Zaporizhzhia
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- This article is about a city in south-eastern Ukraine. For other uses of the term "Zaporizhzhia", see Zaporizhzhia (disambiguation).
Zaporizhzhia (Ukrainian: Запоріжжя, Russian: Запорожье, Zaporozh'ye) is a city in south-eastern Ukraine, the capital of Zaporiz'ka oblast'. It lies on the banks of the Dnieper river.
Zaporizhzhia has 770,000 inhabitants (2004).
It is an important industrial center of Ukraine, particularly a home for:
- famous hydroelectric power plant earlier known as "DnieproGES";
- ZAZ, the country's main car manufacturing company;
- "Motor-Sitch" design-bureau and production company, the world-famous airplane engine manufacturer.
History
The Khortytsia Island in the middle of modern Zaporizhzhia was one of the historic locations for the Zaporiz'ka Sitch – the main fortress/capital of the Viys'ko Zaporiz'ke Cossack republic.
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