 However the site had been badly chosen - spring waters transformed the city into a bog.The settlement there was later renamed Novomoskovsk (today Novomoskovsk, Ukraine).On 22 January 1784 Catherine the Great signed an Imperial Ukase stating the following, "the gubernatorial city under name of Yekaterinoslav to be by better convenience on the right bank of Dnieper near Kaidak" ("губернскому городу под названием Екатеринослав быть по лучшей удобности на правой стороне реки Днепр у Кайдака…").