Zaporizhzhia
- This article is about a city in south-eastern Ukraine. For other uses of the term "Zaporizhzhia", see Zaporizhzhia (disambiguation).
Zaporizhia (Ukrainian: Запоріжжя, 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.
Zaporizhia 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 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.