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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 33. Chapters: Sevastopol, Dnipropetrovsk, Closed city, Norilsk, Sarov, Baltiysk, Seversk, Novouralsk, Sillamae, Dikson, Paldiski, Zheleznogorsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Polyarny, Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Fokino, Primorsky Krai, Dudinka, Baikonur, Bolshoy Kamen, Shikhany, Zelenogorsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Vidyayevo, Vilyuchinsk, Mirny, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Lesnoy, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Severomorsk, Uglegorsk, Amur Oblast, Gadzhiyevo, Krasnoznamensk, Moscow Oblast, Priozersk, Kazakhstan, Snezhnogorsk, Murmansk Oblast, Zarechny, Penza Oblast, Znamensk, Astrakhan Oblast, Agdam Rayon, Zaozyorsk, Ostrovnoy, Murmansk Oblast, Naukograd, Atomgrad, Mezhgorye, Republic of Bashkortostan, Raduzhny, Vladimir Oblast, Snezhinsk, Tryokhgorny, Voskhod, Russia, Molodyozhny, Moscow Oblast. Excerpt: Dnipropetrovsk (Ukrainian: ) or Dnepropetrovsk (Russian: ) formerly Yekaterinoslav (Russian: , Ukrainian: , translit. Katerynoslav, also Catharinoslav on old maps) is Ukraine's third largest city with one million inhabitants. It is located southeast of Ukraine's capital Kiev on the Dnieper River, in the south-central region of the country. Dnipropetrovsk is the administrative center of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (province). Within the Dnipropetrovsk Metropolitan area there are 1,860,000 people (2001). A vital industrial center of Ukraine, Dnipropetrovsk was one of the key centers of the nuclear, arms, and space industries of the former Soviet Union. In particular, it is home to Yuzhmash, a major space and ballistic missile designer and manufacturer. Because of its military industry, the city was a closed city until the 1990s. Dnipropetrovsk has a highly-developed public transportation system, including the Dnipropetrovsk Metro, which consists of one metro line with a total of 6 stations. In 1918 Yekaterinoslav was renamed Sicheslav by the Ukrainian People's Republi...