[1] The chief of the editorial board in 1984, Mykola Volodymyrovych Lukiv [uk], became a well-known poet, lyricist, writer, and prizewinner of many Ukrainian and international literary awards.

[citation needed] The periodical published the works of O. Iranets (critique of In Search of the Castaways), Borys Oliynyk, Oksana Zabuzhko (Off-site poem etc.

), Max Kidruk (Class city narration), Moe pershe kuliove poranennia (My first bullet wound), Valeriy and Natalia Lapikury (detectives from the series Inspector i kava [Inspector and coffee]), Ihor Pavlyuk (Rezervatsiya [Reservation] novel), A. Kokotiukha [uk] critical article "Ukraina u poshukah detektyvu" (Ukraine in search of detectives), and fantasist Oleksiy Tymoshenko (Hudozhnyk [Artist] narration).

It was the first periodical to issue the narrative "Molodist" (Youth) by O. Boychenko [uk], the novel Narodzheni bureyu (Born of the Storm) by Nikolai Ostrovsky.

Dnipro printed the works of Ukrainian Soviet writers that were not published at the time of repression of the 20th–30th and stagnation at the end of the 60th – beginning of the 80th:[incomprehensible] narrative "Liubov and Kreshchatyk" (Love and Kreshchatyk) by Ivan Sanchenko, poetical tragicomedy "Zmova v Kyevi" (Plot in Kyiv) by Yevhen Pluzhnyk, play "Arkhitektor Shalko" (Architect Salko) by Yakiv Mamontov [uk], the poetry of Volodymyr Sosiura, Vasil Mysyk [uk], Borys Antonenko-Davydovych, Vasyl Stus, and diaries of Alexander Dovzhenko and Vasyl Symonenko.

Dnipro contains the investigations of Dmytro Yavornytsky about Ivan Sirko, articles by Symon Petliura, works "Vidrodzhennya natsii" (Renascence of Nation) by Volodymyr Vynnychenko, "Necropol’ Ukrainy" (Necropolis of Ukraine) and "Istoriya Rusiv" (History of the Rus) by Mikhail Kutynskyi [uk], "Avtobiographiya" (Autobiography) by Mykola Kostomarov, etc., and works of the writers of the Ukrainian diaspora.

The magazine includes the illustrations and reproductions from the works of such painters as I. Ostafiychuck, Ivan Marchuk, Andrey Antoniuk [uk], M. Dakhna, and Vasyl Lopata.

Published works also received the USSR state Shevchenko National Prize: novel "Chotyry brody" (Four fords) by V. Stelmakh, "ambilogy Lebedyna zgraya" (Swan bevy) and "Zeleni mlyny" (Green mills) by Vasil Zemliak).