City Detail

Nikopol (Ukrainian: Ні́кополь [ˈn⁽ʲ⁾ikopolʲ]; from Ancient Greek: Νικόπολις, lit. 'City of Victory') is a city and municipality (hromada) in Nikopol District in the south of Ukraine, on the right bank of the Dnipro River, about 63 km south-east of Kryvyy Rih and 48 km south-west of Zaporizhzhya. Population: 107,464 (2021 est.)In terms of population, Nikopol is the third biggest city in the Dniopropetrovsk Oblast as well as among the top 50 nationwide. Located on a cape by the Kakhovka reservoir, Nikopol is a powerful industrial city which has several pipe producing factories (known for the Interpipe corporation), steel rolling mills (such as a factory of ferroalloys) and others. Transformed by the Russian Empire into Slaviansk and later Nikopol, the city has a rich preceding history with the 1638–1652 settlement of Mykytyn Rih being a capital of Zaporizhian Sich. It was one of the main crossings over the Dnipro river.