HISTORICAL INSIGHTS

Development of capitalism (end of XIX cent. - 1926)

In the beginning of the 19th century the city had only 6389 inhabitants, in 1865 - 22816, in 1887 - 48000, and in 1897 the population increased to 121200 people. For the last thirty years of the century the population of the city increased 5 times. What was reason for such a population boom?
Two men: the Englishman John Hughes, who developed the Donetsk coal deposits, and the Ukrainian Alexandr Pol', who opened the Kryvyi Rih iron ores. He found ore casually in 1866 while involved in the archaeological research. The Donetsk coal was necessary for melting the pig-iron of Kryvyi Rih ore, and there was a need for a connecting railway. It wasn't until 1881 that the sanction for its construction was received, and in 1884 it began to work. The constant metal bridge through the Dnieper was opened. From this moment the city began to grow quickly.
New settlements appeared: Amur, Nizhnedniprovsk; and the factory areas developed. In 1897, because of the development of the city, third in the Russian Empire, Yekaterinoslav opened the electrical tram... In 1899 the High Mining School was opened, and by 1913 it had grown to be the Mining Institute.
The end of 1905 was filled with anti-tsar revolts. The atmosphere in society was heated. After the revolution of 1917 and the subsequent Civil War the city was dominated by ruin and an infinite change of authorities for some years. All this resulted in a paralysis of industry and transport.
During eight months of 1918, in the period of Hetman (the Chairman of Ukraine), under the decree of Hetman Pavlo Skoropads'kyi, the city was called Sicheslav. In 1926 the city of Yekaterinoslav was renamed - Dnipropetrovs'k had appeared.... The Dnipropetrovs'k city name consists of two words: "Dnipro" (the Dnieper River) and "Petrovs'k" (named for Petrovsky). Grigoriy Petrovsky (1878-1958) was the first Parliament (Soviet) leader of the new communist Ukrainian republic.
In May of 2016 the city was renamed in Dnipro by the law of "Decommunisation of Ukraine".