Verkhniodniprovsk

Verkhniodniprovsk (Верхньодніпровськ, ) is a city in Kamianske Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (province) of Ukraine. The city is located at confluence of the Samotkan into the Kamianske Reservoir at the Dnieper. Verkhniodniprovsk hosts the administration of Verkhniodniprovsk urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: In 2001, the population was 16,976.

Until 18 July 2020, Verkhniodniprovsk was the administrative center of Verkhniodniprovsk Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast to seven. The area of Verkhniodniprovsk Raion was merged into Kamianske Raion.

Transport
The city is located 13 km from train station named Verkhniodniprovsk in Novomykolaivka, 25 km north-west from Kamianske, 73 km north-west from Dnipro.

Notable people

 * Verkhniodniprovsk was the birthplace of politician Volodymyr Shcherbytsky, who served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine from 1972 to 1989. On 4 April 2016 the bust of Shcherbytskyi in Verkhniodniprovsk was removed from the state register and lost its status of being a monument, instead the city council gave it the status of "an integral element of landscaping." The bust was dismantled on 18 January 2024.
 * Yehor Yarmolyuk (born 2004), Ukrainian footballer