DNIPROPETROVSK with pics and movie
Speaking about my native city Dnipropetrovsk, the place where I was born, I'd like to mention the proverb "East or West — home is best". And it is true. Wherever you live, work, travel, in mind you always return to the place where you spent your childhood because your native city seems to be the dearest and the best place in the whole world.
In one of its curves the Dnipro cradles the beautiful city of Dnipropetrovsk. The city spreads over both banks of the river, in the South-Eastern part of Ukraine.
The city was founded in 1776, in the reign of Empress Kateryna II, and named Katerynoslav in her honour.
In May, 1787, while touring Southern Russia, Kateryna II laid the first foundation stone of the Transfiguration Cathedral.
Built much later, the Cathedral was one-sixth of the originally planned size. Today this ancient structure is one of our city's most magnificent monuments of architecture.
At first Katerynoslav was a small provincial town on the right bank of the Dnipro. After the completion, in 1884, of the Kateryninska Railway, which linked the city with the Donetsk coal basin and the Krivyj-Rig iron ore basin, the out-of-the-way provincial town on the Dnipro turned into the centre of Southern Russia's ferrous metallurgy.
The hill crowned by the Transfiguration Cathedral is believed to be the "starting point" of the city. On the top of the hill there is Oktyabrskaya Slava (Eternal Glory) Square. The Square is dominated by a tank standing on a pedestal — the monument to Ye. G. Pushkin, a World War II hero, who gave his life for the liberation of the Dnipropetrovsk area from the fascists.
On the slope of the hill there is the city's oldest park now named after Taras Shevchenko.
At the end of the 18th century Lazar Hloba, a Zaporozhyan Cossack, planted a large orchard in that place. Prince Potyomkin took a fancy for that orchard and bought it: he had decided to build a palace there. The Potyomkin Palace is now the oldest building in Dnipropetrovsk. It was erected in 1790 to the design by I. Starov, a prominent Russian architect. Today the Palace houses a student club.
Komsomolsky Island, a place of great historical interest, occupies a half of the Taras Shevchenko Park grounds. Greek monks built a monastery there in the 9th century. During their marches on Byzantium, princes' regiments used to halt here. In 957 Princess Olga of Kyiv found refuge from a storm within the walls of the monastery and then resumed her journey to Tsargorod (Constantynopol). In 988 the barks which carried Prince Volodymyr's troops to Korsun' pulled to the island. In 1240 the monastery was reduced to ruins by the hordes of Khan Baty.
Today Komsomolsky Island is a popular recreation place.
It communicates with the "mainland" part of the park by the pedestrian bridge and funicular.
The exposition aquarium of fresh-water fauna found in the Dnipro is also an attraction for the visitors. This is the largest in Europe fresh-water aquarium.
Today Dnipropetrovsk has a population of over a million, and an area of 400 sq. km. The city is rich in museums and exhibition halls, it boasts of five theatres, the Circus, the Organ Music House in the ancient Bryanska Church, and of Sports Complex comprising the Aquatic and Ice Palaces and a stadium.
The embankment of Dnepropetrovsk is officially recognized as the longest (extent more than 20 km) in Europe. It is located in the downtown and the place of residents of Dnepropetrovsk is favourite for: walks, rest, romantic appointments and acquaintances.
A short distance away from the Transfiguration Cathedral there is the Historical Museum, which occupies a one-storey house built in 1905. The museum bears the name of D. I. Yavornytsky, the outstanding archaeologist, who was its director for 30 years. The Dnipropetrovsk Historical Museum is one of the Ukraine's oldest. The museum was founded in 1849, it has on display rare collection of utensils concerned the Dnipropetrovsk area (over 177 000 exhibits). One of the museum's expositions is dedicated to arts and crafts of the Dnipropetrovsk Region.
The Katerynoslav Province has long been famous for its painters who specialize in the ornamentation of walls, furniture and wooden household utensils. This form of decorative applied art emerged centuries ago at Petrikovka, a nearby village. It is distinguished by floral ornamental motives, clear-cut and graceful tracery, and vividness of colour.
Body-art festival in Petrikovka
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