Dnepropetrovsk


Also found in: Thesaurus, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia.

Dni·pro·pe·trovs'k

 (nē′prō-pə-trôfsk′, dnyē′-) or Dne·pro·pe·trovsk (nĕp′rō-, dnyĭ′prō-)
A city of east-central Ukraine on the Dnieper River south-southwest of Kharkiv. Founded in 1787 on the site of a Cossack village, it has a huge iron and steel industry.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Dnepropetrovsk

(Russian dnɪprəpɪˈtrɔfsk)
n
(Placename) a city in E central Ukraine on the Dnieper River: a major centre of the metallurgical industry. Pop: 1 036 000 (2005 est). Former name (1787–1796, 1802–1926): Yekaterinoslav
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

Dne•pro•pe•trovsk

(ˌnɛp roʊ pɪˈtrɔfsk)

n.
a city in E central Ukraine, on the Dnieper River. 1,187,000.
Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.
References in periodicals archive ?
Tekhnomash LLC (formerly Dnepropetrovsk Plant of Mining Equipment) has been operating since 1960.
This 246MW large-scale PV plant is to be built in Dnepropetrovsk in central Ukraine.
Wix's headquarters are in Tel Aviv with offices in Be'er Sheva, San Francisco, New York, Miami, Berlin, Vilnius and Dnepropetrovsk.
DNEPROPETROVSK -- On Vladimir Putin's occupied and bleeding lands, and on those which are (still) in the Ukrainians' hands, under a serious economic crisis and high inflation, Ukraine's Jews are living between the devil and the deep blue sea.
In addition, several flights and trucks with much-needed humanitarian cargo will be arriving in the East Ukrainian city of Dnepropetrovsk tomorrow.
Ukraine's reopens Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk airports Ukraine International Airlines is set to resume services to the eastern cities of Kharkov and Dnepropetrovsk after Ukrainian authorities rescinded a decision to close the airports there late last week.
In another report by Colonel Cassad, a Russian website, the organization declared that Ukraine's airports located in Dnepropetrovsk, Kharkov and Zaporozyhe were closed for some unidentified reason.
Chmilenko said he had some information that the Kiev administration intended to do a similar thing in Krasnoarmeysk, Donetsk region, to join it to the Dnepropetrovsk region.
It added that the route map in Ukraine will also expand to include the only direct services from Dubai to the Black Sea resort of Odessa as well as Dnepropetrovsk in the east of the country, with flights to Odessa to begin on September 15, the same day the carrier adds capacity to the capital, Kiev, to which it will fly double daily.
The route map in Ukraine, meanwhile, will also expand to include the only direct services from Dubai to the Black Sea resort of Odessa as well as Dnepropetrovsk in the east of the country.
Ukrainian businessmen expressed greatest interest for investing in FYR Macedonia's tourism, agricultural, energy sectors, machinery industry, mining and construction.The FYR Macedonian delegation, which also includes Bill Pavleski, the Minister without portfolio responsible for attracting foreign investments, and CEO of Technological Industrial Development Zones (TIDZs) Viktor Mizo, held talks with Dnepropetrovsk Gubernator and his economic team, discussing possibilities for bolstering the economic cooperation.