A CITY OF OPPORTUNITIES DNIPRO MAYOR BORYS FILATOV: “Our goal is to relieve businessmen, investors, and ordinary citizens of the obligation of communicating with state functionaries. By reducing contact between the public and civil servants, we reduce corruption and make life easier for everyone”. Mayor Filatov personally welcomes investors to the city and will help ease their market entry at all stages of their business activity in the city of Dnipro. 3 CONTENTS 1. Message from the Mayor 3 7. Investment projects 33 7.1. Industrial Park 34 2. Contents 5 7.2. IT park offices and residential area 36 3. Dnipro in Ukraine and the World 6 7.3. Expocenters 37 7.4. "Space Lift" Science and 4. Dnipro City History 7 Technology Park 38 7.5. "Academia" Science and Technology Park 39 5. Dnipro Today 15 7.6. Float-glass factory 5.1. Dnipro at a Glance 16 40 7.7. Modernization of the transport 5.2. Economy 17 system 41 5.3. Education 18 7.8. New highways 42 5.4. Culture & Tourism 20 7.9. Ropeway 43 7.10. Dnipro International Airport 44 6. City development strategy 27 7.11. Business Aviation Terminal 45 6.1. City Development Strategy 28 7.12. Air Cargo Terminal and Hub 46 6.2. New industrial parks and zones 7.13. Thermodernization of Municipal of economic development 29 Buildings 47 6.3. IT Cluster 30 7.14. Integrated 31 6.4. Theme parks Thermo-Modernization of 6.5. Energy saving 32 Muncipal Buildings 48 6.6. Development of transport 32 7.15. Waste-to-Energy Processing 6.7. Ecology and waste 32 Complex 49 7.16. Agropark 50 7.17. Fruit And Vegetable Storage and Sorting Facility 51 7.18. Leisure Centre "Golf Resor" 52 7.19. Logistics Center "Green Market" 53 7.20. Polymer Materials Sheets Production 54 7.21. Production of Polimer Coatings on Galvanized Steel or Aluminum Sheets 55 7.22. Production of Bio Fuel Pellets 56 7.23. Production of Tanks from Polymer Materials 57 7.24. Atmospheric Air monitoring system 58 7.25. "Staryy Kodak" tourist and recreation park 59 7.26. "Stara Samar" tourist and recreation park 59 7.27. The Museum of History of the City of Dnipro 60 5 DNIPRO ON THE MAP THE WORLD DNIPRO IN UKRAINE Kyiv 480 km Kharkiv 220 km Poltava 200 km Vinnitsa 570 km Kropivnitsky 270 km Krivy Rig 145 km Mariupol 350 km Zaporizhzhia 80 km Odessa 520 km Kherson 330 km 6 DNIPRO CITY HISTORY HISTORY THE CITY AROSE ON THE BASIS OF THE SYSTEM OF COSSACK SETTLEMENTS IN 1524 STARA SAMAR NOVYY KODAK STARYY KODAK Reconstructions by Alexander Kharlan STRONG TRANSIT TRADE WITH HANSA LEAGUE, HOLLAND, OTTOMAN EMPIRE AND POLAND IN XVI-XVIII CENTURIES COINS COMMODITY SEALS 8 HISTORY AT THE END OF XVIII CENTURY RUSSIAN EMPIRE PLANNED TO CREATE HERE ITS THIRD SOUTHERN CAPITAL AND FORPOST THE SAVIOUR'S TRANSFIGURATION CATHEDRAL HISTORY FIRST PLAN OF EKATERINOSLAV CITY IN THE XIX CENTURY EKATERINOSLAV CITY USED TO BE THE CENTRE OF PROVINCE OF RUSSIAN EMPIRE WITH NO INDUSTRY GOVERNOR'S HOUSE 9 HISTORY THE RAMPANT TAKE-OFF OF THE CITY STARTS FROM THE END OF XIX CENTURY. ALEXANDER PAUL DISCOVERED IRON ORE AND BUILT THE RAILWAY ALEXANDER PAUL 10 HISTORY IRON FEVER: EXPERIENCING QUICK GROWTH DUE TO GERMAN, FRENCH AND BELGIAN INVESTMENTS, IRON AND STEEL BECAME THE MAIN INDUSTRY OF THE CITY HISTORY BELGIAN TRAM FACTORIES OF THE TIMES OF "IRON FEVER" 11 HISTORY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR, FIERCE FIGHTING WAS TAKING PLACE IN THE CITY HOTEL "UKRAINE" 1941 2017 AMUR BRIDGE 1941 2017 12 HISTORY FROM 1950TH THE CITY BECAME THE CENTRE OF ROCKET-BUILDING INDUSTRY OF THE SOVIET UNION MAIN OFFICE BUILDING YUZHMASH FACTORY ROCKET "SATAN" HISTORY AFTER UKRAINE BECAME INDEPENDENT, "YUZHMASH" COMPANY STARTED DEVELOPING SPACE ROCKETS, INCLUDING JOINT PROJECT WITH USA "SEA LOUNCH" 13 HISTORY IN 2014 DNIPRO CITY OPPOSED RUSSIAN SUPPORTED HYBRID WAR. PRO-UKRAINIAN POSITION OF THE INHABITANTS AND THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS IN UKRAINE STOPPED RUSSIAN AGRESSION THE MEETING TO SUPPORT INDEPENDENCE OF UKRAINE, 19TH OF FEBRUARY 2014 REGIMENT DNIPRO-1 ON THE POSITION OF "REPUBLIC BRIDGE" 14 DNIPRO TODAY DNIPRO AT A GLANCE DNIPRO KEY FACTS DNIPRO INNOVATIVE Distance to Kyiv – 465 km AEROSPACE: Area – 405 km2 Serial production, the most environmentally friendly rocket carriers in the world Population – 1002 thousand Telecommunication and remote sensing satellites Universities - 10 Participation in projects of ANTARES RN, Alcántara Age - 35% of population is from 20 to 40 High-end devices and systems 9 business centers 900 m2 of retail space per 1000 inhabitants IT OUTSOURCING: 7000 EMPLOYED, TOP-3 IT COMPANIES IN UKRAINE 10,2% of the GNP OF UKRAINE 16% of total EXPORTS OF UKRAINE DNIPRO TOURISTIC 1100 large and medium-sized companies 67 hotels 240 of them are industrial 20 shopping and entertainment complexes 25% of the region's total industrial products 460 cafes, 22 nightclubs DNIPRO INDUSTRIAL SPORT STEEL INDUSTRY: 12 large and medium-sized enterprises The main arena of Ukraine in canoeing and kayaking ENGINEERING: aviation, mine hydraulics, special electric 862 m cableway for water skiing and wakeboarding drives Dnipro soccer arena CHEMICAL AND PROCESSING INDUSTRY: rare gases production, battery production LIGHT INDUSTRY: high quality sewing, food industry FOOD INDUSTRY: sunflower oil 16 ECONOMY DNIPRO TODAY POWERFUL INDUSTRIAL POTENTIAL TWIN CITIES AGREEMENTS Іndustrial enterprises produce 4,5% of all industrial Vilnius Lithuania products of Ukraine Herzliya Israel The basis of the cityʼs industry is the metallurgy (12 large Dalian China and middle enterprises). The metallurgical complex Xian China produces 6,9% of the total production volume of the ferrous metallurgy of Ukraine Zilina Slovakia Kutaisi Georgia The cityʼs machine-building and metal-processing industries produce 10,5% of the national production Zugdidi Georgia volume of the machine-building complex Durham Canada 7 enterprises of the cityʼs chemical industry produce 7,5% Saloniki Greece of the total production volume of chemical and Tashkent Uzbekistan petrochemical industry of Ukraine Szczecin Poland The cityʼs light, food and processing industries produce Szolnok Hungary foodstuffs in volume of 5,6% of the total production of Bern Switzerland Ukraine The cityʼs building complex is on the second place in CONSULATES Ukraine: 150 building organizations, 56 design companies, 540 small-scale building companies Consulate General of Germany Honorary Consulate of the Republic of Lithuania Honorary Consulate of the Republic of Austria Honorary Consulate of Czech Republic FOREIGN TRADE The city has foreign economic activity almost with 130 countries of the world. The volume of export-import operations is over 7% of the external turnover of Ukraine The volume of export in 2016 is 1,3 USD billion The volume of import in 2016 is 1,9 USD billion 17 EDUCATION Dnipro is a major educational centre in Ukraine and is home to two of Ukraine's top-ten universities. 10 UNIVERSITIES 181 EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AMONG THEM SCHOOLS, GYMNASIUMS AND BOARDING SCHOOLS 203 PRESCHOOL EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENTS NUMEROUS OUTOFSCHOOL INSTITUTIONS SUCH AS YOUTH CLUBS AND CENTERS 18 HIGHER EDUCATION DNIPRO TODAY HIGHER EDUCATION One of Dnipro cityʼs points of pride is its higher education. It has a long and rich history. Its students, graduates and academics have long been known and appreciated worldwide, especially in the following areas: space programme, creation of energy-saving and environmentally friendly technologies in mining, metallurgy, chemical industry, construction, agriculture. Currently, there are 87 thousand students in all higher education establishments of Dnipro. THE MOST RENOWNED UNIVERSITIES OF DNIPRO: NATIONAL MINING UNIVERSITY OF UKRAINE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF RAILWAY TRANSPORT ALFRED NOBEL UNIVERSITY OLES HONCHAR NATIONAL UNIVERSITY NATIONAL METALLURGICAL ACADEMY OF UKRAINE In 2017 Ukraineʼs Higher Education system was ranked as the top in Eastern Europe by Universitas 21, ahead of Czech Republic, Poland, Slovenia, Russia and Slovakia. The research group sited high Education spending as a proportion of GDP compared to other nations as a likely cause of Ukraine having the best post secondary system in East Europe. 19 CULTURE & TOURISM DNIPRO IS RENOWNED FOR RICH AND ACTIVE CULTURAL LIFE HAVING 8 THEATERS, 4 MUSEUMS, 3 CONCERT HALLS, 86 LIBRARIES, 9 MOVIE HALLS, 16 CLUBS, 67 HOTELS One-man show "The Scream" Dnipro Theater Opera and Ballet Dnipro House of Organ and Chamber Music Dnipro Philharmonic named after Theatre of Ukrainian Drama named after Dnipro Theater of Drama and Musical L. Kogan Taras Shevchenko Comedy Art Center «Kvartira» Picture Gallery «TELEGA» Art Gallery ”Artsvit” Black Lizard Gallery-book store Art center «I Gallery» Art Museum 20 Dnipro National Historical Museum named after Dnipro Museum of D. Yavornitsky D. Yavornitsky DNIPRO TODAY Museum centre of O. Blavatska and her family Dnipro Planetarium The museum “Literary Dnipro” Museum “Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine” Technical museum RetroAuto The museum of ukrainian painting Dnipro region Antiterrorist operation museum 21 TOP DNIPRO TOURIST ATTRACTIONS Dnipro is a place of considerable touristic charm. Located on the banks of the Dnipro River in a region rich in natural beauty and steeped in Ukrainian Cossack tradition, todayʼs Dnipro offers a range of recreation and leisure activities that make it a fun city break destination. This chic boulevard is a relatively new and fresh arrival to the Dnipro downtown architectural ensemble. It is one of the cityʼs most popular eating out and retail focuses. The district includes a range of fountains and other funky design elements such as overhead decorations. In the long and sultry summer months, it plays host to a series of terraces and streetside cafes that attract Dniproʼs beautiful people. EKATERINOSLAVSKIY BOULEVARD 22 TOP ATTRACTIONS MONASTERY ISLAND This downtown natural treasure is a wonderful place for family strolls and romantic interludes all year round.