Samarskyi District

Samarskyi District Самарський район
Urban district
Coordinates: 48°25′01″N 35°07′04″E
Country	Ukraine
City	Dnipro
Established	6 April 1977[1]
Area [2]
• Total	66.83 km^2 (25.80 sq mi)
Population  (2001 census)
• Total	78,997
• Density	1,200/km^2 (3,100/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Area code	+380 562
KOATUU	1210138400[3]

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Samarskyi District (Ukrainian: Самарський район) is an urban district of the city of Dnipro, in southern Ukraine.[4] It is located at the confluence of the Dnieper and Samara rivers in the eastern and southeastern parts of the city.

History

The district was created on 6 April 1977[5] out of the neighborhood of Samar previously in the Industrialnyi District and the newly added cities of Prydniprovsk (1956–1977) and Ihren (1959–1977) as well as a historic Cossack settlement of Chapli.[1][5] Archeologic founds suggest that Samar existed in 1524.[6] Archaeologists of the Dnipro National University have discovered artifacts there dated around 1520s.[7]

The town of Prydniprovsk was created around the Prydniprovsk State District Power Station (DRES), today a thermal power station that was built in 1954, while the town of Ihren was created around the Ihren Rail Station, which still exists since 1873.[5] They were both absorbed into the boundaries of the Samarskyi District.[5]

Samarskyi District did not escape the Russian aerial attacks on Dnipro (of the Russian invasion of Ukraine); a Russian strike on the night of 26 to 27 January damaged three high-rise residential buildings and industrial buildings in the district.[8]

Population

Language

Distribution of the population by native language according to the 2001 census:[9]

Language	Number	Percentage
Ukrainian	40 852	51.71%
Russian	37 543	47.53%
Other^[a]	602	0.76%
Total	78 997	100.00%

^a Those who did not indicate their native language or indicated a language that was native to less than 1% of the local population.

Neighborhoods

• Chapli
• Ihren
• Kseniivka
• Nyzhniodniprovsk-Vuzol
• Odynkivka
• Pivnichnyi
• Prydniprovsk
• Samar, Dnipro
• Shevchenko
• Stara Ihren

Gallery

• 
  Prydniprovsk Power Plant
• 
  Church
• 
  South bridge

References

1. "Samarskyi Raion". Official Internet-portal (in Ukrainian). Dnipro City Council. Archived from the original on 8 February 2012. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
2. "Samarskyi Raion". gorod.dp.ua/ (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 4 February 2015.
3. "Samarskyi District Council". Informational portal of the self-government in Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Rada.info. Retrieved 5 February 2015.
4. "Samarskyi Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, City of Dnipropetrovsk". Regions of Ukraine and their Structure (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
5. "Historical Background of Samarskyi District" (in Ukrainian). Dnipro city council. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
6. (in Ukrainian) Dnipro: pages of the city's history. The first page is Cossack, dnipro.libr.dp.ua (21 September 2017)
7. (in Ukrainian) Iryna Reva, Oleh Rypan. The Old Samar (Cтара Cамар). The Ukrainian Week. 18 July 2011
8. Iryna Balachuk (27 January 202). "Russian attack on Dnipro and oblast damages infrastructure and multi-storey buildings – photos". Ukrainska Pravda. Retrieved 27 January 2025.
9. "Рідні мови в об'єднаних територіальних громадах України" (in Ukrainian).

External links

• Samarskyi District at the Dnipro City Council website (in Ukrainian)