center of Dnepropetrovsk Ob-last, Ukrainian SSR.



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By 1923, the firm operated 1,046 commercial outlets throughout the Ukraine, most of them in Khar'kov, Odessa, and Ekaterinoslav provinces.
The focal point of Charters Wynn's study of the working class in the Ukraine's iron and coal belt is October 1905: in that month workers in Ekaterinoslav and elsewhere in the region mounted an impressive general strike that as part of the national strike wrested the October Manifesto from Nicholas II; a few days later many of those same workers took part in devastating pogroms in Ekaterinoslav and other cities.
 
 
 
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