Economy
Dnipropetrovsk is a major industrial centre of Ukraine. It has several facilities devoted to heavy industry that produce a wide range of products, including cast-iron, rolled metal, pipes, machinery, different mining combines, agricultural equipment, tractors, trolleybuses, refrigerators, different chemicals and many others. The most famous and the oldest (founded in the 19th century) is the Metallurgic Plant named after Petrovsky. The city also has big food processing and light industry factories. Many sewing and dress-making factories work for France, Canada, Germany and Great Britain, using the most advanced technologies, materials and design. Dnipropetrovsk has also dominated in the aerospace industry since the 1950s; construction department Yuzhnoye Design Bureau and Yuzhmash are well known to the specialists all over the world.
Dniproavia, an airline, has its head office on the grounds of Dnipropetrovsk International Airport.
| Year | Factories & Plants |
Employees | Production Volume | Reference | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| rubles | 2007 £ million |
2007 USD million |
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| 1880 | 49 | 572 | 1,500,000 | £10.5 m | $21 m | |
| 1903 | 194 | 10,649 | 21,500,000 | £177.5 m | $355 m | |
| Year | Enterprises | Earnings | Reference | ||
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| rubles | 2007 £ million |
2007 USD million |
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| 1900 | 1,800 | 40,000,000 | £328.7 m | $658 m | |
| 1940 | 622 | 1,096,929,000 | £2,120.3 m | $4,242 m | |
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