UKRAINE, Dnepropetrovsk A Modern Global City to Visit
By Markele Smith
When it comes to travel to Ukraine, a tourist destination that you must keep in mind is Dnipropetrovsk, the third largest Ukrainian city, located in the south of Kiev, capital city of the country with a fast growing tourist industry.
However not anyone has heard about Dnepropetrovsk when planning a trip because this city is worldwide known for its state-of-the-art public transportations system, one of the best in the world, but more specifically as a nuclear industrial center of vital importance in tactical space developments of the former Soviet Union.
Dnepropetrovsk lies near the confluence of Dnepr River, flowing across Russia, Belarus, towards Ukraine, and the Samara River, tributary of the Volga, beneficial situation that contributed to its hydroelectric plants, although for long years Dnepropetrovsk was also a predominant industrial city with an economy based on manganese, iron ore, coal, gas, and steel.
Dnipropetrovsk is nowadays a global city with a skyline displaying present and past of the city through its buildings and monuments. Dnipropetrovsk was however a former city of the Russian Empire that later faced the Soviet and Nazi regimes before the Ukrainian War of Independence.
In addition, it is exactly one of its transportation systems; Dnepropetrovsk metro, what contributed to transform this city into the tourist destination it has become today, with a modern airport that counts with many 24-hours amenities besides is heliport, cargo terminal, aircraft stands and passenger terminal with a hotel and duty free shops inside of it.
Picking a taxi from the airport is your best option to get the downtown Dnipropetrovsk, place at which many city tours welcome the traveler. the Metro System was opened in 1995, it has an extension of 7.8 km (4.8 miles) running through 6 stations and it is the third metro system after he Kiev and Kharkiv metro systems.
Dnepropetrovsk attractions keep the transportation theme after a visiting the city’s Central Railway Station, although there are other places of interest such as the Taras Shevchenko Park, and the Museum of Kipchak, housing sculptures and artifacts dated from about 150,000 years ago.
Marshall Malinovsky Street is situated in the left bank of Dnieper River, where visitors can enjoy the old arch that was part of the railway Merefa-Kherson bridge crossing from Dnepropetrovsk to Monastyrsky Island. Nearby are also the house museum of Dmytro Yavornytsky, a Russian historian, archeologist, folklorist, lexicographer, and ethnographer that researched on the Ukrainian Cossacks background.
Dnepropetrovsk Opera house rivals with the large number of theaters attract many visitors each year. There also several museums in the city, but only Russian is speaking during the guided tours, but around the city, English is speaking in squares, parks, beaches, restaurants, hotels and other tourist hospitality services.
Visiting Dnepropetrovsk streets is learning about the heroes of the Marxist Soviet era, because almost all of them were renamed to honor their memory. A visit to the Zhovtneva Square downtown the city will reveal you the sumptuous cathedral dating from 1787, which construction was ordered by Catherine the Great.
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