Editing Dnipro (section)

==Name==
===Current names===

* {{langx|uk|Дніпро}} {{IPA|uk|dn⁽ʲ⁾iˈprɔ||uk-Дніпро.ogg}}
* {{langx|ru|Днепр|Dnepr}} {{IPA|ru|dnʲepr|}}

=== Former names ===
*'''Novyi Kodak''' 1645–1784 
*'''Yekaterinoslav''' (also spelled Ekaterinoslav; {{langx|ru|Екатеринослав}} {{IPA|ru|jɪkətʲɪrʲɪnɐˈsɫaf|}}; {{langx|uk|Катеринослав|Katerynoslav}} {{IPA|uk|kɐtɛrɪnoˈslɑu̯|}}) 1784–1796 
*'''Novorossiysk''' ({{langx|ru|Новороссийск}} {{IPA|ru|nəvərɐˈsʲijsk|}}; {{Langx|uk|Новоросійськ|Novorosiisk}} {{IPA|uk|noʋoroˈs⁽ʲ⁾ijsʲk|}}) 1796–1802, briefly renamed during the reign of Catherine II's son, tsar [[Paul I of Russia|Paul I]]; however, the previous name was restored by tsar [[Alexander I of Russia|Alexander I]] after his father's assassination<ref name="dnipropetrovshina-istorichna-dovidka"/><ref name="ukrssr2"/>
*'''Yekaterinoslav''' 1802–1918, called '''Catharinoslav''' on some nineteenth-century maps.<ref>{{cite web |title=English map of 1820 |url=http://www.arhivtime.ru/karta/karta_arhiv/image_arhiv/01/1820.jpg |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110904080619/http://www.arhivtime.ru/karta/karta_arhiv/image_arhiv/01/1820.jpg |url-status=dead |archive-date=4 September 2011 |access-date=28 November 2014 |publisher=Arhivtime.ru |format=JPG }}</ref>
*'''Sicheslav''' ({{langx|uk|Січеслав}} {{IPA|uk|s⁽ʲ⁾it͡ʃeˈslɑu̯|}}) 1918–1921 (unofficial name)<ref>{{citation |url=http://w1.c1.rada.gov.ua/pls/zweb2/webproc4_1?pf3511=63949 |title=Проект Закону про внесення змін до статті 133 Конституції України (щодо перейменування Дніпропетровської області) |trans-title=Draft Law on Amendments to Article 133 of the Constitution of Ukraine (regarding the renaming of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast) |date=27 April 2018 |id=Number 8329 of the 8th session of the VIII convocation |publisher=Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine |access-date=28 April 2018}} {{citation |url=http://w1.c1.rada.gov.ua/pls/zweb2/webproc34?id=&pf3511=63949&pf35401=453959 |title=Пояснювальна записка 27.04.2018 |trans-title=Explanatory Note 27 April 2018}}</ref>
*'''Yekaterinoslav'''/'''Katerynoslav''' 1918–1926
*'''[[wiktionary:Dnipropetrovsk|Dnipropetrovsk]]''' ({{langx|uk|Дніпропетровськ|}} {{IPA|uk|ˌdn⁽ʲ⁾ipropeˈtrɔu̯sʲk|}}, also '''Dnipropetrovske''' ({{Langx|uk|Дніпропетровське}}) according to the [[Ukrainian orthography of 1928|Kharkiv orthography]] 1926–2016.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://r2u.org.ua/data/other/Правопис-1928.pdf |title=Ukrainskyi pravopys |publisher=Ukrainian State Publisher, USRR National Commissariat of Education |year=1929 |edition=1st |location=Kharkiv |pages=76 |language=uk |trans-title=Ukrainian Orthography |chapter=Heohrafichni nazvy |trans-chapter=Geographical names |quote=Назви міст кінчаються на '''-ське''', '''-цьке''' (а не -ськ, -цьк) [Names of cities end in -ske, -tske (and not -sk, -tsk)]}}</ref> The word originates from [[Ukrainian language|Ukrainian]] Дніпропетровськ, from Дніпро (Dnipro, "[[Dnieper|Dnieper River]]") + Петровський (Petrovsʹkyj), after Soviet revolutionary [[Grigory Petrovsky]] / '''Dnepropetrovsk''' ({{langx|ru|Днепропетровск}} {{IPA|dʲnʲɪprəpʲɪˈtrofsk|}}))

===Name history===
The original name of a [[Ukrainian Cossack]] city on the territory of modern Dnipro was '''Novyi Kodak''' ({{langx|uk|Новий Кодак}} {{IPA|uk|noˈʋɪj koˈdɑk|}}, New Kodak).<ref name="midnipromuseumnovyjkodak">{{in lang|uk}} [https://midnipro.museum/novyj-kodak New Kodak], {{ill|Museum Of Dnipro City History|uk|Музей історії Дніпра}} (26 March 2022)</ref> Also on the territory of Modern Dnipro, the [[Russian Empire]] founded '''Yekaterinoslav''' (''the glory of Catherine'').<ref name="Cybriwsky History of the Dnipro">{{Cite book |title=Along Ukraine's River: A Social and Environmental History of the Dnipro |last=Cybriwsky |first=Roman |publisher=Central European University Press |year=2018 |isbn=9789633862049 |pages=61 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M7pWDwAAQBAJ&q=%22Yekaterinoslav%22}}</ref> This name was first mentioned in a report to [[Azov Governorate|Azov Governor]] [[Vasily Chertkov]] to [[Grigory Potemkin]] on 23 April 1776. He wrote "The provincial city called Yekaterinoslav should be the best convenience on the right side of the [[Dnieper River]] near [[Kodak Fortress|Kaydak]]..." (Which referred to {{ill|New Kodak|uk|Нові Кодаки}}). The construction was officially transferred to the right bank in a decree of [[Emperor of all the Russias|Empress of Russia]] [[Catherine II]] of 23 January 1784.<ref name="ukrssr2"/>

In the 17th century the city was also known as '''Polovytsia'''.<ref>Mikhail Levchenko. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=cjcsAAAAYAAJ&dq=%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%8C%D1%89%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0+%D0%A3%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%97%D0%BD%D0%B0&pg=PA188 Hanshchyna (Ганьщина Україна)]''. Opyt russko-ukrainskago slovari︠a︡. Tip. Gubernskago upravlenii︠a︡, 1874</ref>

In 1918, the [[Central Council of Ukraine]] of the [[Ukrainian People's Republic]] proposed to change the name of the city to ''Sicheslav''; however, this was never finalised.<ref>[http://ukrweekly.com/uwwp/rada-approves-historic-bills-to-part-with-soviet-legacy/ Rada approves historic bills to part with Soviet legacy], [[The Ukrainian Weekly]] (17 April 2015)</ref>

In 1926 the city was renamed after [[communist]] leader [[Grigory Petrovsky]].<ref name=decommupbbcU>[http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2015/05/15/7068057/ Poroshenko signed the laws about decomunization]. [[Ukrayinska Pravda]]. 15 May 2015<br />[http://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/265988.html Poroshenko signs laws on denouncing Communist, Nazi regimes], [[Interfax-Ukraine]]. 15 May 20<br />[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32267075 Goodbye, Lenin: Ukraine moves to ban communist symbols], [[BBC News]] (14 April 2015)</ref><ref name=Petrovsky/> In some [[English language|Anglophone]] media Dnipro was nicknamed the '''Rocket City''' during the [[Cold War]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Zhuk, S |title=''Rock and Roll in the Rocket City: The West, Identity, and Ideology in Soviet Dniepropetrovsk, 1960–1985'' |publisher=Woodrow Wilson Center Press with Johns Hopkins University Press |date=2010 |isbn=978-0801895500}}</ref>

The 2015 [[decommunization in Ukraine|law on decommunization]] required the city to be renamed.<ref name=decommupbbcU/> On 29 December 2015 the [[Dnipro City Council]] officially changed the reference of the city naming from referring to Petrovsky to being in honor of [[Saint Peter]],<ref>[http://lb.ua/news/2015/12/29/324750_dnepropetrovsk_sobirayutsya.html LB.ua], ''Днепропетровск собираются "переименовать" в честь Святого Петра (Dnepropetrovsk to be "renamed" in honour of St. Peter)'', 29 December 2015.</ref> thus making the name consistent with the law without actually changing the name itself.

On 3 February 2016 a draft law was registered in the [[Verkhovna Rada]] (the Ukrainian parliament) to change the name of the city to ''Dnipro''.<ref>{{in lang|uk}} [http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2016/02/3/7097661 In Rada registered a bill to rename Dnipropetrovsk], [[Ukrayinska Pravda]] (3 February 2016)</ref> On 19 May 2016 the Ukrainian parliament passed a bill to officially rename the city (to ''Dnipro''). The resolution was approved by 247 out of the 344 MPs, with 16 opposing the measure.<ref name=drbvr>{{cite news |title=Dnipropetrovsk renamed Dnipro |url=http://www.unian.info/politics/1349664-dnipropetrovsk-renamed-dnipro.html |access-date=19 May 2016 |agency=UNIAN |quote=The decision comes into force from the date of its adoption.}}<br />{{in lang|uk}} [http://w1.c1.rada.gov.ua/pls/radan_gs09/ns_golos?g_id=7430 Верховна Рада України (Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine)], ''Поіменне голосування про проект Постанови про перейменування міста Дніпропетровська Дніпропетровської області (No.3864) (Roll-call vote on the draft resolution on renaming of Dnipropetrovsk Dnipropetrovsk region No.3864)'', 19 May 2016.</ref>{{#tag:ref|The city's mayor [[Borys Filatov]] described the renaming of the city as "controversial and irrelevant".<ref name=KP19May2016>[https://www.kyivpost.com/article/content/ukraine-politics/verkhovna-rada-renames-dnipropetrovsk-as-dnipro-414096.html Kyiv Post], ''Verkhovna Rada renames Dnipropetrovsk as Dnipro'', 19 May 2016.</ref> [[Oleksandr Vilkul]] (who stood against Filatov at the [[2015 Ukrainian local elections#Dnipropetrovsk|2015 mayoral election]]) claimed that 90% of residents were opposed to the change in the city's name.<ref name=KP19May2016/>|group=nb}}{{#tag:ref|On 1 June 2016 the Ukrainian parliament refused to support a resolution to cancel the renaming.<ref name="121016DD"/> On 16 June 2016, 48 MPs appealed against the renaming in the [[Constitutional Court of Ukraine]].<ref>[http://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/350680.html MPs appeal against Dnipropetrovsk renaming at Constitutional Court], [[Interfax-Ukraine]] (6 June 2016)</ref> The Constitutional Court refused to consider this case on 12 October 2016.<ref name="121016DD">{{in lang|uk}} [http://pda.pravda.com.ua/news/id_7123443 Constitutional Court refused to consider renaming Dnipropetrovsk], [[Ukrayinska Pravda]] (12 October 2016)</ref>|group=nb}}

Following the renaming of the city the reference to Petrovsky has been removed from institutions named after the city. A notable exception is the name of the surrounding province, which is listed in the territorial structure of Ukraine in [[Constitution of Ukraine|the Constitution]].<ref>[https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/ukraine/ Ukraine], [[The World Factbook]], as accessed on 9 February 2023</ref> Thus until a lengthy and complicated process of amending is carried out, it officially retains the name [[Dnipropetrovsk Oblast]].