Dnipro. Reading. Form 8

Dnipro is Ukraine's fourth-largest city.

Above two million people live in Dnipro.

Dnipro is situated in the western part of Ukraine.

It is on the Dnipro-River.

The first town in what is now Dnipro was built in the middle of seventeenth century.

By the Ottoman Empire it was called Kodak.

Dnipro has been known by many names: Yekaterinoslav, Novorossiysk, Yekaterinoslav, Sicheslav,  Katerynoslav, Dnipropetrovsk, Dnipro. 

On 19^th May 2015 the official name of the city was changed from Dnipropetrovsk to Dnipro.

The Black Sea keeps the climate mild.

The major street of the city is Akademik Vernadsky Prospekt.

In the heart of the city is Soborna Square.

There are the Museum of History, Diorama "Battle for the Dnipro-River (World War II)" and the park on this square.