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Encyclopedia > Dniprodzerzhynsk

Dniprodzerzhynsk (Ukrainian: Дніпродзержинськ, Dniprodzerzhyns'k; Russian: Днепродзержинск, formerly Kamenskoye) is a city in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast of Ukraine, a port on the Dnieper river. Image File history File links Dneprodzerzhinsk_CoA.gif CoA of Dneprodzerzhynsk, UA. Source http://www. ... Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (Дніпропетровська область, Dnipropetrovs’ka oblast’ or Дніпропетровщина, Dnipropetrovshchyna in Ukrainian) is an oblast of central Ukraine. ... The Dnieper River (also: Dnepr, Dniapro, or Dnipro) is a river (2,290 km length) which flows from Russia through Belarus and then Ukraine. ...


Leonid Brezhnev was born in Dniprodzerzhynsk. Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (help· info) (Russian: ) (December 19 [O.S. December 6] 1906 – November 10, 1982) was the effective ruler of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982, though at first in partnership with others. ...


In 1996, a tram derailed on one of the city's streets causing dozens of deaths. That accident has had a significant effect on the worldwide discussion regarding use of trams in the hilly localities. 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... A modern tram in the Töölö district of Helsinki, Finland Map showing the tramway system in Oslo, Norway Volkswagen Cargo-Tram in Dresden. ... An accident is something going wrong unexpectedly. ...


Population around 250,000. Dniprodzerzhynsk has a lot of factories and diferent industries,therefore it is one of the most polluted cities in the world.


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Dniprodzerzhynsk (Ukrainian: Дніпродзержинськ, Dniprodzerzhyns'k; Russian: Днепродзержинск, formerly Kamenskoye) is a city in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast of Ukraine, a port on the Dnieper river.
In 1996, a tram derailed on one of the city's streets causing dozens of deaths.
Dniprodzerzhynsk has a lot of factories and diferent industries,therefore it is one of the most polluted cities in the world.
Dreams of better life end in a nightmare of sexual slavery (1866 words)
DNIPRODZERZHYNSK, Ukraine -- It was the simple dream of working in an honest job for a modestly better life that got Yelena into trouble.
Interviewed in her hometown of Dniprodzerzhynsk, a mill town of 284,000 on the Dnieper River, Yelena said she was trying to leave a life of poverty to become a waitress in Yugoslavia.
In Dniprodzerzhynsk, Yelena was making an average of $15 a month selling newspapers on the street to support herself and her 7-year-old daughter.
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