Monastyrskyi Island
Monastyrskyi Island is an island within the boundaries of the Sobornyi district of the Ukrainian city of Dnipro near the right bank of the Dnipro river.
It is covered with granite rocks to the west which gradually turns into a sandy spit in the east of the island.
Part of the island belongs to the Taras Shevchenko city park. The island is connected to the city by a pedestrian bridge in its northern part.History
The island got its name in the ninth century because of an unconfirmed belief that in that century Byzantine monks founded a monastery on the island, which in 1240 was destroyed by the Mongol-Tatars.
In 1747 Ukrainian Cossacks did build a monastery on the island.
In 1958 a monument to Taras Shevchenko was installed on the island. There is also a memorial cross to the Byzantine monks, erected in 1994.
In 1999 an Orthodox church of St. Nicholas was built on the northern part of the island.
From 17 October 1929 until 24 November 2015 the island was officially named Komsomolsky Island, after the Komsomol political youth organization of the Soviet Union. It was renamed to its current name in order to comply with decommunization law.Archeology
In 1961 there were found several scraps and sharpener of ancient Stone Age by archaeologists.
