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Zaporizhia (Ukrainian: ЗапоріжжÑ?, Zaporizhzhia; Russian: Запорожье, Zaporozh'ye) is a city in south-eastern Ukraine, the capital of Zaporizhia Oblast. It lies on the banks of the Dnieper river. It was originally named Alexandrovsk, after the commander of the first Russian Army, Prince Alexander Golitsyn.
Zaporizhia has 900,000 inhabitants (2004).
It is an important industrial center of Ukraine, particularly a home for:
famous hydroelectric power plant known as "DnieproGES";
ZAZ, the country's main car manufacturing company;
"Motor-Sitch" design-bureau and production company, the world-famous airplane engine manufacturer.
The Khortytsia Island in the middle of modern Zaporizhia was one of the historic locations for the Zaporizhian Sich - the main fortress capital of the Cossack state (the Zaporozhian Host) and the Cossack Hetmanate republic.
Zaporizhia has 900,000 inhabitants (2004).
It is an important industrial center of Ukraine, particularly a home for:
famous hydroelectric power plant known as "DnieproGES";
ZAZ, the country's main car manufacturing company;
"Motor-Sitch" design-bureau and production company, the world-famous airplane engine manufacturer.
The Khortytsia Island in the middle of modern Zaporizhia was one of the historic locations for the Zaporizhian Sich - the main fortress capital of the Cossack state (the Zaporozhian Host) and the Cossack Hetmanate republic.
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