DNEPROPETROVSK, formerly Ekaterinoslav, a town in a county of the same name, in the Ukrainian S.S.R. It is situated on the right bank of the Dnieper river above the rapids in 48° 21' N. and 35° 4' E. alt. 210 ft. 1927 under American direc tion, the construction of a ferro-concrete dam, with sluices and docks allowing ships to pass, and turbines for generating elec tricity was commenced. The proximity of manganese, nitre, coal and iron deposits to the station, and of the Zaporozhny aluminium industry is a great commercial asset. Pressure on the railway system will be relieved by the opening of river transport for wheat, timber, coal, iron and other heavy products. The town has iron-smelting, and metal industries employing more than 5o,000 men, and there are also breweries, flour-mills and other smaller industries. In 1895 it became the centre of numerous Franco-Belgian industrial enterprises, and its population has increased from 18,88i in 186i to 187,357 in 1926. It is a trading centre for the agricultural products of the district. On the site of the present city there formerly stood the Polish castle of Koindak, built in 1635, but it was destroyed by the Cossacks. Potemkin founded the city in 1786, and Catherine II. in 1787 laid the foundation stone of its cathedral, which however, was not built until 183o-5. Paul I. changed the name of the city to Novo Rossiysk, but its original name was restored in 1802. The oldest part of the city lies very low and is subject to floods. The civic buildino iriclude a mining academy, an archaeological museum and a library.