The original team kept its professional status for 44 years since acquiring it in 1958 and reacquired it in 2003 after the short term disruption for the 2002/03 season.

As a "team of masters" Kolhospnyk (predecessor of Kolos sports society), the club was admitted to the Soviet Class B competitions in 1958.

[3] Such an unprecedented decision about inclusion of the Cherkasian football club in championship was connected with construction of the stadium, stands of which contained 27 sectors and capacity of 15,000 spectators.

[3] Already in 1959 Kolhospnyk inscribed in its history its first feat when it became a winner of the IV International games among rural teams of socialist countries that took place in Bulgaria.

However, in 1972 Dnipro was relegated to amateurs (republican competitions) where it was renamed to Hranyt and coached by former Dynamo player Vitaliy Khmelnytskyi in two seasons returned to the Second League.

[3] This corruption case reached to be dealt at a level of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine and feuilleton at the Muscovite newspaper "Pravda" under an eloquent title "Gild the leg".

[3] The archive documents show that on 15 September 1955 there were allocated 6 ha (15 acres) to local sports society "Kolhospnyk" in connection of building a local central stadium in place of Vodnyk and in two years the city authorities majestically opened a fine football arena of VSS "Kolhospnyk" with capacity of 15,000 spectators.

The game, with the score 3:1, was won by more experienced masters of the ball, the Kyivans.Traditionally the club colours are white, red and blue.

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