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Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine

Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine
Name: Kryvyi Rih
Country: Ukraine
Signing an agreement: 22.02.2023
Type of agreement: partnership agreement
Year: 2023
Website: kr.gov.ua
Contact: Kryvyi Rih urban hromada [Криворізька міська рада]
1 Molodizhna Sq.
50101 Kryvyi Rih
Dnipropetrovsk oblast

Kryvyi Rih is a city in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast in eastern Ukraine. It was founded at the confluence of two rivers, Inhulets and Saksahan. The locality is first mentioned in a historic document known as, The List of Post Offices along the Ingulec River from Kremenchuk to Kherson, dated 27 April 1775.

There are two narratives that explain the origin of the city’s name. One says that the name comes from the shape of a landmass formed by the confluence of two rivers. The other suggests that the name comes from one of the first Cossack settlers called Rog (“horn”) and nicknamed Kryvyi (“crooked”).

The rapid development of the city begins in 1881 when iron ore deposits are discovered. Ever since, the city has been known for its iron-rich land and heavy industry, which covers large enterprises, Europe’s deepest mines, or giant quarries.

Today’s Kryvyi Rih is a large industrial city. The region abounds in mineral like no other part of Ukraine. Most of the discovered deposits come from ancient times. The most noteworthy are different ores, lignite, marble, dolomite (40% of Ukraine’s balance reserves), shale, and many other natural resources. The city is on less famous for the mining of precious stones. The cityscape has been largely man-made and bears witness to the many years’ mineral extraction and urban development. The region is home to one of the deepest quarries in the world. This 400-metre deep extraction site has been opencast-mined for years. It reveals an extraordinary landscape with powerful trucks and special trains carrying output up the slope.

The city itself has an unusual urban layout. More than ten city districts are separated from each other by heaps, factories, railway tracks, post-mine ponds, and wastelands. In order to connect and improve transport between the most distant estates, a fast tram line construction project, called “metrotram” by the locals, was launched in 1974. The fast tram has twelve stations along a twenty-six kilometre line. It is completely isolated from the regular vehicle traffic in the city. 46,000 commuters use it every day.

Kryvyi Rih attracts visitors by investing in industrial tourism. For example, tourists can take a lift down a mine shaft to reach 1,556 m underground. It is the deepest tourist route in the world. There are more such sites made available to tourists in Kryvyi Rih, for example, a steel mill or a pipe rolling mill. Such facilities attract many enthusiasts of this type of attractions. Some other interesting relics of industrial history, there are sections of the 19th-century railway that connected the ore mines in Kryvyi Rih with the hard coal mines in the region of Donetsk. The city’s highway is Posthova Street. Since the beginning of the 20th century, the street has been the cultural and business heart of the city. Visitors must not miss the world’s bigger flower clock with a diameter of 22 m. The favourite meeting spot of the inhabitants is the area around the monument of the Cossack named Rog.

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