Editing Dnipro (section)

=== 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|}}))