The Battle of the Dnieper was a military campaign that took place in 1943 in Ukraine on the Eastern Front of World War II.One of the largest operations of the war, it involved almost 4,000,000 troops at a time stretched on a 1,400 kilometres (870 mi) front. Over four months, the eastern bank of the Dnieper was recovered from German forces by five of the Red Army's …

The Dnieper–Donets culture (ca. 5th—4th millennium BC) was a Mesolithic and later Neolithic culture which flourished north of the Black Sea ca. 5000-4200 BC. ... Villeneuve-Saint-Germain), the Roucadour culture in Southwest France and the river and lake areas of …

El Dnieper es importante para el transporte en Ucrania y por tanto para la economía de Ucrania: Sus embalses cuentan con grandes esclusas para barcos, que permiten que buques de hasta 270 x 18 m accedan hasta el puerto de Kiev, por lo que son un importante corredor de transporte. El río es utilizado también por barcos de pasajeros.