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Zaporizhzhya

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Zaporizhzhya , Rus. Zaporozhye, city (1989 pop. 884,000), capital of Zaporizhzhya region, in Ukraine, a port on the Dnieper River, opposite the island of Khortytsya. The city, founded in 1770 on the site of the Zaporizhzhya Cossack camp, consists of old Zaporizhzhya (called Aleksandrovsk before 1921) and the new industrial Zaporizhzhya, which developed during the 1930s and adjoins the Dniprohes installations and the port of Lenin. It is a major rail junction and industrial center and the site of the Dniprohes dam and power station, one of the country's largest hydroelectric plants. Large... Read more
Zaporizhzhya
Zaporizhzhya (Ukrainian, ‘Beyond the Rapids’) City...movement, settled the area in the 16th century. In 1770, Zaporizhzhya was founded as a fortress, and in 1775 the Russian...became a town, known as Aleksandrovsk until 1921. Zaporizhzhya consists of the old city and the new industrial area... Read more
Zaporizhzhya
...ensure government control over the Zaporizhzhya Cossacks , whose headquarters were...World War II but was later rebuilt. Zaporizhzhya has a major iron and steel plant; automobiles are also manufactured. Zaporizhzhya Zaporizhzhya Zaporizhzhya Read more

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