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Zaporizhia (, ''Zaporizhzhia''; , ''Zaporozh'ye'') is a City in south-eastern Ukraine and the capital of Zaporizhia Oblast . It lies some 70 km from the Dnipropetrovsk city and is located on the banks of the Dnieper River . It was originally named ''Alexandrovsk'', after the commander of the first Russian Army, Prince Alexander Golitsyn , but was renamed in 1921 to Zaporizhzhia. It is currently the sixth largest city in the Ukraine and has a population of 900,000 (2004). ]] Zaporizhzhia is an important industrial center of Ukraine, particularly a home for:
The city was very much an 'engineering city' during Soviet times, with all the consequences in terms of pollution that might be expected. The move to market economy since independence of Ukraine has seen the demise of some of these concerns which has certainly improved the air quality. Although not a particularly attractive city, Dnieper River cruise ships make it one of their scheduled stops in order to visit Khortytsia Island. HISTORY The city's Khortytsia Island which is facing modern Zaporizhia across the Dnieper River, 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 . During the World War II years, the city was the location of prisoner-of-war camps. |