 There was a wave of anti-Semitic attacks.From 1902 to 1933, the historian of the Zaporozhian Cossacks, Dmytro Yavornytsky, was Director of the Dnipro Museum, which was later named after him.Before his death in 1940, Yavornytsky wrote a "History of the City of Ekaterinoslav", which lay in manuscript for many years.