Nikopol, Ukraine

Nikopol Нікополь Ни́кополь
City of regional significance
City Administration Building.
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Nikopol Nikopol in Ukraine
Coordinates: 47°34′N 34°24′E / 47.567°N 34.400°E / 47.567; 34.400Coordinates: 47°34′N 34°24′E / 47.567°N 34.400°E / 47.567; 34.400
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
City Municipality	Nikopol
Founded	1782
City status	1915
Area
• Total	59 km2 (23 sq mi)
Elevation	70 m (230 ft)
Population (2013)
• Total	118,720
• Density	2,764/km2 (7,160/sq mi)
Postal code	53200—53239
Area code(s)	+380-5662
Website	portal.nikopol.net

Nikopol (Ukrainian: Ні́кополь, Ukrainian pronunciation: [ˈnʲikɔpɔlʲ]; Russian: Ни́кополь; Greek: Νικόπολις, literally: "City of Victory") is a city in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast of Ukraine, on the right bank of the Dnieper River, about 100 km south-west of Dnipropetrovsk. Administratively, Nikopol is incorporated as the city of oblast significance and serves as the administrative center of Nikopol Raion which it does not belong to. Population: 116,834 (2015 est.).

In terms of population, Nikopol is the third biggest city in the oblast as well as among the top 50 nationwide. The city is also a powerful industrial and transportation center in the country conveniently located by the Kakhovka reservoir.

The 1911 edition of Encyclopædia Britannica gave the following description of Nikopol: It was formerly called "Mykytyn 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 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. A number of graves in the vicinity recall the battles which were fought for the possession of this important strategic point. One of 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 Dnipropetrovsk to Kherson, is the point where the "salt-highway" of the Chumaks (Ukrainian salt-carriers) to the Crimea crosses the Dnieper. Nikopol is, further, one of the chief places on the lower Dnieper for the export of corn, linseed, hemp and wool.