Pidhorodnie

Pidhorodnie, formerly Pidhorodne, is a city in Dnipro Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Pidhorodne urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: In 2001, the population was 17,763.
The populated place is known since 1600 as a "wintering place" of Cossacks from Samar and carried a name Bohorodytski Khutory.
Soon after the liquidation of the Zaporozhian Sich, in 1778 those hamlets were united into a "state military sloboda" of Pidhorodne being located near the newly established Yekaterinoslav.
On 12 October 2024, the National Commission of the State Language added Pidhorodne to the list of populated places that should be renamed as part of derussification. To comply with the norms of the Ukrainian language, the city was renamed to Pidhorodnie on 18 June 2025.

Demographics

As of the 2001 Ukrainian census, the Pidhorodnie had a population of 17,778 inhabitants. In terms of ethnicities, almost 92% of the population are ethnic Ukrainians, followed by a sizeable minority of people, who claimed to have a Russian background and a number of smaller ethnic minorities. The exact ethnic and linguistic composition of the settlement was as follows: