Monastyrskyi Island

Monastyrskyi Island (Ukrainian: Монастирський острів) is an island within the boundaries of the Sobornyi district of the Ukrainian city of Dnipro near the right bank of the Dnipro river.

Monastyrskyi Island
Native name:
Монастирський острів
Monastyrskyi Island with a church and steep cliffs
Geography
LocationDnieper River
Area0.4 km2 (0.15 sq mi)
Highest pointN/A
Administration
Ukraine
Dnipro
Demographics
Population0

It is covered with granite rocks to the west which gradually turns into a sandy spit in the east of the island.

Part of the island belongs to the Taras Shevchenko city park. The island is connected to the city by a pedestrian bridge in its northern part.

History

The island got its name in the ninth century because of an unconfirmed belief that in that century Byzantine monks founded a monastery on the island, which in 1240 was destroyed by the Mongol-Tatars.[1]

In 1747 Ukrainian Cossacks did build a monastery on the island.[1]

In 1958 a monument to Taras Shevchenko was installed on the island.[2] There is also a memorial cross to the Byzantine monks, erected in 1994.[3]

In 1999 an Orthodox church of St. Nicholas was built on the northern part of the island.[1]

From 17 October 1929 until 24 November 2015 the island was officially named Komsomolsky Island (Ukrainian: Комсомольський острів), after the Komsomol political youth organization of the Soviet Union.[4][1][nb 1] It was renamed to its current name in order to comply with decommunization law.[4]

Archeology

In 1961 there were found several scraps and sharpener of ancient Stone Age by archaeologists.[6]

Notes
  1. Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union from 1920 until Ukraine declared its independence from the Soviet Union on 24 August 1991.[5]

References
  1. Monastyrsky (Komsomolsky) island. Historical background, Dmytro Yavornytskyi National Historical Museum (in Ukrainian)
  2. "В Днепропетровске есть подземное царство и "захоронен" Сталин?". kp.ua (in Russian). Retrieved 2019-07-07.
  3. "Памятный крест византийским монахам в Днепропетровске. Парковый комплекс имени Т. Г. Шевченко. - Путеводитель по Днепропетровcкой области". tourdnepr.com (in Russian). Retrieved 2019-07-07.
  4. In Dnipropetrovsk, 57 place names were "decommunized" - streets, island and subway, Ukrayinska Pravda (24 November 2015) (in Ukrainian)
  5. A History of Ukraine: The Land and Its Peoples by Paul Robert Magocsi, University of Toronto Press, 2010, ISBN 1442610212 (page 563/564 & 722/723)
  6. "Исследование памятников палеолита на территории Приднепровья (Study of Paleolithic monuments on the territory of the Dnieper region)". Dmytro Yavornytskyi National Historical Museum (in Russian). 2018-06-12. Archived from the original on 2018-06-12. Retrieved 2019-07-07.

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