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Dnipro
City and administrative center of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine

Dnipro

Dnipro is Ukraine's fourth-largest city, with about one million inhabitants.

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It is located in the eastern part of Ukraine, 391 km (243 mi) southeast of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on the Dnipro River, from which it takes its name. Dnipro is the administrative centre of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. It hosts the administration of Dnipro urban hromada. Dnipro has a population of 968,502.

Get in

Getting to Dnipro

Due to the Russia-Ukraine war, Ukraine's airspace is closed to aviation.

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    Dnipro Main Station

    Trains from Kyiv (IC+), Lviv, Odesa, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia (IC+) and other cities operate.

See

Worth seeing

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    Prospekt Dmytra Yavornytskoho
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    Historical Museum

    Prospekt Dmytra Yavornytskoho (East end on the top of the hill).

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    Preobrazhensky Cathedral

    Catherine the Great, Austrian Emperor Joseph II, and prince Grigory Potemkin put its first stone on May 9, 1787.

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    Holy Trinity Cathedral
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    Shrine of St

    Catherine Lutheran Church (Німецька Євангелічно-лютеранська церква Святої Катерини), Prospekt Dmytra Yavornytskoho 103 (Center).

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    Golden Rose Choral Synagogue
Do

Things to do

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    Botanical
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    Shevchenko
Eat

Where to eat

Borscht, cutlet po Kyiv, and cutlet po domashnyomu, olivier (mayonnaise salad) and plove for a good rice dish. For a quick meal get a schwarma, there is a great place in the city center. Amphora Cafe, Prospekt Dmytra Yavornytskoho and Furmanova (Near the Monument of Glory). Greek cuisine. Italian Quarter, Kharkivska 3 (A block east of European Square). Italian cuisine. Good pizza.

How locals move

Getting around Dnipro the local way

  • Get inThere are reports about ferries that go down the Dnieper from Kyiv.

From Wikivoyage: Dnipro, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-08.

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