Citations:Dnipro


 * 1913, George Dobson, Russia, London: A. and C. Black, p 345:
 * But in the national life neither the Neva nor even ‘Dnipro batko’ of the Ukraine has played such a part as ‘little mother Volga,’ the great flood known to classical writers as the Rha, and to Armenians as the Tamar, whose Finnish Name means ‘Great Water.’
 * 1919, “Notes and Memoranda,” The Engineer (London), v 127, n 3309 (May 30), p 533:
 * The cataracts of the Dnipro alone would give 1,000,000 horse-power, and those of the southern Buh about 10,000 horse-power.
 * 1925, Humphrey Kowalsky, Ukrainian Folk Songs: A Historical Treatise, Boston, MA: Stratford, p 32–33:
 * As a consequence of this feeling there arose on the lower left bank of the river Dnipro (Dnieper), a Ukrainian knighthood—the Cossacks who at the end of the Fifteenth century organized in Sitch under Ostap Dashkevitch, and consequently organized into a strong military force under Prince Demetrius Wyshnevetsky in 1515, and became the bulwark of the Ukraine against the Turks, Poles and Russians.
 * 1947, Honore Ewach, Ukraine’s Call to America, Detroit, MI: Ukrainian Cultural Society, p 21:
 * It was due to Skovoroda’s influence that Ukraine of the left bank of Dnipro was the first of the Ukrainian territories to regain its national consciousness and produced the first Ukrainian writers who wrote in the vernacular — Ivan Kotlyarevsky and Hrihory Kvitka.
 * 1949, I. Mirchuk ed., Ukraine and its People: A Handbook, Munich: Ukrainian Free University Press:
 * [“List of Names,” p vi] Dnipro . . . Dnepr, (Dnieper)
 * [p 17] Jews — 3 millions — ⅔ of them in towns, live west of the Dnipro (the boundary of their former settlement under the Tsars), and from 2–3% of the population of Left Bank Ukraine and less than 1% in Slobodian Ukraine and the Caucasus. [. . .] If we study the development of national minorities up to the time of enforced collectivization, we notice that the Ukrainian element in Dnipro-Ukraine was strengthened, while it receded in Western Ukraine under pressure from the Poles.
 * 1960, Digest of the Soviet Ukrainian Press, vv 4–5, New York: Suchasnist (Prolog Research):
 * [p 2] Our Republic is continuing to build a cascade of hydroelectric power plants on the Dnipro (Dnieper) River. During the post-war period the V.I. Lenin Dniprohes (The Dnipro hydroelectric station–Ed.) has been rebuilt, and the Kakhovka and Kremenchuk hydroelectric stations have started operations.
 * [p 14] The awakening of national life in Ukraine on the Dnipro River exerted a major influence on the Western Ukrainian lands: Eastern Galicia, Bukovyna and Transcarpathia which were under the heel of the Austrian monarchy.
 * 1961, Vera Rich transl., Song Out of Darkness: Selected Poems, London: The Mitre Press:
 * [V. Svoboda, “Introduction,” p xxxii] Correct transliterations, such as “Kyiv”, “the Dnipro”, are preferred by the translator even when traditional spellings (“Kiev”, “the Dnieper”) exist in English.
 * [p 85] Whence one may see wide-skirted wheatland, / Dnipro’s steep-cliffed shore, / There whence one may hear the blustering / River wildly roar.
 * 1968, Digest of the Soviet Ukrainian Press, vv 12–13, New York: Suchasnist (Prolog Research), p 14:
 * “The Dnipro -- which now bisects Kiev practically down the middle, with its islands, now almost in the geographical centre of the city -- plays a vital role in the Master Plan. It is on the Dnipro marshes that the majority of new housing will be constructed. . .
 * 2014, Matthew D. Pauly, Breaking the Tongue: Language, Education, and Power in Soviet Ukraine, 1923–1934, University of Toronto Press, p 94:
 * Because of the socio-economic composition of the Podil, he claimed, students attending the school in the district would largely come from the labouring population, including unpropertied peasants living in the villages across the Dnipro River and near the city.
 * 2018, Roman Adrian Cybriwsky, Along Ukraine’s River: A Social and Environmental History of the Dnipro, Budapest: Central European University Press, p 1:
 * The Dnipro, formerly the Dnieper River, is with its 2,285 kilometers the third-longest river in Europe and the central geographical feature of Ukraine, the largest country that is entirely within the European continent.
 * The Dnipro, formerly the Dnieper River, is with its 2,285 kilometers the third-longest river in Europe and the central geographical feature of Ukraine, the largest country that is entirely within the European continent.