14 Facts About Dnipro

The area of modern Dnipro was part of the Scythian empire from approximately the 1th century BC until the 3rd century BC.

Subsequently the era of modern Dnipro city was incorporated into the Mongol's khanate Golden Horde.

Subsequent archeological finds in today's Dnipro's urban district Samarskyi District suggest that the important river crossing was a trading settlement from at least 1524.

Dnipro is reported as the only city in Ukraine where a volunteer formation has been created under direct City Council control.

Aviatorske, an urban-type settlement located near the Dnipro International Airport, is a part of Dnipro Municipality.

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Dnipro posted bounties for the capture of Russian-backed militants and the surrender of weapons; drafted housands of Privat Group employees as auxiliary police officers; and is said to have provided substantial funds to create the Dnipro Battalion, and to support the Aidar, Azov, and Donbas volunteer battalions.

However, according to other schemes, Dnipro has a Supratemperate bioclimate, and belongs to the Temperate xeric steppic thermoclimatic belt, due to high evapotranspiration.

Dnipro is a primarily industrial city of around one million people; in being such it has developed into a large urban centre over the past few centuries to become, today, Ukraine's fourth-largest city after Kyiv, Kharkiv and Odesa.

The natural population growth in Dnipro is slightly higher than growth in Ukraine in general.

In 2018 a private Texas-based aerospace firm Firefly Aerospace opened a Research and Development center in Dnipro to develop small and medium-sized launch vehicles for commercial launches to orbit.

Dnipro has a metro system, opened in 1995, which consists of one line and 6 stations.

Dnipro has a variety of theatres and museums, including the Dmytro Yavornytsky National Historical Museum.

The Dnipro-Arena hosted the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification game between Ukraine and England on 10 October 2009.

The Dnipro Arena was initially chosen as one of the Ukrainian venues for their joint Euro 2012 bid with Poland.