Novomoskovsk, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast

For a city in Tula Oblast, see Novomoskovsk, Russia.

Novomoskovsk (Ukrainian: Новомосковськ) (Russian: Новомосковск) is a city in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (province) of Ukraine. Administratively, Novomoskovsk is incorporated as the city of oblast significance and serves as the administrative center of Novomoskovsk Raion (district) which it does not belong to. Population: 70,787 (2013 est.). In 2001, the city's population was 72,439.

Novomoskovsk is located predominantly on the right bank of Samara River, which is one of the left confluents of Dnieper River. Until 1782, when the city has got its current name, it was known as Samar, Samara, or Samarchyk. The city is located 27 kilometres from the oblast capital, Dnipropetrovsk.

The city is famous for the Holy-Trinity Cathedral, built in 1778 by Yakym Pohrybniak from wood without any nails.

Gallery

• Братські й настоятельські келії.jpg

  Novomoskovsk monastery

• Novomoskovsk Cathedral.JPG

  Former synagogue building in Novomoskovsk

• Новомосковськ Миколаївський собор.jpg

  St. Nicholas Cathedral

• Радянська 29-1.jpg

  Novomoskovsk Technical Institute

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  Stalinist architecture

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  A residential building in downtown Novomoskovsk

External links

• (Ukrainian) Official city website
• The murder of the Jews of Novomoskovsk during World War II, at Yad Vashem website.