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27-502: Nikopol (derived from Greek Nicopolis (Νικόπολις), "City of Victory") may refer to: Places and regions [ edit ] Nikopol, Ukraine Nikopol Raion , Ukraine FC Elektrometalurh-NZF Nikopol , a Ukrainian football club FC Nikopol , a Ukrainian football club Nikopol Ferroalloy Plant Nikopol, Bulgaria Nikopol municipality , Bulgaria Battle of Nikopol Roman Catholic Diocese of Nicopoli Nikopol Point ,

54-656: A coastal feature in the South Shetland Islands in the Antarctic, named after Nikopol, Bulgaria Entertainment and fiction [ edit ] The Nikopol Trilogy , a series of graphic novels by Enki Bilal Nikopol, the main character in the 2004 film Immortal , based on the books Nikopol: Secrets of the Immortals , a White Birds Productions video game based on the books See also [ edit ] Nicopolis (disambiguation) Topics referred to by

81-520: A folk legend, a Cossack named Mykyta Tsyhan established it. Under the same name, the crossing is mentioned in the diary of the Holy Roman Empire envoy Erich Lassota von Steblau  [ de ] , who visited the Zaporizhian Sich in 1594. In 1638-1639, Cossacks led by F. Linchai built a fort which was named Mykytyn Sich ( Ukrainian : Микитинська Січ ). In 1652, due to conflict with

108-472: A quarter of the city's population, smaller Minorities are Belarusians , Germans and Jews . In terms of spoken languages, almost 60% of the population considers Ukrainian to be their first language, while roughly 40% considered Russian as their native language. The exact ethnic and linguistic composition was: There is bus station, railway station and river port, which connect the town with other cities. Nikopol River Port facilitates transportation for

135-591: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Nikopol, Ukraine Nikopol is the fourth-most populous city in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast . Located on a cape by the Kakhovka reservoir , it is a powerful industrial city with several pipe-producing factories, such as the Interpipe corporation, and steel rolling mills, such as the factory of ferroalloys . Formerly,

162-782: The Bronze Age , the Scythian period, and the Kievan Rus' . The 14th-century Kuchuhurske settlement, the largest known settlement of the Golden Horde on the Dnieper that is generally identified as the city of Mamai-Sarai  [ uk ] , was located in the Great Meadow. In 16th–18th centuries, the Great Meadow was one of the most important areas of the Zaporozhian Sich . In contrast to

189-740: The Grand Meadow National Nature Park was created from small islands and coastal areas of eastern Kakhovka Reservoir in Zaporizhzhia Oblast , and similarly the Kamianska Sich National Nature Park  [ uk ] was formed in 2019 in right-bank Kherson Oblast . In June of 2023, the Kakhovka Dam was destroyed , and the reservoir was drained. On 12 March 2024, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine banned

216-694: The Hetman of Zaporizhian Host , Kosh Otaman Fedir Liutay moved the administrative seat to Chortomlyk . By 1648, in the proximity of today's Nikopol, Mykytyn Sich was built. It is renowned for the location of Bohdan Khmelnytsky being elected as the Hetman of Ukraine and as where the Khmelnytsky Uprising against the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth started. Until 1775, the time of the Sich sacking , it

243-543: The Holodomor , inhabitants of the Great Meadow were saved from starvation by foraging for roots and water nuts . In 1950s, the Kakhovka Dam was built, and the resulting Kakhovka Reservoir flooded the Great Meadow, including over 90 villages in it. Around 37,000 residents were forced to resettle. In return, the reservoir provided irrigation to vast areas of southern Ukraine, and the dam generated some electricity. In 2006,

270-553: The 18th century, Grigoriy Potyomkin ordered the building of an Imperial Russian fortress at Slaviansk. Eventually, the project was scrapped. Soon after the liquidation of the Zaporozhian Sich in 1782, the settlement was renamed Nikopol. During World War II , Nikopol was occupied by the German Army until 18 February 1944. Albert Speer referred to it as the "center of manganese mining", and, therefore, of vital importance to

297-510: The 3rd-1st millenniums BCE were found stone and bronze tools, clay sharp-bottomed ornamental dishes. Also found were burials from the Scythian-Sarmatian period, between the 2nd century BCE and the 2nd century CE. At the beginning of the 16th century, in the location of modern Nikopol, appeared a river crossing over the Dnieper controlled by Cossacks , called Mykytyn Rih . According to

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324-520: The Dnipro. Nikopol is, further, one of the chief places on the lower Dnieper for the export of corn, linseed, hemp, and wool. According to archaeological excavations, the city's area was populated as early as the Neolithic epoch in the 4th millennium BCE as evidenced by remnants of a settlement discovered on banks of Mala Kamianka River  [ uk ] . In burial mounds from the copper-bronze epoch of

351-568: The German war effort. The Soviet policy of industrialization created the Kakhovka Reservoir which existed from 1956 to 2023, submerging what could be now the most sacred place of an early distinctly Ukrainian statehood: the lands of the former Zaporizhian Host , with their burial sites. Until July 2020, Nikopol was incorporated as a city of oblast significance and served as the administrative center of Nikopol Raion, though it did not belong to

378-461: The Great Meadow was covered by a continuous young willow forest, and started getting repopulated by land animals. The area will go through ecological succession that, in at least 30 years, will result in the formation of a mature forest. This large-scale phenomenon allows the study of the development of forest ecosystems in river valleys that was not possible before. The Great Meadow was inhabited since ancient times, with some findings dating back to

405-501: The battles fought to possess this important strategic point. One of the graves, close to the town, contained, along with other Scythian antiquities, a well-known precious vase representing the capture of wild horses. Even now Nikopol, which is situated on the highway from Dnipro to Kherson , is the point where the "salt-highway" of the Chumaks (Ukrainian salt-carriers) to the Crimea crossed

432-510: The capital of the Zaporizhian Sich . It was one of the main crossings over the Dnieper, located on the shore of the Great Meadow . The 1911 edition of Encyclopedia Britannica gave the following description of Nikopol: "It was formerly called Nikitin Rog, and occupies an elongated peninsula between two arms of the Dnieper at a point where its banks are low and marshy, and has been for centuries one of

459-504: The former Nikopol Tube Plant, established in 1931, which is now divided into smaller plants (e.g. Centravis, Interpipe Niko Tube). The Nikopol Ferroalloy Plant is the largest in Europe and the second largest in the world in the production of Ferromanganese (FeMn) and Ferrosilicomanganese (FeSiMn). As of the 2001 Ukrainian census , Nikopol had a population of 138,218 inhabitants, of whom the majority are ethnic Ukrainians . Russians account for

486-496: The metallurgical industry and travel. Nikopol is twinned with: Great Meadow, Ukraine The Great Meadow or Grand Meadow ( Ukrainian : Великий луг , romanized :  Velykyi luh ) is a lowland area on the Dnieper and the Konka to the south of Khortytsia Island that historically consisted of a system of rivers, reed beds , swamps, flooded forests , and meadows. The Great Meadow ceased to exist in 1950s, when it

513-469: The places where the middle Dnieper can most conveniently be crossed." In 1900, its 21,282 inhabitants were Ukrainians , Jews and Mennonites , who carry on agriculture and shipbuilding. The old Sich , or fortified camp of the Zaporozhian Cossacks , brilliantly described in N. V. Gogol 's novel Taras Bulba (1834) was situated a little higher up the river. Several graves in the vicinity recall

540-451: The raion. In July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast to seven, the city of Nikopol was merged into Nikopol Raion. Just a few kilometres west of the city, the Kosh otaman Ivan Sirko is buried. Nikopol is one of the largest towns in the region, with a population of 105,160 in 2022. The largest manufacturers include

567-514: The reservoir's existence. The area was covered in numerous trees, including aspen , oak , and willow , and was inhabited by hares, foxes, deer, wild pigs, martens, and wolves. Upon the creation of the Kakhovka Reservoir, the former landscape was destroyed, and the inundated area became inhabited by fish instead. In turn, when the reservoir was drained, the fish population died out, totaling 11.4 thousand tons of dead fish. By summer of 2024,

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594-449: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Nikopol . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nikopol&oldid=846367993 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

621-522: The settlement served as one of the capital cities of the Zaporizhian Sich and was known as one of the main crossings over the Dnieper. Renamed by the Russian Empire into Slaviansk and later Nikopol (after Ancient Greek : Νικόπολις , lit.   'City of Victory'), the city has a rich preceding history. Between 1638 and 1652, it was the settlement of Mykytyn Rih ( Ukrainian : Микитин Ріг , literally Mykyta's bend or Mykyta's horn ),

648-745: The surrounding dry steppe, the Great Meadow was permanently inhabited by the Cossacks . The area was used for agriculture, raising livestock, and as a source of wood. The dense forest also protected the Cossacks from invasions. Six of eight Sichs (administrative centres of the Zaporozhian Cossacks) were located in the Great Meadow: Tomakivka  [ uk ] , Bazavluk  [ uk ] , Mykytyn  [ uk ] , Chortomlyk , Kamianka  [ uk ] , and Nova Sich . During

675-401: The transfer of ownership or use of land that emerged from the former reservoir due to plans of restoring the dam. While hydrologists and power engineers support the reconstruction of the dam, numerous ecologists, historians, and archaeologists resist the idea and propose to make the Great Meadow a protected natural and historic area instead. Archaeological looting became widespread soon after

702-461: Was called "Mykytyn Rih", "Mykytyn Pereviz", or simply "Mykytyne". The name rih (Ukrainian for horn) was given because the locality rose at a place reminiscing a peninsula, as it was almost surrounded by the Dnieper river (see Kryvyi Rih ). Mykytyne was a town of the Kodak Palanka, an administrative division of the Zaporizhian Sich . Later, it was renamed into Slovianske and then Nikopol. In

729-575: Was flooded by the Kakhovka Reservoir , and re-emerged in 2023 upon the destruction of the Kakhovka Dam during the Russian invasion of Ukraine . The Great Meadow is located on the Black Sea Lowland and surrounded by the Pontic–Caspian steppe . It is around 20 km wide and 100 km long. The tallest areas in the east — Velyki and Mali Kuchuhury  [ uk ] — formed islands during

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