Kropyvnytskyi

Kropyvnytskyi, a city on the Inhul River in central Ukraine, is known for its café and restaurant scene and a downtown that retains 19th- and early 20th-century architecture — enough that locals have long called it "a little Paris." The city has a layered history: founded around a mid-18th-century fortress, it opened the first professional Ukrainian theatre in 1882 under Marko Kropyvnytskyi, whose name the city now bears following a 2016 decommunization renaming.

• Population219,676
• Nearest water from center 0.5 km0.3 mi