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  Dnepropetrovsk Oblast Facts & Figures
The oblast's territory, occupying 5.3% of the total area of Ukraine, is represented by a plain relief of the steppe character with the developed river network, high fertile land.
The residents of the oblast are proud of the fact that one of the first democratic republics to appear in Europe and last for centuries was the Zaporizhian Sich.
The oblast's rapid development started since the second half of the 19th century and was explained by equidistant equal distance from the Kryvy Rih iron ore deposits and Donbas coal fields.
www.ukrainebiz.com /Articles/DnepropetrovskFacts.htm   (806 words)

  
  Encyclopedia: Dnipropetrovsk Oblast   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (Івано-Франківська область, Ivano-Frankivs’ka oblast’ or Івано-Франківщина, Ivano-Frankivshchyna in Ukrainian) is an oblast of Ukraine.
Mykolayiv Oblast (Миколаївська область, Mykolaivs’ka oblast’ or Миколаївщина, Mykolaivshchyna in Ukrainian) is an oblast of Ukraine.
Odessa Oblast (Ukrainian: Одеська область, Odes’ka oblast’ or Одещина, Odeshchyna) is an oblast of south-western Ukraine.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Dnipropetrovsk-Oblast   (1056 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Dnipropetrovsk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Dnipropetrovsk is the administrative centre of the Dnipropetrovs'ka oblast'.
Dnipropetrovsk region (Дніпропетровська область, Dnipropetrovs’ka oblast’ in Ukrainian) is a region of northern Ukraine.
Dnipropetrovsk and the surrounding oblas' are the birthplace of the so-called "Dnipropetrovsk Clan", an influential informal political group inside the CPSU, members of whom were the industrial and party elite.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Dnipropetrovsk   (604 words)

  
 Dnipropetrovs’k region, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast | Forum of Local Economic Development
Dnipropetrovs’k region is located in the South-East part of Ukraine, in the basin of middle and low flow of Dnipro River.
Dnipropetrovs’k region is unique in its variety of mineral reserves.It has been discovered 302 deposits and about 950 ore-bearing indications in its depths.
Dnipropetrovs’k region is one of the biggest industrial regions in Ukraine.
www.led.org.ua /eng/agencies/regions/?regid=38   (1536 words)

  
 FARM Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
As of January 1, 2003, the territory of Dnipropetrovsk is 31.9 thousand square kilometers (5.3% of the territory of Ukraine) and is populated by 3,532,800 persons (7.4% of Ukraine’s population).
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast is located in the southeastern part of Ukraine, in the basin of the middle and lower flow of the Dnieper.
In the east it borders on Donetsk, in the south — on Zaporizhzhya and Kherson, in the west — on Mykolayiv and Kirovograd, in the north — on Poltava and Kharkiv oblasts of Ukraine.
www.sasktrade.sk.ca /farm/interactive_map/dnipropetrovsk_oblast.shtml   (433 words)

  
 Official Web site of Sergiy Bychkov, Member of the Parliament of Ukraine - Activity
Headed work on establishing special economic zone and introduction of the special regime of the investment activity in Dnipropetrovsk oblast.
Member of High School Rectors’ Council of Dnipropetrovsk region, Chairman of the Supervisory Council of charitable fund "Dukhovne vidrodzhennia" ("Spiritual revival").
Chairman of the Sailing Federation of Dnipropetrovsk region.
www.bychkov.net /en/action   (341 words)

  
 Statistical information on SDPU(U)’s activity in 2004
The Zakarpattia oblast organization numbering 40540 party members or 9.9% of the overall number of party members, the Kharkiv oblast organization numbering 34121 party members (8.4%) and the Zaporizhzhia oblast organization numbering 30446 party members (7.5%) are the largest in number.
There are 23 national deputies, 5 deputies of the Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, 135 deputies of oblast councils, 495 deputies of city councils, 2361 deputies of rayon councils and 213 deputies of district councils, 1131 deputies of town councils and 6001 deputies of village councils among party members.
3 of them chair oblast councils, 42 – rayon and district councils, 40 party members are mayors of cities of oblast importance or their deputies, 29 party members are mayors of towns of rayon importance, 98 are town mayors, 1086 are village mayors.
www.sdpuo.org.ua /eng/about/facts/stat2004   (652 words)

  
 Ukraine Gateway   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Velyky Tokmak (Zaporizhya oblast) and Nikopol (Dnipropetrovsk oblast) deposits are among the world`s largest deposits of manganese ores.
It occurs in the vicinity of Kharkiv, western Transcarpathia, southeast of Ternopil oblast and in Khmelnytsky oblast.
In the south, the depression`s boundary is at the latitude of Dnipropetrovsk and then turns north and reaches the boundary of the Middle Russian hills (the south-east of the city of Kharkiv).
www.ukraine-gateway.org.ua /gateway/gateway.nsf/webcontent/01010600   (14117 words)

  
 International Religious Freedom Report 2002: Ukraine
The number of foreign religious workers admitted by religious affairs departments of oblast administrations were not available at the end of the period covered by this report.
In Dnipropetrovsk, residents attended the unveiling of a cornerstone commemorating Holocaust victims.
Apartment building construction on a Jewish cemetery in Volodymyr-Volinsky, Volyn oblast, continued despite a court ruling that the building lies within cemetery boundaries and a letter from the Ministry of Culture and Arts asking for a halt in construction until the court case is resolved.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/irf/2002/13988.htm   (5400 words)

  
 JSPPB Aval [ Dnipropetrovsk oblast directorate < Press-centre ]
Dnipropetrovsk OD of Bank Aval is carrying out an action for natural persons from 1 till 30 March
Dnipropetrovsk OD of Aval Bank is participating in the 6th International Motor Show "Limousine-2004" on 4-7 November this year
Dnepropetrovsk oblast directorate of "Aval" bank took part in round-table discussion dedicated to problems of crediting agricultural producers.
www.aval.ua /eng/press/news/dnepr   (587 words)

  
 Lybid'-Kyiv Tourict Agency LTD.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast is a land where the historical and cultural heritage of the Ukrainian Cossacks is carefully preserved, a land, where the Cossack Sich was situated.
Dnipropetrovsk is a city of parks and squares, interesting architectural monuments and picturesque Dnipro embankments.
Travelling about the oblast tourists will pay a visit to one of the Zaporizhian Siches, the grave of Ivan Syrko, the Commander of the Zaporizhian Army, as well as to many other historical places of the oblast connected with the history of the Ukrainian Cossacks.
www.lybid-kiev.com.ua /east_eng.htm   (622 words)

  
 Elections declared invalid in four districts (04/19/98)
Election results were voided by the CEC in districts in the Donetsk and Cherkasy regions and by local courts in the Kherson and Dnipropetrovsk regions on April 13, because violations of election law were deemed to be significant enough to have influenced results.
In addition, a special investigative commission of the CEC is continuing its investigation of the election results of party races in the parliamentary elections in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, the political base of Pavlo Lazarenko, chairman of the oblast regional council and leader of the Hromada Party.
The Odesa Oblast chairman, who is an appointee of President Kuchma, has filed a claim in the Kirovohrad Oblast court as well.
www.ukrweekly.com /Archive/1998/169807.shtml   (803 words)

  
 The Great Famine-Genocide in Soviet Ukraine (Holodomor)
The first official monument of its kind in Dnipropetrovsk oblast, it will be built on the ninth kilometer of the Dnipropetrovsk-Zaporizhzhia highway - on the site where mass burials of people killed on orders from Stalin were discovered in the 1970s during earthworks.
According to the author's concept, the monument commemorating the victims of the Holodomor and political reprisals to be built near a busy motorway should be seen from afar by all those heading for Dnipropetrovsk.
It is worth noting that the director of the group of architects that designed the monument to the victims of the Holodomor and political reprisals, Harnyk Khachatrian, is a native of Armenia, whose people also repeatedly faced mass terror and genocide.
www.artukraine.com /famineart/dnipropetrovsk.htm   (498 words)

  
 NDI - National Democratic Institute for International Affairs
Kharkiv Oblast: Public school teachers were obliged to attend a meeting in support of parliamentary candidate V. Potapov, mayoral candidate B. Sydor and other 'Za Edu' candidates, at which the teachers were urged to work on the candidates' behalf.
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast: During the meeting with entrepreneurs, Y. Zayets, the Deputy Head of the City Executive Committee ordered that no billboard advertising be allowed for any party except 'Za Edu'.
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast: Some teachers at high school #57 were made to sign letters of resignation when their director discovered they were members of 'Spravedlyvist' (Fairness) bloc.
www.ndi.org /worldwide/eurasia/ukraine/cvu_reports/ukraine_cvureport_022802.asp   (2327 words)

  
 JSPPB Aval [ Bank News < Press-centre ]
October 5. — The Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Directorate of Bank Aval has acted as a sponsor of holding Old Aged People Day, the Bank’s Press Center informs with reference to the Marketing and Sales Department of the Dnipropetrovsk OD of the JSPPB Aval.
According to the Directorate, on 1 October this year, in the Gorky Theatre (Dnipropetrovsk) and in all rayon centers of the oblast, Aval Bank greeted its old friends — the Bank’s clients having opened pension accounts and deposits.
Clients-pensioners in Dnipropetrovsk were congratulated by Deputy Director of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Directorate of Aval Bank Maksym Skychko and Director of the theatre, Honoured Employee of Culture of Ukraine, Aval Bank scholarship holder Leonid Fursenko.
www.aval.ua /eng/press/news?id=21722   (197 words)

  
 Dnipropetrovsk --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The climate is continental, with hot summers and cold winters, the latter modified by incursions of warm air from the Black Sea.
These minerals are the basis of large-scale heavy industry in the oblast's four large cities—Dnipropetrovsk city (the oblast headquarters), Kryvyy Rih, Dniprodzerzhynsk, and Nikopol—which engage in iron and steel production and in a wide range of heavy engineering.
Agriculture is also important in the oblast, especially the cultivation of winter wheat, corn (maize), spring barley, sunflowers, fodder crops, and melons.
www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9030733   (658 words)

  
 Cooperation for R&LED of Ukraine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The city and oblast (state) of Dnipropetrovsk are located in southeastern Ukraine.
The city of Dnipropetrovsk has a population of 1.1 million and is located about 250 miles from Kiev, the capital city of Ukraine.
The area is rich in mineral deposits and metallurgical enterprises, has several machine-building factories, and was the center of the space-building industry for the Soviet Union.
www.lightlink.com /cdb-l/msg01032.html   (403 words)

  
 Kyiv Weekly   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
After Yuriy Yekhanurov was appointed head of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast State Administration, it seems that the political situation in the region is generally stable and free of conflicts.
The deputies of the oblast council expect that Kulychenko’s traditional contender Mykola Shvets, the current head of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Council and once the head of the city council, may also run for office as the city’s mayor.
From the moment he was appointed head of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Administration, Yekhanurov has shown himself as a strong leader that continues to resolve regional problems and pretends not to notice their latent presence in certain oblast government bodies.
www.kyivweekly.com /english/article/?963   (958 words)

  
 Ukraine Trip Report:  Market Reforms Continue
Spring precipitation was below normal in western and central Ukraine, and weather was excessively dry in parts of eastern and southern Ukraine.
Late-May and early-June precipitation was beneficial for both winter and spring grains, but the effect of nearly two months of below-normal precipitation is indicated in recent Landsat satellite imagery from Dnipropetrovsk oblast (1, 2, 3) and Odesa oblast (4, 5, 6) and in imagery-derived vegetation indices.
The director of a grain and livestock operation in Kharkiv oblast explained that, after weighing the benefits and disadvantages of custom combining, he decided to fix his outdated combines as best he could and harvest the crop himself.
www.fas.usda.gov /pecad2/highlights/2002/06/ukr_report/index.htm   (1402 words)

  
 cic-3c   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The seminar provided LED background and instruction for approximately 30 city and raion staff and other community leaders from 18 communities in the Dnipropetrovsk oblast who are or will be instrumental in developing economic development strategic plans for their communities.
Among the presenters were the chief of the oblast employment office, the mayor of Cherkasskiy, a regional representative of the NCC, the chief of the Novomoskovsk RJPC, the director of a consulting firm specializing in job placement training, and the executive director of TechnoPark.
The seminars were held in Gvardeskiy in July, in Novomoskovsk in August, in Dnipropetrovsk in September and October, and in Cherkasskiy in November.
www.cic.dp.ua /eng/index.php?id=projects   (2319 words)

  
 Zakarpattia Oblast - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
House of the Council of Zakarpattia Oblast in Uzhhorod with Taras Shevchenko Monument
Zakarpattia Oblast or Transcarpathian Oblast (Ukrainian: Закарпатська область, Zakarpats'ka oblast' or Закарпаття, Zakarpattia, also transliterated Zakarpattya; Hungarian: Kárpátalja) is an oblast (province) of Ukraine.
Other important cities are Mukacheve and Chop (the border town housing various transportation infrastructure).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zakarpattia_Oblast   (218 words)

  
 Dnipropetrovsk. IATP in Ukraine.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The event was arranged and held by IATP Dnepropetrovsk center in cooperation with Dnipropetrovsk Regional Institute of Postgraduate Pedagogical Education.
IATP center in Dnipropetrovsk hosted participants of the chat "Public involvment in Byelorussia and Ukraine in ecological sanation of Dniepr basin", organized by ECA alumni from Byelorussia.
IATP center in Dnipropetrovsk hosted seminar for schoolchildren and their teachers, dedicated to the presentation of Kidlink project.
www.iatp.org.ua /_dp/news2003.html   (985 words)

  
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In July Lubov Budiakova, judge of Babushkinsky District Court in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, complained in the press about harassment by the head of the court after she ruled that the eviction of the Socialist Party from its office in Dnipropetrovsk had been unlawful.
On July 30, Judge Ihor Tkachuk of the Donetsk Oblast Commercial Court was found hanged at his dacha in Odesa Oblast.
In 2000 in Sambir, Lviv Oblast, Jews, with foreign assistance, began construction of a memorial park at the site of an old Jewish cemetery, which was the scene of Nazi atrocities.
www.state.gov /documents/organization/19604.doc   (20845 words)

  
 USAID/Ukraine - Map of Activities > Activities List   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Objectives include enabling a legal framework for the adoption and implementation of International Standards of Audit and the creation of a certified auditor program; converting accounting practices to enterprises to comply with the new standards; supporting curriculum reform; and strengthening partnerships between Ukrainian and U.S. universities in accounting and audit education.
In Dnipropetrovsk oblast, Dnipropetrovsk and Pershotravensk were selected for participation in the project.
In Dnipropetrovsk oblast the project works with Oblast Health Department, AIDS Center, Education Department, Center of Social Services, Department on Youth and Family and various NGOs.
www.usaid.kiev.ua /activities.shtml?reg=15&focus=3   (1585 words)

  
 Regional HIV/AIDS Knowledge Hub - Newswire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Onsite mentoring was organized for 38 participants (infection disease doctors, nurses and social workers) from 14 oblast and city AIDS Centers.
During the onsite mentoring the participants were able to present and analyze the clinical cases of their first ART patients, and to consult with the experienced mentors from the leading Ukrainian HIV/AIDS clinics.
The goal of this training was to increase knowledge of rayon infection disease doctors and nurses on such essential issues as: symptoms of HIV, patient’s counselling, prevention, diagnostic management of the most common diseases in HIV-positive, in order to provide early identification of HIV infection and related care and referral, when needed.
www.aidsknowledgehub.org /resources/newsletters/340   (2986 words)

  
 VT Dnipropetrovs'ka Oblast' Forum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
I have the questions for those of you living in Dnipropetrovsk or Krivoj Rog both expats and local guys.
I will be in Dnipropetrovsk, so my request is quite narrow, maybe.
Hello, I am English and moving to dnipropetrovsk in a few weeks to start work in a new job.
forum.virtualtourist.com /forum-1203-1-Travel-Dnipropetrovska_Oblast-1-forum.html   (832 words)

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