Dnipropetrovsk region (Dnepropetrovsk region) is an oblast in
Ukraine. It is located in the central, eastern and southern parts of the
country.
On February 7, 2019, the Verkhovna Rada began
considering amendments to the Constitution on the name of the region. A
majority of 240 votes recommended the new name of Sicheslavsk. To amend
the Constitution, the decision of two sessions of the Verkhovna Rada is
necessary.
The region was formed on February 27, 1932, when the
Central Executive Committee of the USSR approved the resolution of the
IV session of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of February 9,
1932 on the creation of five regions on the territory of Ukraine.
The area of the region is 31.9 thousand km (with 5.3% of the
territory of Ukraine, this is the second largest region in Ukraine after
Odessa). Population - 3,300,309 people (as of June 1, 2013 - 7.3% of the
population of the state lives here, this is the second most populous
region after Donetsk). The center of the region and the largest city is
Dnipro. Other large cities: Krivoy Rog, Kamenskoe, Nikopol, Pavlograd,
Novomoskovsk.
Dnipro
Krivoy Rog
Nikopol
Novomoskovsk
Pavlograd
Petrykivka painting, or "Petrykivka" - Ukrainian decorative and
ornamental folk painting, formed in the Dnepropetrovsk region in the
village of Petrikovka, from where the name of this art form comes from.
Household items with patterns in the style of Petrykivka painting have
been preserved since the 17th century.
In 2012, the Ministry of
Culture identified Petrykivka painting as an object (element) of the
intangible cultural heritage of Ukraine. On December 5, 2013, the
Petrykivka painting was included in the UNESCO Representative List of
the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
A well-known
painting technique has turned into a brand. At the end of January 2013,
the Petrikovka logo was created. It was handed over to the masters of
the village free of charge so that they could prove to buyers the
authenticity of their products.
The region is located within the Dnieper lowland in the north and the
Dnieper upland in the north-west - in the basin of the middle reaches of
the Dnieper. The Dnieper divides the region into two physical and
geographical provinces: the Dniester-Dnieper north-steppe and the
Left-Bank-Dnieper-Azov north-steppe. By the nature of the relief, the
region is an undulating plain. The north-west is occupied by the Dnieper
Upland, in the extreme south turning into the Black Sea Lowland. The
left-bank part of the region is located in the Dnieper lowland. In the
southeast, the spurs of the Azov Upland enter the region. The surface is
heavily indented by ravines, gullies, and river valleys.
The main
Dnieper river has several tributaries: Orel, Samara with Volchya,
Syrets, Ingulets. The rivers Wet Sura, Kilchen, Orel, Saksagan, Bazavluk
and others flow through the territory of the region. Within the region
there are Kamenskoe, Dneprovskoe and Kakhovskoe reservoirs, the
Dnieper-Krivoy Rog and Dnepr-Donbass channels originate.
For the
most part, the landscape of the region is a plowed steppe, in the
floodplains of rivers and ravines there are forests; the largest is the
Samara forest with an area of about 15,000 hectares.
The
northernmost settlement is the village of Krasnopolye, Novomoskovsky
district. The easternmost is the village of Novopodgorodnoye,
Sinelnikovsky district. And the westernmost and southernmost are four
villages of the Krivoy Rog region: Velikaya Kostromka, Annovka, Rozovka
and Mirnoe.
The climate of the region is temperate continental, with mild winters with little snow and frequent thaws (average January temperature is -5°C) and hot, dry summers with occasional showers and strong southerly winds (average July temperature is +22°C). The duration of the period with temperatures above +10°C is 178 days, and the frost-free period is 187–228 days. Precipitation, the smaller part of which falls during the warm period, falls 400–490 mm per year. The height of the snow cover on average reaches 10-15 cm, and among the adverse climatic phenomena there are thaws, frosts with wind, dry winds and dust storms.
The Dnipropetrovsk region is unique in terms of diversity and mineral
resources. The region has about 50% of the national mineral reserves.
100% manganese and 80% iron ore are mined in the region, coal,
uranium, rare earth metals, kaolin and granite, oil and gas are also
mined.
By the number of explored reserves and annual production
volumes, the Krivoy Rog iron ore basin ranks first in Ukraine. The
world's largest Nikopol basin of manganese ores. 40 types of mineral raw
materials are mined in the region. The Sergeevskoye and Balka Zolotaya
deposits are similar to similar deposits in Canada, Australia and South
Africa.
The region has the only deposit of talc-magnesite in
Ukraine. Significant deposits of stone are concentrated in the bowels of
the region - facing raw materials of rich colors. 15 deposits of mineral
waters have been explored in the region, which makes it possible to
fully meet the needs of the population in medicinal, medicinal table and
table mineral waters.
Favorable natural and climatic conditions
of the region allow for intensive agriculture, contribute to the
cultivation of all grain crops and obtain high-quality food grain. All
types of agricultural crops are grown in the region, and up to 3 million
tons of grain are harvested annually. In addition, the main areas of
crop production are the cultivation of sunflower and sugar beets.
Dnepropetrovsk region is one of the richest in Ukraine in terms of
diversity and importance of natural resources. The largest areas are
occupied by chernozem soils. They were formed on ancient river terraces,
on watersheds, mainly on sandy-argillaceous parent rocks under the
influence of meadow and steppe vegetation.
Podzolized and leached
chernozems are widespread in the Right Bank and in the northernmost part
of the Left Bank, where the influence of the forest is felt. To the
south - typical fat and ordinary chernozems. In the central regions of
the Left Bank - mostly ordinary chernozems. Gray forest soils are common
in the northern regions. Dark chestnut soils in the region are located
south of the Orel and Samara rivers. In river openings, conditions are
created for the formation of alluvial soils under the influence of
grassy meadow vegetation and with a peculiar humid microclimate. The
largest object of the natural reserve fund is the Dnieper-Orelsky nature
reserve.
One of the popular forests of the Dnepropetrovsk region is the Samara
forest. Forest in Novomoskovsky and Pavlogradsky districts of the
Dnepropetrovsk region of Ukraine, mainly on the left bank of the Samara
River. The length of the Samara forest of the Dnepropetrovsk region is
about 30 km, the width is up to 6 km, the total area is about 15
thousand hectares. Location: Dnepropetrovsk region, Novomoskovsky and
Pavlogradsky districts. There is a magical and amazing island of wild
nature in the Dnepropetrovsk region - the Samara forest. Hundreds of old
trees have survived to our time, some of them over 300 years old. The
Samara forest of the Dnepropetrovsk region is a large area of the old
floodplain and arena forest, there are: oaks, ash trees, lindens,
maples, pines, alders.
Typical northern plants also grow on the
territory of the Samara forest: marsh orchis, two-leaved lyubka. Samara
has a huge number of forests that amaze with their diversity: ash
forests, linden forests, oak forests, pine forests, birch groves, aspen
groves, alder bogs, aspen forests, willow forests.
Near the
Samara forest of the Dnepropetrovsk region there are two solonchak
estuaries - Salt Liman and Bulakhovsky Liman, as well as numerous saline
water meadows and swamps.
On the territory of the forest there
are a large number of: flooded lakes, oxbow lakes, reed bogs, sphagnum
bogs. A large number of herbs and flowers grow in the meadows of the
Samara Forest:
Violet tricolor (popular name - pansies), one of
the most common plants in meadows and glades in the Samara forest.
Blooms from April to autumn.
Mytnik is a poisonous plant that blooms
from May to June. A decoction of mytnik was used as a remedy for
dandruff and parasites in folk medicine and veterinary medicine.
Chickweed is a plant from the clove family. Blooms from June to
September. According to the behavior of the plants, the weather was
predicted: “if after sunrise the flower does not open and rise, it will
rain during the day.” Used in folk medicine.
The forest tulip is a
rare species, the birthplace of the forest tulip is the broad-leaved
forests of southern Italy and the Balkan Peninsula.
The fauna of the
Samara forest is as diverse as the flora. The forest is home to 102
species of nesting birds. A number of bird species living in the forest
are listed in the Red Book of Ukraine: Imperial Eagle, White-tailed
Eagle, Short-toed Eagle.
Meadows and swamps serve as a haven for
a large number of birds: jays, pikas, nuthatches, four types of
woodpeckers, three types of flycatchers, finches, goldfinches, warblers,
warblers, owls, hawks, snipes, waders, geese, cranes, swans, herons.
About 30 species of mammals inhabit the Samara forest of the
Dnepropetrovsk region: badgers, pine martens, ermines, weasels, bats,
wild boars, bison and others.
prehistoric period
Most likely, Neanderthal hunters appeared here
in the last interglacial period - about 100,000 years ago, after the
retreat of the ice to the north. Fragments of skullcaps, flint flakes,
tools of the late Mousterian type were found near Dnepropetrovsk. In
1957, during the construction of the Dneprodzerzhinsk hydroelectric
power station at the Paleolithic site of Romankovo, S.K. Nakelsky found
a human femur, synchronous with the fossil fauna and Late Mousterian
tools.
The first traces of Homo sapiens in the region date back
to the Paleolithic.
In the Mesolithic burial ground Vasilyevka
III (these are the Dnieper rapids), a skull was found with traces of
trepanation, carried out according to radiocarbon analysis - 9300-8220
years ago. At the settlement of Igren 8 on the Igrensky Peninsula,
individual dwellings dated to the last quarter of the 8th-6th millennium
BC were investigated.
In the V-IV millennium BC. e. the territory
of the region was occupied by the settlements of hunters and fishermen
of the Dnieper-Donets culture, in the south bordering on the area of the
Proto-Aryan (according to Maria Gimbutas) Sredne-Stog culture of the
Azov region.
After IV millennium BC. e. In the steppe zone of
Ukraine, the tribes of the Yamnaya culture spread, from where they
continued their spread to the west of the continent. For the next 4.5
thousand years, the territory of the region was home to nomadic steppe
tribes, waves rolling in from the depths of Asia.
The Chaplinsky
burial ground dates back to the 4th-2nd millennium BC.
The first historical people on the territory of the region are the
Cimmerians (log culture), who inhabited the Black Sea steppes in the
13th-8th centuries BC, after which they were expelled to Asia Minor by
the Scythians who came from the east and the Kuban.
The Scythians
formed an early class state in the Black Sea steppes with a center in
the area of modern. Kamenka-Dneprovskaya (opposite Nikopol); royal
burials in mounds in this region are known (Chertomlyk, Tolstaya Mogila,
etc.). Apparently, at that time, agriculture along the rivers was
developing in the region.
In 513 BC. e. the troops of the Persian
king Darius I passed through these lands, unsuccessfully pursuing the
Scythian detachments.
In the III century. BC e. the Scythians
from the steppes were driven back to the Crimea by the Iranian tribes of
the Sarmatians who came from the east. The Sarmatian tribes were related
to the Scythians. They occupied the steppes from the Danube to the
Tobol. It is believed that it was from the Sarmatians that we inherited
the names of the rivers Don, Dniester, Dnieper (“throwing water”), etc.
In the III century (about 230), the Sarmatian tribes were subjugated
by the Germans who came from the north-west (Goths, Chernyakhov
culture). According to some researchers, the capital of the Gothic
Empire was located above the 1st Dnieper threshold, that is, on the
territory of the modern Dnepropetrovsk region below the regional center.
According to chroniclers, under the influence of Byzantine culture, the
Goths began to accept Christianity from the 4th century.
Soon a
new nomadic union of tribes, the Huns, appeared on the borders of
Europe. In 375, the Huns in the steppes of Ukraine defeated the Gothic
leader Germanaric and thousands of Goths poured across the Danube into
the Roman Empire. Only a small part of the ready managed to gain a
foothold in the mountainous regions of Crimea. Soon after the defeat of
Attila in the Catalaunian fields in Gaul in 451 and his death, the
tribal union of the Huns broke up.
Slavic tribes of the Penkovsky
culture (V-VII centuries) began to penetrate into the territory of the
region from the north-west.
In the middle of the 6th century, militant Avars appeared in the
Northern Black Sea region, with the permission of the Byzantine emperor,
they first occupied Dobruja, and then started a series of wars and raids
throughout Eastern and Central Europe. During the heyday of the Avar
Khaganate, his possessions stretched from the Don to the Alps.
In
632, in the Azov region, the leader of the Turkic Bulgar tribes Kubrat
declared independence from the Avars and became the head of the
association, which received the name Great Bulgaria in Byzantine
sources.
However, after the death of Khan Kubrat around 665, his
state was divided among his sons, and the Bulgar tribes split up and
settled on the Danube, the Volga, and the North Caucasus. The lands of
Sarmatia fell under the control of the Khazar Khaganate, which was
gaining power. The Khazars directly owned the lands on the Lower Volga,
the Don and the North Caucasus, but the tribes that paid tribute to them
lived throughout the Middle Volga and along the Dnieper, at least as far
as Kiev.
By the 9th century, the Dnieper River became a transport
artery connecting the developing Baltic region and the lands of
Scandinavia with the world of civilizations of Byzantium and the Middle
East. This is the so-called path "from the Varangians to the Greeks."
Following the merchants came the Scandinavian warriors - the Vikings. In
862, the Varangians had already fortified in the north of the Slavic
lands - in Novgorod (Varangian Calling, Rurik), and in 882 the commander
of the deceased Rurik, King Oleg, marched with his retinue from
Novgorod, subjugating the cities lying on the way (Smolensk, Lyubech),
and captured Kiev , where before that "the Scandinavians Askold and Dir
reigned (according to the chronicle)." Then Oleg the Prophet obliged the
neighboring Slavic tribes to pay tribute not to the Khazars, but to him.
Kyiv became the capital of the newly formed state, and along the Dnieper
to the south, to the Crimea and Constantinople, not only merchants, but
also Scandinavian-Slavic squads began to swim.
At the same time,
Pecheneg nomads moved from the Trans-Volga region to the Lower Dnieper,
pressed by the Khazars and Oghuz.
In 964-965, the grandson of
Rurik, the prince of Kiev - the commander Svyatoslav Igorevich (ruled:
from 942 to March 972) went down the Oka and Volga with an army and
defeated the Khazar Khaganate. After that, the Pechenegs become full
owners of the Black Sea steppes. The Dnieper region becomes the scene of
Pecheneg raids and wars. It was here, in the area of the village of
Nikolskoye-on-Dnieper, that Prince Svyatoslav, who was returning to Kiev
from a campaign against the Balkan possessions of Byzantium, was
treacherously killed by the bribed Pechenegs in March 972.
Gradually, relations between Russia and the Pechenegs deteriorate and,
under the pressure of Rus' (the defeat near Kiev in 1036) and the
Torques, who migrated from the east, the Pechenegs are forced out to the
Lower Danube.
However, already in 1055, new nomads, the Polovtsy,
appeared in the deserted steppes on the southeastern borders of the Kyiv
principality. In 1068, their first raid on the Russian lands was
recorded, after which their raids become regular, the Polovtsians
actively take part in the civil strife of the Russian princes, including
at the invitation of one or another prince.
In the XI-XIII
centuries, the steppes of the Black Sea region were called the
Polovtsian land as the western part of Desht-i-Kipchak.
In May
1223, a few inhabitants of the Dnieper steppes could observe how Russian
combatants landed from ships on the shore in front of the Dnieper rapids
and followed to the east. On May 31, 1223, the Polovtsian khans and
Russian princes were defeated by the advanced detachments of the Mongols
of Genghis Khan, led by Subedei and Jebe, 250 km to the east - on the
Kalka River.
In 1240-41, the Mongols will return to these steppes
at the head of the hordes of Central Asian tribes. The northeastern and
southern Russian principalities will be defeated by Batu Khan, the
grandson of Genghis Khan, and will become dependent on the newly created
steppe state of the Golden Horde. The Polovtsians will be dispersed
among neighboring peoples and conquerors.
In the Middle Ages, the
territory of the region was originally part of the territory of the
Golden Horde (the Ulus of Kuremsy was formed on the Right Bank, the Ulus
of Mautsy was formed on the Left Bank of the Dnieper), after the decline
of which it belonged to the so-called Wild Field, the population of the
region was made up of small nomadic tribes of the Nogais, who were under
the control of the formed in 1427 of the Crimean Khanate.
In the XIV century, the Lithuanian princes gradually united all
Western Russian lands into a single state - the Grand Duchy of
Lithuania. Its boundary in the southeast is the river. Samara. Prince
Vitovt managed to force out the steppes from the bend of the Dnieper.
Although the territory of the region turned out to be on the outskirts,
it nevertheless did not fall under the control of nomads as part of
European civilization, although due to its proximity to the Crimea it
constantly suffered from Tatar raids. In the XV-XVII centuries, the
north of the region began to be populated by people from the interior
Russian regions of the Commonwealth. In the southern part, on the border
with the Crimean Khanate of the Dnieper, the base of the Zaporizhzhya
(Lower) Cossack army (Zaporizhzhya Sich) is formed. The Cossacks were a
barrier on the way of the Crimean Tatar detachments deep into the
Commonwealth.
In 1635, at the confluence of Samara with the
Dnieper, the Polish authorities built the Kodak fortress (on the
outskirts of the modern city of Dnepr) to control the Cossacks, which
became (together with the town that formed under it) the administrative
center of the district (Kodatskaya palanka).
At the beginning of
1648, Bogdan Khmelnitsky arrived at the Sich (in the area of
\u200b\u200bthe modern city of Nikopol) and raised the grassroots
Cossacks for an armed struggle against the Commonwealth. Near the modern
city of Zhovti Vody in the west of the region, in the spring of 1648,
the Zaporizhzhya army won the first victory over the Polish troops and
moved further west. By the end of the 18th century, the lands of the
Zaporizhian army were under the joint control of Moscow and the
Commonwealth.
As a result of the Russian-Turkish peace treaty in 1774, the lands in
the lower reaches of the Dnieper became part of the Russian Empire.
After the liquidation of the Zaporozhian Sich by Catherine II, these
Cossack lands were transferred to the Azov and Novorossiysk provinces
(in the territory of the modern south of Ukraine), not far from the
mouth of Samara, a new provincial city of Yekaterinoslav was founded
(1776). Since that moment, the process of settling these places by
settled residents has intensified. In addition to Russians and
Ukrainians, among the new settlers were German colonists invited by
Catherine II for the agricultural development of the annexed steppes of
the former Wild Field. The territory of the region was included in the
so-called. "Pale of Settlement", so a significant number of Jews settled
in the cities, moving here from the western provinces. So, by the
beginning of the 20th century, Jews accounted for about 1/3 of the
population of Yekaterinoslav.
In 1783, the Yekaterinoslav
governorship was formed, on the territory of which parts of four regions
are now located, including the Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine. The
provincial city was re-founded in a new place, on a hill above the
Dnieper, near the Cossack village of Polovitsa, and later absorbed it
and other Cossack villages in the district. The plans of Catherine II,
actively supported by her favorite, Governor G. A. Potemkin, included
turning the city into "Southern Palmyra", the third capital of the
Russian Empire. However, the death of the empress and the lack of funds
in the treasury did not allow these plans to come true. However, the
provincial center was founded and gradually developed. True,
Yekaterinoslav remained a provincial town for almost 100 years, it was
even identified in 1820 as a place for the exile of the disgraced A. S.
Pushkin.
At the end of the 19th century, deposits of iron ore (in
the Krivoy Rog tract), coal, and other minerals were discovered on the
territory of the region. After that, the rapid industrial development of
the region began, which became one of the most important in the Russian
Empire. The current heavy industry base was laid at the end of the 19th
century.
The proletariat of Yekaterinoslav took an active part in
revolutionary movements from the beginning of the 20th century; many
prominent figures of the CPSU (b) were associated with these regions and
later Dnepropetrovsk region was called the "forge of personnel": L. I.
Brezhnev, V. V. Shcherbitsky and a number of members of the Politburo
and the Central Committee of the CPSU came from here.
During the Civil War, the territory of the region became the scene of
stubborn battles. Among the peasant population, the ideas of anarchism
gained great popularity. From 1917 to 1920, the center of the Insurgent
Army of the Makhnovists was located in the village of Gulyaipole (now
Zaporozhye region).
On February 9, 1932, as a result of the
administrative-territorial reform, the Dnepropetrovsk region was formed
- one of the first five regions of the republic.
Its territory
differed significantly from the modern Dnipropetrovsk region and
included the territory of modern Zaporozhye region, the northern part of
the Kherson region and the eastern part of the Donetsk region.
On
July 2, 1932, by a decree of the All-Russian Central Executive
Committee, the Donetsk region was separated from the Dnepropetrovsk and
Kharkov regions with the center in the city of Artemovsk. Already on
July 16, 1932, the city of Stalino became the center of the region.
On January 10, 1939, the Zaporozhye region was separated from the
Dnepropetrovsk region, the territory of the region was fixed within the
modern borders.
The gross output of large-scale industry in 1940
in constant prices amounted to 2,432 million rubles.
During the
Great Patriotic War, the territory of the region was the scene of a
fierce confrontation between the Soviet and German armies. The
Dnepropetrovsk region, due to its strategic position, occupied a special
place in Hitler's geopolitical program (see East Wall). The zone became
the site of fierce battles, such as the battle for the Dnieper.
In the 1950s-1980s, the Dnipropetrovsk region turned into one of the
most economically and politically influential regions of the Ukrainian
SSR and the entire Soviet Union. The region occupied a leading position
in the development of urbanization, the share of the urban population,
the construction of heavy and light industries. The main place in the
economy was occupied by metallurgical enterprises and
military-industrial complex enterprises.
In the 1960s-1980s,
people from the Dnepropetrovsk region and neighboring regions of the
Ukrainian SSR traditionally occupied leading positions in the political
elite of the USSR. A political phenomenon of the late Soviet era, the
so-called "Dnepropetrovsk clan", was formed. The role of the
“Dnepropetrovsk” political structures remained traditionally strong in
the first period of independent Ukraine throughout the 1990s and early
2000s and was significantly limited only after the events of 2004.
The Dnipropetrovsk region is unique among other regions of Ukraine in terms of the diversity of mineral deposits. 302 deposits and about 950 ore occurrences have been explored in its bowels. 39 types of mineral raw materials are mined in the region. The Krivoy Rog basin with explored iron ore reserves of more than 15 billion tons and a production volume of 87 million occupies the first place in Ukraine. The region claims to be the economic locomotive of Ukraine. Available reserves make it possible to provide ferrous metallurgy with raw materials for a long time in the third millennium.
The region has a strong industrial potential. It is characterized by
a high level of development of heavy industry. 587 industrial
enterprises of 15 industries are concentrated in the region, employing
451.7 thousand people. 15.6% of all industrial products of Ukraine are
produced in Dnepropetrovsk region. According to this indicator, the
region ranks second in Ukraine.
In the bowels of the region,
significant deposits of stones of facing raw materials of rich colors
are concentrated. In this direction, we can expect a significant
increase in production. 15 deposits of mineral waters have been explored
in the region, which make it possible to fully meet the needs of the
population in medicinal, medicinal table and table mineral waters.
The region has the only deposit of talc-magnesite in Ukraine. Its
commissioning makes it possible to meet the needs of Ukraine in
refractory raw materials by 60-70% and significantly reduce its imports
from other countries. The Prosyanovsk deposit of primary kaolins is
considered the best in the world in terms of reserves and quality of raw
materials.
The basis of the region's industry is the mining and
metallurgical complex, which includes 57 enterprises. Among them: — 24
mining enterprises; — 23 enterprises of ferrous metallurgy (including 2
mining and metallurgical plants, 3 metallurgical plants, 4 pipe plants,
3 coke-chemical plants and 1 ferroalloy plant). 209.5 thousand people
work at the enterprises of the industry. The industry's products account
for 39.5% of the volume of ferrous metallurgy production in Ukraine.
In the region, 100% of commercial manganese ore, 82.4% of iron ore
are mined, 72.3% of pipes, 36.2% of rolled metal, 33.6% of cast iron,
32.1% of steel, 28% of coke from the total volume in Ukraine are
produced. Most of the products are certified and meet the world quality
standards. In metallurgy, a steel production technology has been
introduced that makes it possible to obtain steel with a sulfur and
phosphorus content of not more than 0.025%, to carry out additional
alloying with molybdenum, vanadium, and titanium. This makes it possible
to produce rolled products that meet the requirements of DIN, EN, ASTM,
API and other standards in terms of chemical composition and mechanical
properties.
Pipe production of the region makes it possible to
manufacture pipes of more than 140 thousand standard sizes from 400
steel grades by various methods of hot and cold deformation, centrifugal
casting, and welding. The production technology of a wide range of steel
pipes with enamel coating, as well as pipes made of brass, aluminum,
titanium, and zirconium, has been mastered. Solid-rolled railway wheels,
tires, ring products are manufactured, which are exported to more than
35 countries of the world.
The region has significant reserves of
black and brown coal and has every opportunity for the successful
development of the coal industry. The balance reserves of coal
concentrated in the region are more than 21 billion tons. Currently (as
of 2016), about 18 million tons of coal are mined annually, which is
almost 25% of the total production of gas and coking coal in Ukraine.
The activity of the mining towns of the Dnepropetrovsk region—Pavlograd,
Pershotravensk, and Ternovka—is closely connected with the work of 10
coal-mining enterprises. About 30 thousand workers work at the
enterprises of the industry.
The Nikopol manganese deposit, on
the basis of which two mining and processing plants operate, will
operate in 2025-2026. The future of the region is in the development of
non-ferrous, gold mining and gold processing industries. Potential
resources of gold, molybdenum, tungsten within the Sursk, Chertomlyk,
Verkhovtsev structures, as well as Krivbass impressively indicate that
after the completion of exploration work, the region will have several
large gold deposits (Sergievskoye and others) and medium-sized deposits
of molybdenum and tungsten . Also, a large number of deposits of
non-metallic minerals have been explored within the region. In terms of
its resource potential, the region ranks first in Ukraine.
Dnipropetrovsk region - ranks second in Ukraine in terms of electricity
production. The main part in the structure of power generating
capacities is Pridneprovskaya and Krivoy Rog thermal power plants with a
total capacity of 4.7 thousand MW and Sredneprovskaya hydroelectric
power plant with a capacity of 0.35 thousand MW. The region generates
8.9% of the total electricity produced in Ukraine. 14.1 thousand people
work in the electric power industry. The Nikopol solar power plant (SPP)
with a capacity of 246 MW was built in the Nikopol district.
Telecommunication infrastructures are successfully developing in the
region. Backbone and satellite telecommunications channels have been
created, which ensures the provision of high-quality communication
services to all consumers in the region. In 2011, courier services and
computer communications were popular among the population (an increase
in income compared to 2010 by 45.7% and 4.6%, respectively).
The
region is provided with mobile communication in GSM, NMT, 3G, LTE
standards, D-AMPS standard cellular communication, radiotelephone
communication. There are networks of Ukrainian mobile communications: JV
GTU Ukrainian Mobile Communications (UMC) (since 2007, the Ukrainian
subsidiary of the Russian mobile operator MTS), Dnepropetrovsk branch of
CJSC Kyivstar J.S. Em”, JV Digital Cellular Communications (DCC) LLC
(since 2005 Astelit LLC, which provides mobile communication services in
the life:) network (life), Ukrainian Radio Systems LLC (WellCOM, Mobi
and Privat:Mobile until 2006, from 2006 to 2011 Beeline), which in 2011
became part of the Kyivstar company, the Dnipropetrovsk branch of Utel
(Utel) of PJSC Ukrtelecom, OJSC Telesystems of Ukraine (PeopleNet,
Newton), the Internet is rapidly developing. The number of network
subscribers increased by 8.8% and amounts to 247.3 thousand people.
The introduction of information technologies and modern postal
equipment makes it possible to organize the provision of electronic and
hybrid mail services, banking operations, various types of settlements
and the provision of information services.