Editing Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (section)

==Landmarks==
[[File:Спасо-Преображенськай собор, Дніпропетровьк.JPG|thumbnail|[[Transfiguration Cathedral, Dnipro|The Saviour's Transfiguration Cathedral]]]]
The following historical-cultural sites were nominated to the [[Seven Wonders of Ukraine]].
* [[File:UKAL icon.svg|Accessible open space]] [[Tomb of kosh otaman Sirko]]
* [[File:AP Icon.svg]] [[Troitsk Cathedral (Novomoskovsk)|Troitsk Cathedral]]
* [[File:AP Icon.svg]] [[Church of Virgin Mary Birth]]
* [[File:EH icon.svg]] [[The walls of Ukrainian defensive line]]
* [[File:EH icon.svg]] [[Kurgan stelae]] or Balbals are [[anthropomorphic]] stone [[stela]]e, images cut from stone, installed atop, within or around [[kurgan]]s (i.e. [[tumuli]]), in kurgan cemeteries, or in a double line extending from a kurgan. The stelae are also described as "obelisks" or "[[statue menhir|statue]] [[menhir]]s". Spanning more than three millennia, they are clearly the product of various cultures. The earliest are associated with the [[Pit Grave culture]] of the [[Pontic–Caspian steppe]] (and therefore with the [[Proto-Indo-Europeans]] according to the mainstream [[Kurgan hypothesis]]<ref>David W. Anthony, ''[[The Horse, The Wheel and Language|The Horse, The Wheel and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World]]'' (2007).</ref>). There are [[Iron Age]] specimens are identified with the [[Scythians]] and [[Middle Ages|medieval]] examples with [[Turkic peoples]]. Such stelae are found in large numbers in [[Dnipropetrovsk oblast|Dnipro]], [[Kherson Oblast|Kherson]] and [[Nikolaev oblast|Nikolaev]].
* [[File:CL icon.svg]] [[Kodak fortress]] was a fort built in 1635<ref>{{cite web |url=https://day.kyiv.ua/en/article/time-out/above-kodak |title=Above Kodak |author=Mykola Chaban |website=day.kyiv.ua |date=20 May 2010 }}</ref> by the order of [[Poland|Polish]] king [[Władysław IV Vasa]] and the [[Sejm]] over the [[Dnieper River]], near what was to become the town of [[Stari Kodaky]] (by modern day: [[Dnipro]]). It was constructed by [[Stanisław Koniecpolski]] to control [[Cossack]]s of [[Zaporizhian Sich]], prevent [[Ukrainians|Ukrainian]] [[peasants]] from joining forces with the Cossacks and guard the southeastern corner of the [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]]. The Poles tried to establish order in that area, and commissioned [[France|French]] military cartographer and engineer [[William le Vasseur de Beauplan]] to construct it. The fortress cost around 100,000 Polish zlotys. The [[dragoon]] garrison was commanded by the French officer [[Jean de Marion]]. Soviet government attempted to destroy the remnants of the fortress in order to eradicate traces of Polish influences on Ukraine by setting a quarry on that site in 1944. The quarry was closed in 1994, but at that time two-thirds of the fortress had been destroyed. Today the site is just ruins, but it is a popular tourist attraction.
* [[File:AP Icon.svg]] [[Transfiguration Cathedral, Dnipro|The Saviour's Transfiguration Cathedral]] (Ukrainian: Спасо-Преображенський кафедральний собор) is the main Orthodox church of Dnipro, Ukraine. The foundation stone was laid in 1786 by [[Catherine II]] of Russia and Emperor [[Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor|Joseph II]]. The event is described in the memoirs of comte de Ségur. Prince [[Grigory Potemkin]] envisioned the church as one of the spiritual centres of [[New Russia]]. [[Ivan Starov]] submitted to Potemkin his designs for a Roman-style basilica, but construction was postponed until the end of the [[Russo-Turkish War]].