Editing Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (section)

==Economy==
The Dnipropetrovsk Oblast has a high industry potential. There are 712 basic industrial organizations, including 20 different types of economic activity with about 473,4 thousand workers. The area also produces about 16.9% of the total industry production of Ukraine. This places the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast second in Ukraine (after the neighbouring [[Donetsk Oblast]]).

Dnipro is a major industrial centre of Ukraine. It has several facilities devoted to heavy industry that produce a wide range of products, including [[cast-iron]], rolled metal, pipes, [[machinery]], different mining combines, [[agricultural equipment]], [[tractor]]s, [[trolleybus]]es, refrigerators, different chemicals and many others. {{Citation needed|date=March 2012}} The most famous and the oldest (founded in the 19th century) is the Metallurgical Plant named after Petrovsky. The city also has big food processing and light industry factories. Many sewing and dress-making factories work for [[France]], [[Canada]], [[Germany]] and [[Great Britain]] {{citation needed|date=February 2014}}, using the most advanced technologies, materials and design. Dnipro also formerly dominated in the [[aerospace industry]] since the 1950s: engineering department [[Yuzhnoye Design Bureau]] and construction at [[PA Pivdenmash|Pivdenmash]].

[[PA Pivdenmash|Pivdenmash]], the former [[Yuzhmash]], is a manufacturer of space [[rocket]]s, [[agricultural equipment]], [[bus]]es, [[trolley bus]]es, [[tram]]s, [[wind turbine]]s, and [[satellite]]s that was inherited from the [[Soviet Union]]. It is a large state-owned{{by whom|date=July 2014}}<!-- this article covers 1950s onward. at one time, perhaps, the USSR. But what about today? If not USSR, when and how did it change? --> company located in [[Dnipro]].

[[Dniproavia]], an airline, has its head office on the grounds of [[Dnipropetrovsk International Airport]].<ref>"[http://www.dniproavia.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=31&Itemid=11&lang=en Contacts]." [[Dniproavia]]. Retrieved 21 June 2010.</ref>
The region possesses major deposits of iron ore and some other metallurgical ores. To exploit them, several large mining companies were founded here in the middle of the 20th century. Most of them are located in Kryvyi Rih itself, which is the longest city in Europe. Steel companies of the region (except Mittal Steel-owned Kryvorizhstal) are controlled by either the [[Privat Group]] or the [[SCM Holdings|SCM]]. From the 1990s until 2004, these once united and state-owned industries went through a hard and scandal-ridden process of privatization. Being a business oligarch entity, Privat Group controls some prominent Ukrainian media, maintains close relations with politicians and sponsors professional sports. Key businesses of the group (including the [[PrivatBank]] itself) are based in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, which is regarded as its "homeland". Group's founding owners are natives of Dnipropetrovsk and made their entire career there.

[[ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih]], owned by [[ArcelorMittal]] since 2005 is the largest private company by revenue in Ukraine,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kyivpost.com/media/images/data/images/01-32_KyivPost_38-9/original.jpg |title=Top Ukrainian Companies by Revenue |website=kyivpost.com |date=2011 }}</ref> producing over 7 million tonnes of crude steel, and mined over 17 million tonnes of iron ore. As of 2011, the company employed about 37,000 people. 4 Iron Ore Enrichment Works of [[Metinvest]] are a large contributors to the UA's [[balance of payments]]. The third giant – [[Evraz]] mining company.
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