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Zaporizhzhia

Zaporizhzhia[3][note 1] (Ukrainian: Запоріжжя, IPA: [zɐpoˈriʒʲːɐ] (listen)) or Zaporozhye (Russian: Запорожье, IPA: [zəpɐˈroʐje] (listen)), until 1921 known as Aleksandrovsk or Oleksandrivsk,[note 2] is a city in southeast Ukraine, situated on the banks of the Dnieper River. It is the administrative centre of Zaporizhzhia Oblast.[4] Zaporizhzhia has a population of 710,052 (2022 est.).[5]

Zaporizhzhia
Запоріжжя
City
Ukrainian transcription(s)
 • NationalZaporizhzhia
 • ALA-LCZaporiz͡hz͡hi͡a
 • BGN/PCGNZaporizhzhya
 • ScholarlyZaporižžja
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Zaporizhzhia
Zaporizhzhia
Coordinates: 47°51′00″N 35°07′03″E / 47.85000°N 35.11750°E / 47.85000; 35.11750Coordinates: 47°51′00″N 35°07′03″E / 47.85000°N 35.11750°E / 47.85000; 35.11750
Country Ukraine
Oblast Zaporizhzhia Oblast
RaionZaporizhzhia Raion
HromadaZaporizhzhia urban hromada
Founded1770
City rights1806
Raions
7
Government
 • MayorAnatolii Kurtiev (acting Mayor since 30 September 2021)[1]
Area
 • Total334 km2 (129 sq mi)
Population
 (2022)
 • Total710,052
 • Density1,365.2/km2 (3,536/sq mi)
 • 2001[2]
817,900
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code
69xxx
Area code+380 61(2)
ClimateDfa

Zaporizhzhia is known for the historic island of Khortytsia, multiple power stations and for being an important industrial centre. Steel, aluminium, aircraft engines, automobiles, transformers for substations, and other heavy industrial goods are produced in the region.

Names and etymology

The name Zaporizhzhia refers to the position of the city: "beyond the rapids"—downstream or south of the Dnieper Rapids. These were previously an impediment to navigation and the site of important portages. In 1932, the rapids were flooded to become part of the reservoir of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station.[6]

Before 1921, the city was called Aleksandrovsk (or Oleksandrivsk), named after the original fortress that formed a part of the Dnieper Defence Line [ru] of the Russian Empire.

History

Zaporizhzhia was founded in 1770, when the Aleksandrovskaya (Александровская) Fortress was built as a part of the Dnieper Defence Line, to protect the southern territories of the Russian Empire from Crimean Tatar invasions.[7] Following the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca in 1775, the southern lands of the Russian Plain and the Crimean peninsula were absorbed into the Russian Empire. The Aleksandrovskaya Fortress then lost its military significance, and became a small rural town, which from 1806 to around 1930 was called Alexandrovsk.[6]

The opening of the Kichkas Bridge at the start of 20th century, the first rail crossing of the Dnieper, was followed the industrial growth of Zaporizhzhia .[8] In 1916, during World War I, the DEKA Stock Association transferred its aircraft engine manufacturing plant from Saint Petersburg to Zaporizhzhia.[9]

During the Russian Civil War (1918–1921), Zaporizhzhia was the scene of fierce fighting between the Red Army and the White armies of Denikin and Wrangel, Petliura's Ukrainian People's Army of the Ukrainian People's Republic, and German-Austrian troops. The opposing armies used the strategically important Kichkas Bridge to transfer troops, ammunition, and medical supplies. The Soviet government industrialized Zaporizhzhia still further during the 1920s and 1930s, when the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station, and the Zaporizhzhia Steel Plant, and the Dnieper Aluminium Plant were built.[10][11][12][13] In the 1930s, the American United Engineering and Foundry Company built a strip mill similar to the Ford River Rouge steel mill to produce rolling steel strip. The annual capacity of the mill reached 540,000 tonnes (600,000 short tons) of 170 cm (66 inches) wide steel.[14]

World War II (1941–1945)

 
A Red Army soldier near the Dnieper hydro-electric dam

After the outbreak of the War between the USSR and Nazi Germany in June 1941, the Soviet government began evacuating Zaporizhzhia's industries to Siberia.[15] and the Soviet security forces began shooting political prisoners in the city.[16] On 18 August 1941, elements of the German 1st Panzergruppe reached the outskirts of Zaporizhzhia on the right bank and seized the island of Khortytsia.[17]

The Red Army blew a 120 by 10 metres (394 ft × 33 ft) hole in the Dnieper hydroelectric dam on 18 August 1941, producing a flood wave that swept from Zaporizhzhia to Nikopol.[15] The flood killed local residents as well as soldiers from both armies, with historians estimating the death toll to be between 20,000 and 100,000.[18] Despite reinforcements, Zaporizhzhia was taken on 3 October 1941.[19] The German occupation lasted two years; during which the Germans shot over 35,000 people and sent 58,000 people to Germany as forced labourers.[15]

The Germans reformed Army Group South in February 1943, and put its headquarters in Zaporizhzhia.[20] Adolf Hitler visited the headquarters in February1943, and again the following month, where he was briefed by Field Marshal Eric von Manstein and his air force counterpart Field Marshal Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen, and in September 1943,[21] the month the Army Group moved its headquarters to Kirovograd).[22]

In August 1943, the Germans built the Panther-Wotan defence line along the Dnieper from Kyiv to Crimea. They retreated back to this line in September 1943, holding the city as a bridgehead over the Dnieper with elements of 40th Panzer and 17th Corps.[23] The Soviet Southwestern Front, commanded by Army General Rodion Malinovsky, attacked Zaporizhzhia on 10 October 1943.[23] The defenders repelled these attacks, but the Red Army launched a surprise night attack on 13 October, which succeeded in reclaiming most parts of the city.[24]

1991–present

 
Modern Zaporizhzhia (2015)

In 2004, to alleviate congestion around the Zaporizhzhia Arch Bridge area, construction began on the New Zaporizhzhia Dniper Bridge, although construction was halted soon after it began, due to a lack of funding.[25]

During the 2014 Euromaidan regional state administration occupations, during protests against President Viktor Yanukovych,[26] Zaporizhzhia's regional state administration building was occupied by 4,500 protesters,[27] and there were clashes between Ukrainian and pro-Russian activists in April 2014.[28]

On 19 May 2016, the Verkhovna Rada approved the "Decommunisation Law".[29] Since the introduction of the law, the city council renamed over 50 streets and administrative areas of the city,[note 3] monuments of the Soviet Union leaders Lenin and Felix Dzerzhinsky have been destroyed,[30][31] and names honouring Soviet leaders in the titles of industrial plants, factories, culture centres, and the DniproHES have been removed.[32]

Russian invasion (2022)

 
Residential buildings in Zaporizhzhia after Russian missile strikes on 22 March 2023

Russian forces have been engaged in ongoing attacks on Zaporizhzhia since the beginning of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. On 27 February, fighting was reported in the southern outskirts,[33] and Russian forces began shelling the city later that evening.[34] On 3 March, Russian forces approached the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, raising concerns about a potential nuclear meltdown.[35][36] Russian military forces fired missiles on Zaporizhzhia on the evening of 12/13 May.[37]

On 30 September, hours before Russia formally annexed Southern and Eastern Ukraine, the Russian Armed Forces launched S-300 missiles at a civilian convoy in Zaporizhzhia, killing at least 30 people.[38] On 9 October, Russian forces launched rockets at residential buildings, killing at least 17 people.[39]

Geography

Zaporizhzhia is located in south-eastern Ukraine. The Dnieper splits the city in two; between them is Khortytsia Island. The city covers 334 km2 (129 sq mi) at an elevation of 50 m (160 ft) above sea level.[40] The New and Old Dnieper flow past around Khortytsia: The New Dnieper [uk] is about 800 m (2,600 feet) wide while the Old Dnieper [uk] is about 200 m (660 feet) wide. The island has 12 km × 2 km (7.5 mi × 1.2 mi) sizes. Smaller rivers in the city also enter the Dnieper: Sukha [uk] and Mokra Moskovka [uk], Kushuhum [uk], and Verkhnia Khortytsia [uk].

The flora of Khortytsia is unique and diverse, due to the dry steppe air and a large freshwater basin, which cleans the air polluted by industry. The island is a national park. The ground surface is cut by large ravines ("balka"), hiking routes and historical monuments. The island, which is a popular recreational area, has sanatoriums, resorts, health centres, and sandy beaches.[41]

Climate

Climate data for Zaporizhzhia (1991–2020, extremes 1959–present)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Record high °C (°F) 12.2
(54.0)
17.1
(62.8)
24.0
(75.2)
31.4
(88.5)
35.9
(96.6)
36.5
(97.7)
39.5
(103.1)
40.2
(104.4)
35.9
(96.6)
35.0
(95.0)
20.9
(69.6)
16.0
(60.8)
40.2
(104.4)
Average high °C (°F) −0.3
(31.5)
1.2
(34.2)
7.5
(45.5)
16.1
(61.0)
22.6
(72.7)
26.6
(79.9)
29.3
(84.7)
29.0
(84.2)
22.7
(72.9)
14.7
(58.5)
6.5
(43.7)
1.3
(34.3)
14.8
(58.6)
Daily mean °C (°F) −3.1
(26.4)
−2.2
(28.0)
3.0
(37.4)
10.5
(50.9)
16.7
(62.1)
20.9
(69.6)
23.2
(73.8)
22.6
(72.7)
16.7
(62.1)
9.7
(49.5)
3.1
(37.6)
−1.3
(29.7)
10.0
(50.0)
Average low °C (°F) −5.8
(21.6)
−5.3
(22.5)
−0.9
(30.4)
5.0
(41.0)
10.9
(51.6)
15.2
(59.4)
17.1
(62.8)
16.4
(61.5)
11.3
(52.3)
5.5
(41.9)
0.2
(32.4)
−3.8
(25.2)
5.5
(41.9)
Record low °C (°F) −29.3
(−20.7)
−26.1
(−15.0)
−25
(−13)
−8.2
(17.2)
−2
(28)
3.9
(39.0)
8.2
(46.8)
3.9
(39.0)
−3
(27)
−8.9
(16.0)
−18.6
(−1.5)
−26.2
(−15.2)
−29.3
(−20.7)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 39
(1.5)
32
(1.3)
37
(1.5)
41
(1.6)
51
(2.0)
61
(2.4)
45
(1.8)
44
(1.7)
38
(1.5)
34
(1.3)
40
(1.6)
53
(2.1)
515
(20.3)
Average extreme snow depth cm (inches) 7
(2.8)
8
(3.1)
4
(1.6)
0
(0)
0
(0)
0
(0)
0
(0)
0
(0)
0
(0)
0
(0)
1
(0.4)
3
(1.2)
8
(3.1)
Average rainy days 10 8 11 12 13 13 10 8 10 11 13 11 130
Average snowy days 14 14 9 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 6 13 58
Average relative humidity (%) 85.2 82.4 77.6 67.2 63.1 66.0 63.6 62.1 68.5 75.5 84.3 86.1 73.5
Source 1: Pogoda.ru.net[42]
Source 2: World Meteorological Organization (humidity 1981–2010)[43]

Governance

Zaporizhzhia is the main city of Zaporizhzhia Oblast with a form of self-rule within the oblast. The city is divided into 7 administrative raions.


The population of the districts of the city of Zaporizhia as of November 1 2015:[44]

Raion Population Percent of Total
1 Oleksandrivsky 68,666 9.06
2 Zavodsky 50,750 6.7
3 Komunarsky 133,752 17.64
4 Dniprovsky 135,934 17.95
5 Voznesenivsky 101,349 13.37
6 Khortytsky 115,641 15.27
7 Shevchenkivsky 151,558 20.0

    Demographics

    City population

     
    People in Zaporizhzhia in 1990
     
    People in Zaporizhzhia in 2018

    The city population has been declining since the first years of the state independence. In 2014–2015 the rate of the population decrease was −0.56%/year.[45]

    In January 2017, the population was 750,685.[46] The total reduction of the population of the city since independence has been around 146,000 (not including 2017–2018).

    Year Population Source
    1781 329 [9]
    1795 1,230 [9]
    1804 2,500 [9]
    1824 1,716 [47]
    1859 3,100 [47]
    1861 3,819 [9][48]
    1864 4,354 [47]
    1870 4,601 [49]
    1885 6,707 [50]
    1894 16,100 [51]
    1897 16,393 [52]
    year Population Source
    1900 24,196 [53]
    1902 35,000 [47]
    1910 38,000 [54]
    1913 63,000 [9]
    1915 about 60,000 [47]
    1916 72,900 [9]
    1917 58,517 [55]
    1926 55,744 [56][57]
    1937 243,148 [57]
    1939 289,188 [58][59]
    1943 120,000 [58][60]
    year Population Source
    1956 381,000 [54]
    1959 449,000 [59]
    1970 658,000 [61]
    1971 676,000 [59]
    1979 781,000 [62]
    1989 897,600 [63]
    1991 896,600 [64]
    2001 815,300 [2]
    2010 776,918 [65]
    2011 775,678 [66]
    2015 757,650 [67]
    2017 750,685 [68]

    Ethnic structure

    According to the 2001 census,[69] 70.28% of the population of Zaporizhzhia (total population 815,300) were Ukrainians, 25.39% were Russians, 0.67% were Belorussians, 0.44% were Bulgarians, 0.42% were Jews, 0.38% were Georgians, 0.38% were Armenians, 0.27% were Tatar, 0.15% were Azeris, 0.11% were Roma (Gypsies), 0.1% were Poles, 0.09% were Germans, 0.09% were Moldovans, and 0.07% were Greeks.

    Language

    Ukrainian is used for official government business. The native language of people living in Zaporizhzhia, according to censuses in Ukraine (by percent):

    Language 1897[70] 1926[71] 1989[72] 2001[73]
    Ukrainian  43.0  33.8  41.3  41.6
    Russian  24.8  52.2  57.0  56.8
    Yiddish  27.8  9.7  0.1

    Religion

    The following religious denominations are present in Zaporizhzhia:[74]

    Christianity
    Orthodoxy
     
    Holy Protection Cathedral

    Most of the citizens are Orthodox Christians of Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) or Orthodox Church of Ukraine. Among the Orthodox churches the Church of the Intercession [uk], which is under the Moscow Patriarchate, is most popular. There are also St. Nicholas Church and St. Andrew's Cathedral in the city.

    Protestantism

    Protestantism is represented by:

    Catholicism

    Catholicism is represented by:

    The biggest Catholic church is Church of God, the Father of Mercy

    Judaism

    Orthodox Judaism is represented by one union and six communities.

    Islam

    In the Zaporizhzhia district there are five communities which are part of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Ukraine and four independent Muslim communities.

    Hinduism

    The city hosts a branch of the Vedic Academy.

    Economy

    Industry

     
    Industry and river port

    Zaporizhzhia is an important industrial centre of Ukraine, the country's main car manufacturing company, the Motor-Sich world-famous aircraft engine manufacturer. Well supplied with electricity, Zaporizhzhia forms, together with the adjoining Donets Basin (Donbas) and the Nikopol manganese and Kryvyi Rih iron mines, one of Ukraine's leading industrial complexes.

    The city is a home of Ukraine's main automobile production centre, which is based at the Zaporizhzhia Automobile Factory (ZAZ), producing Ukrainian car brands such as Zaporozhets and Tavria.

    After the end of the Russian Revolution, the city became an important industrial centre. The presence of cheap labor and the proximity of deposits of coal, iron ore, and manganese created favorable conditions for large-scale enterprises of the iron and mechanical engineering industries. Today Zaporizhzhia is an important industrial centre of the region with heavy industry (particularly metallurgy), aluminium, and chemical industry. Cars, avia motors and radioelectronics are manufactured in the city. The port of Zaporizhzhia is important for transshipment for goods from the Donbas.

    Zaporizhstal, Ukraine's fourth largest steel maker, and ranking 54th in the world, is based in the city.

    Electricity generation

    Zaporizhzhia is a large electricity generating hub. There are hydroelectric power plant known as "DniproHES" Dnieper Hydroelectric Station and the largest nuclear power plant in Europe. Prior to the 2022 invasion, the plants generated about 25% of the Ukrainian electricity supply. Located near the Enerhodar and about 60 km (37 miles) from Zaporizhzhia is the Zaporizhzhia Thermal Power Station and the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, the largest nuclear power plant in Europe.

    Culture

     
    Magara Academic Drama Theatre

    Zaporizhzhia has an orchestra, museums, theatres, and libraries. These include the Magara Academic Drama Theatre, the Municipal Theatre Lab "VIE", the Theatre for Young-Age spectators, the Theatre of Horse Riding "Zaporizhzhian Cossacks", the Zaporizhzhia Regional Museum, the National Museum of the History of the Zaporizhzhian Cossacks, the Zaporizhzhia Regional Art Museum, the Motor Sich Aviation Museum, and the Zaporizhzhia Region Universal Scientific Library.

    There are a number of small amateur groups of folk music bands, art galleries in Zaporizhzhia. The city regularly holds festivals, Cossack martial arts competitions, and art exhibitions.

    Zaporizhzhia has an open-air exhibition-and-sale of Zaporizhzhia city association of artists «Kolorit» near the 'Fountain of Life' at the Mayakovskoho square [uk]. A daily exhibition of artists' organizations of the city is a unique place in Zaporizhzhia, where people can meet craftsmen and artists, watch carving, embroidery, beading classes, and receive advice from professional artists and designers.

    Main sights

     
    'Fountain of Life' in Zaporizhzhia (built in 2004) with the daily exhibition of Zaporizhzhian artists.

    The historical and cultural museum "Zaporizka Sich" is placed on the northern rocky part of Khotritsa Island. The museum is a reconstruction of the stronghold of the Zaporizhzhian Cossacks, and contains features of the military camp life and their lifestyle.

    Each of the smaller islands are located between the dam and the island Khortytsia has its own legend. On one of them, Durnya Scala ("Rock of the Fool"), Tzar Peter the Great flogged the Cossacks for their betrayal the Russians during the Great Northern War between Russia and Sweden. Another small island, Stolb ("Pillar"), has a geological feature, which looks like a large bowl in granite slabs, the Cossack's Bowl. It is said that in summer days, water can be boiled in this "bowl", and the Cossacks used it for cooking galushki (boiled dough in a spicy broth).[76]

    Transport links

    Zaporizhzhia is an important transportation hub in Ukraine that includes roads, as well as rail, river and air links for passenger and freight transport. Zaporizhzhia International Airport, located to the east of the city on the left-bank of the Dnieper, serves domestic and international flights. Shyroke Airfield is to the west of the city on the right-bank of the Dnieper.

    Zaporizhzhia is bypassed beyond its eastern outskirts by a major national highway M18, which connects Kharkiv with Simferopol. The H08, which starts just outside Kyiv and travels southeast along the Dnieper through Kremenchuk, Kamianske, Dnipro, passes through Zaporizhzhia on to Mariupol. The H15 from Donetsk and the H23 [de] from Kropyvnytskyi via Kryvyi Rih, both end in Zaporizhzhia.

    There are four road bridges and two rail bridges over the Dnieper, nearly all of which bridges cross Khortytsia Island. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy opened the first stage of the New Zaporizhzhia Dniper Bridge early in 2022.

    The city has two rail stations, Zaporizhzhia-1 Railway Station and Zaporizhzhia-the-Second. The First is the central station, located in the southern part of the city and is a part of Simferopol-Kharkiv, the "north-south" transit route. The line of the Zaporizhzhia-the-Second station connects the Donbas coalfield with Kryvyi Rih. The city has an extensive tram network with 7 lines called the Zaporizhzhia Tram.

    The city's two river ports are part of the national water transportation infrastructure that connects Kyiv to Kherson along the Dnieper. Freight ships and cutter boats travel between Zaporizhzhia and nearby villages. The island of Khortytsia splits the Dnieper into two; the main channel passes the island on its eastern side, with the Staryi Dnipro (Old Dnieper) flowing past the island on the western side.

    Notable people

     

    Sport

     

    In popular culture

    Zaporizhzhia is a setting in two Axis victory in World War II short novels by the American author Harry Turtledove, Ready for the Fatherland (1991) and The Phantom Tolbukhin (1998).

    Twin towns – sister cities

    Zaporizhzhia is twinned with:[77][78]

    In 1969, the city renamed one of its streets after the city of Wrocław. The Wrocław authorities reciprocated, and a part of the Sudecka – Grabiszyńska Street towards the Square of the Silesian Insurgents was renamed Zaporoska Street.[79]

    See also

    Notes

    1. ^ Also spelled as Zaporizhzhya or Zaporizhia
    2. ^ Russian: Александровск; Ukrainian: Олександрівськ
    3. ^ Since modern Zaporizhiazhia was greatly enlarged in the Soviet Union, many typography in the city had to be renamed. In the year of the fall of the Russian Empire (1917), the population of Alexandrovsk was about 60,000 people. In the year of Ukraine's declaration of independence (1991), the city's population reached almost 1 million people.

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    3. ^ "Про затвердження транслітерації написання географічної назви міста Запоріжжя латиницею. Рішення виконавчого комітету №476". Zaporizhzhia city council. Executive committee. 28 August 2017.
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    21. ^ Lost Victories, by Field Marshal Eric von Manstein, pdf version p290-2.
    22. ^ Lost Victories, by Field Marshal Eric von Manstein, says that the Germans finished repairing the railway bridge only a few months before they lost the city in October 1943.
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    External links

    • Official portal of Zaporizhzhia City (in Ukrainian)
    • One of the portals of Zaporizhzhia City (in Russian)
    • Another one of the portals of Zaporizhzhia City (in Russian)
    • Zaporizhzhia seven ways to adventure
    • One of the few external reports on the city in English is the BBC report "Ukraine: Why the Orange Revolution ran out of steam", Daniel Sandford, Moscow correspondent, BBC News 10 March 2011.

    zaporizhzhia, other, uses, disambiguation, note, ukrainian, Запоріжжя, zɐpoˈriʒʲːɐ, listen, zaporozhye, russian, Запорожье, zəpɐˈroʐje, listen, until, 1921, known, aleksandrovsk, oleksandrivsk, note, city, southeast, ukraine, situated, banks, dnieper, river, a. For other uses see Zaporizhzhia disambiguation Zaporizhzhia 3 note 1 Ukrainian Zaporizhzhya IPA zɐpoˈriʒʲːɐ listen or Zaporozhye Russian Zaporozhe IPA zepɐˈroʐje listen until 1921 known as Aleksandrovsk or Oleksandrivsk note 2 is a city in southeast Ukraine situated on the banks of the Dnieper River It is the administrative centre of Zaporizhzhia Oblast 4 Zaporizhzhia has a population of 710 052 2022 est 5 Zaporizhzhia ZaporizhzhyaCityUkrainian transcription s NationalZaporizhzhia ALA LCZaporiz hz hi a BGN PCGNZaporizhzhya ScholarlyZaporizzjaFrom top to bottom and left to right Sobornyi Avenue Zaporozka Sich Historical Cultural Complex uk ru Zaporizhzhia Musical and Drama Theatre uk ru Festival Square uk ru and the Zaporizhzhia Oblast Administrative Council Dnieper Hydroelectric Station Zaporizhzhia International Airport Slavutych Arena Stadium Zaporizhzhia 1 railway stationFlagCoat of armsZaporizhzhiaShow map of Zaporizhzhia OblastZaporizhzhiaShow map of UkraineCoordinates 47 51 00 N 35 07 03 E 47 85000 N 35 11750 E 47 85000 35 11750 Coordinates 47 51 00 N 35 07 03 E 47 85000 N 35 11750 E 47 85000 35 11750Country UkraineOblast Zaporizhzhia OblastRaionZaporizhzhia RaionHromadaZaporizhzhia urban hromadaFounded1770City rights1806Raions7 Zavodskyi DistrictKhortytskyi DistrictKomunarskyi DistrictDniprovskyi DistrictOleksandrivskyi DistrictVoznesenskyi DistrictShevchenkivskyi DistrictGovernment MayorAnatolii Kurtiev acting Mayor since 30 September 2021 1 Area Total334 km2 129 sq mi Population 2022 Total710 052 Density1 365 2 km2 3 536 sq mi 2001 2 817 900Time zoneUTC 2 EET Summer DST UTC 3 EEST Postal code69xxxArea code 380 61 2 ClimateDfaZaporizhzhia is known for the historic island of Khortytsia multiple power stations and for being an important industrial centre Steel aluminium aircraft engines automobiles transformers for substations and other heavy industrial goods are produced in the region Contents 1 Names and etymology 2 History 2 1 World War II 1941 1945 2 2 1991 present 2 2 1 Russian invasion 2022 3 Geography 3 1 Climate 4 Governance 5 Demographics 5 1 City population 5 2 Ethnic structure 5 3 Language 5 4 Religion 6 Economy 6 1 Industry 6 2 Electricity generation 7 Culture 8 Main sights 9 Transport links 10 Notable people 10 1 Sport 11 In popular culture 12 Twin towns sister cities 13 See also 14 Notes 15 References 15 1 Sources 16 External linksNames and etymologyThe name Zaporizhzhia refers to the position of the city beyond the rapids downstream or south of the Dnieper Rapids These were previously an impediment to navigation and the site of important portages In 1932 the rapids were flooded to become part of the reservoir of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station 6 Before 1921 the city was called Aleksandrovsk or Oleksandrivsk named after the original fortress that formed a part of the Dnieper Defence Line ru of the Russian Empire HistoryMain article History of Zaporizhzhia Zaporizhzhia was founded in 1770 when the Aleksandrovskaya Aleksandrovskaya Fortress was built as a part of the Dnieper Defence Line to protect the southern territories of the Russian Empire from Crimean Tatar invasions 7 Following the Treaty of Kucuk Kaynarca in 1775 the southern lands of the Russian Plain and the Crimean peninsula were absorbed into the Russian Empire The Aleksandrovskaya Fortress then lost its military significance and became a small rural town which from 1806 to around 1930 was called Alexandrovsk 6 The opening of the Kichkas Bridge at the start of 20th century the first rail crossing of the Dnieper was followed the industrial growth of Zaporizhzhia 8 In 1916 during World War I the DEKA Stock Association transferred its aircraft engine manufacturing plant from Saint Petersburg to Zaporizhzhia 9 During the Russian Civil War 1918 1921 Zaporizhzhia was the scene of fierce fighting between the Red Army and the White armies of Denikin and Wrangel Petliura s Ukrainian People s Army of the Ukrainian People s Republic and German Austrian troops The opposing armies used the strategically important Kichkas Bridge to transfer troops ammunition and medical supplies The Soviet government industrialized Zaporizhzhia still further during the 1920s and 1930s when the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station and the Zaporizhzhia Steel Plant and the Dnieper Aluminium Plant were built 10 11 12 13 In the 1930s the American United Engineering and Foundry Company built a strip mill similar to the Ford River Rouge steel mill to produce rolling steel strip The annual capacity of the mill reached 540 000 tonnes 600 000 short tons of 170 cm 66 inches wide steel 14 World War II 1941 1945 A Red Army soldier near the Dnieper hydro electric dam After the outbreak of the War between the USSR and Nazi Germany in June 1941 the Soviet government began evacuating Zaporizhzhia s industries to Siberia 15 and the Soviet security forces began shooting political prisoners in the city 16 On 18 August 1941 elements of the German 1st Panzergruppe reached the outskirts of Zaporizhzhia on the right bank and seized the island of Khortytsia 17 The Red Army blew a 120 by 10 metres 394 ft 33 ft hole in the Dnieper hydroelectric dam on 18 August 1941 producing a flood wave that swept from Zaporizhzhia to Nikopol 15 The flood killed local residents as well as soldiers from both armies with historians estimating the death toll to be between 20 000 and 100 000 18 Despite reinforcements Zaporizhzhia was taken on 3 October 1941 19 The German occupation lasted two years during which the Germans shot over 35 000 people and sent 58 000 people to Germany as forced labourers 15 The Germans reformed Army Group South in February 1943 and put its headquarters in Zaporizhzhia 20 Adolf Hitler visited the headquarters in February1943 and again the following month where he was briefed by Field Marshal Eric von Manstein and his air force counterpart Field Marshal Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen and in September 1943 21 the month the Army Group moved its headquarters to Kirovograd 22 In August 1943 the Germans built the Panther Wotan defence line along the Dnieper from Kyiv to Crimea They retreated back to this line in September 1943 holding the city as a bridgehead over the Dnieper with elements of 40th Panzer and 17th Corps 23 The Soviet Southwestern Front commanded by Army General Rodion Malinovsky attacked Zaporizhzhia on 10 October 1943 23 The defenders repelled these attacks but the Red Army launched a surprise night attack on 13 October which succeeded in reclaiming most parts of the city 24 1991 present Modern Zaporizhzhia 2015 In 2004 to alleviate congestion around the Zaporizhzhia Arch Bridge area construction began on the New Zaporizhzhia Dniper Bridge although construction was halted soon after it began due to a lack of funding 25 During the 2014 Euromaidan regional state administration occupations during protests against President Viktor Yanukovych 26 Zaporizhzhia s regional state administration building was occupied by 4 500 protesters 27 and there were clashes between Ukrainian and pro Russian activists in April 2014 28 On 19 May 2016 the Verkhovna Rada approved the Decommunisation Law 29 Since the introduction of the law the city council renamed over 50 streets and administrative areas of the city note 3 monuments of the Soviet Union leaders Lenin and Felix Dzerzhinsky have been destroyed 30 31 and names honouring Soviet leaders in the titles of industrial plants factories culture centres and the DniproHES have been removed 32 Russian invasion 2022 Further information 2022 bombing of Zaporizhzhia Residential buildings in Zaporizhzhia after Russian missile strikes on 22 March 2023 Russian forces have been engaged in ongoing attacks on Zaporizhzhia since the beginning of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine On 27 February fighting was reported in the southern outskirts 33 and Russian forces began shelling the city later that evening 34 On 3 March Russian forces approached the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant raising concerns about a potential nuclear meltdown 35 36 Russian military forces fired missiles on Zaporizhzhia on the evening of 12 13 May 37 On 30 September hours before Russia formally annexed Southern and Eastern Ukraine the Russian Armed Forces launched S 300 missiles at a civilian convoy in Zaporizhzhia killing at least 30 people 38 On 9 October Russian forces launched rockets at residential buildings killing at least 17 people 39 GeographyZaporizhzhia is located in south eastern Ukraine The Dnieper splits the city in two between them is Khortytsia Island The city covers 334 km2 129 sq mi at an elevation of 50 m 160 ft above sea level 40 The New and Old Dnieper flow past around Khortytsia The New Dnieper uk is about 800 m 2 600 feet wide while the Old Dnieper uk is about 200 m 660 feet wide The island has 12 km 2 km 7 5 mi 1 2 mi sizes Smaller rivers in the city also enter the Dnieper Sukha uk and Mokra Moskovka uk Kushuhum uk and Verkhnia Khortytsia uk The flora of Khortytsia is unique and diverse due to the dry steppe air and a large freshwater basin which cleans the air polluted by industry The island is a national park The ground surface is cut by large ravines balka hiking routes and historical monuments The island which is a popular recreational area has sanatoriums resorts health centres and sandy beaches 41 Climate Climate data for Zaporizhzhia 1991 2020 extremes 1959 present Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec YearRecord high C F 12 2 54 0 17 1 62 8 24 0 75 2 31 4 88 5 35 9 96 6 36 5 97 7 39 5 103 1 40 2 104 4 35 9 96 6 35 0 95 0 20 9 69 6 16 0 60 8 40 2 104 4 Average high C F 0 3 31 5 1 2 34 2 7 5 45 5 16 1 61 0 22 6 72 7 26 6 79 9 29 3 84 7 29 0 84 2 22 7 72 9 14 7 58 5 6 5 43 7 1 3 34 3 14 8 58 6 Daily mean C F 3 1 26 4 2 2 28 0 3 0 37 4 10 5 50 9 16 7 62 1 20 9 69 6 23 2 73 8 22 6 72 7 16 7 62 1 9 7 49 5 3 1 37 6 1 3 29 7 10 0 50 0 Average low C F 5 8 21 6 5 3 22 5 0 9 30 4 5 0 41 0 10 9 51 6 15 2 59 4 17 1 62 8 16 4 61 5 11 3 52 3 5 5 41 9 0 2 32 4 3 8 25 2 5 5 41 9 Record low C F 29 3 20 7 26 1 15 0 25 13 8 2 17 2 2 28 3 9 39 0 8 2 46 8 3 9 39 0 3 27 8 9 16 0 18 6 1 5 26 2 15 2 29 3 20 7 Average precipitation mm inches 39 1 5 32 1 3 37 1 5 41 1 6 51 2 0 61 2 4 45 1 8 44 1 7 38 1 5 34 1 3 40 1 6 53 2 1 515 20 3 Average extreme snow depth cm inches 7 2 8 8 3 1 4 1 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 4 3 1 2 8 3 1 Average rainy days 10 8 11 12 13 13 10 8 10 11 13 11 130Average snowy days 14 14 9 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 6 13 58Average relative humidity 85 2 82 4 77 6 67 2 63 1 66 0 63 6 62 1 68 5 75 5 84 3 86 1 73 5Source 1 Pogoda ru net 42 Source 2 World Meteorological Organization humidity 1981 2010 43 GovernanceSee also List of mayors of Zaporizhzhia Zaporizhzhia is the main city of Zaporizhzhia Oblast with a form of self rule within the oblast The city is divided into 7 administrative raions The population of the districts of the city of Zaporizhia as of November 1 2015 44 Raion Population Percent of Total1 Oleksandrivsky 68 666 9 062 Zavodsky 50 750 6 73 Komunarsky 133 752 17 644 Dniprovsky 135 934 17 955 Voznesenivsky 101 349 13 376 Khortytsky 115 641 15 277 Shevchenkivsky 151 558 20 0DemographicsCity population People in Zaporizhzhia in 1990 People in Zaporizhzhia in 2018 The city population has been declining since the first years of the state independence In 2014 2015 the rate of the population decrease was 0 56 year 45 In January 2017 the population was 750 685 46 The total reduction of the population of the city since independence has been around 146 000 not including 2017 2018 Year Population Source1781 329 9 1795 1 230 9 1804 2 500 9 1824 1 716 47 1859 3 100 47 1861 3 819 9 48 1864 4 354 47 1870 4 601 49 1885 6 707 50 1894 16 100 51 1897 16 393 52 year Population Source1900 24 196 53 1902 35 000 47 1910 38 000 54 1913 63 000 9 1915 about 60 000 47 1916 72 900 9 1917 58 517 55 1926 55 744 56 57 1937 243 148 57 1939 289 188 58 59 1943 120 000 58 60 year Population Source1956 381 000 54 1959 449 000 59 1970 658 000 61 1971 676 000 59 1979 781 000 62 1989 897 600 63 1991 896 600 64 2001 815 300 2 2010 776 918 65 2011 775 678 66 2015 757 650 67 2017 750 685 68 Ethnic structure According to the 2001 census 69 70 28 of the population of Zaporizhzhia total population 815 300 were Ukrainians 25 39 were Russians 0 67 were Belorussians 0 44 were Bulgarians 0 42 were Jews 0 38 were Georgians 0 38 were Armenians 0 27 were Tatar 0 15 were Azeris 0 11 were Roma Gypsies 0 1 were Poles 0 09 were Germans 0 09 were Moldovans and 0 07 were Greeks Language Ukrainian is used for official government business The native language of people living in Zaporizhzhia according to censuses in Ukraine by percent Language 1897 70 1926 71 1989 72 2001 73 Ukrainian 43 0 33 8 41 3 41 6Russian 24 8 52 2 57 0 56 8Yiddish 27 8 9 7 0 1Religion The following religious denominations are present in Zaporizhzhia 74 ChristianityOrthodoxy Holy Protection Cathedral Most of the citizens are Orthodox Christians of Ukrainian Orthodox Church Moscow Patriarchate or Orthodox Church of Ukraine Among the Orthodox churches the Church of the Intercession uk which is under the Moscow Patriarchate is most popular There are also St Nicholas Church and St Andrew s Cathedral in the city ProtestantismProtestantism is represented by All Ukrainian Union of Christians of Evangelical Faith Seventh day Adventist Church Full Gospel Church CatholicismCatholicism is represented by Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church The Roman Catholic Church 75 The biggest Catholic church is Church of God the Father of Mercy JudaismOrthodox Judaism is represented by one union and six communities IslamIn the Zaporizhzhia district there are five communities which are part of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Ukraine and four independent Muslim communities HinduismThe city hosts a branch of the Vedic Academy EconomyThis section does not cite any sources Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed April 2013 Learn how and when to remove this template message Industry Industry and river port Zaporizhzhia is an important industrial centre of Ukraine the country s main car manufacturing company the Motor Sich world famous aircraft engine manufacturer Well supplied with electricity Zaporizhzhia forms together with the adjoining Donets Basin Donbas and the Nikopol manganese and Kryvyi Rih iron mines one of Ukraine s leading industrial complexes The city is a home of Ukraine s main automobile production centre which is based at the Zaporizhzhia Automobile Factory ZAZ producing Ukrainian car brands such as Zaporozhets and Tavria After the end of the Russian Revolution the city became an important industrial centre The presence of cheap labor and the proximity of deposits of coal iron ore and manganese created favorable conditions for large scale enterprises of the iron and mechanical engineering industries Today Zaporizhzhia is an important industrial centre of the region with heavy industry particularly metallurgy aluminium and chemical industry Cars avia motors and radioelectronics are manufactured in the city The port of Zaporizhzhia is important for transshipment for goods from the Donbas Zaporizhstal Ukraine s fourth largest steel maker and ranking 54th in the world is based in the city Electricity generation Zaporizhzhia is a large electricity generating hub There are hydroelectric power plant known as DniproHES Dnieper Hydroelectric Station and the largest nuclear power plant in Europe Prior to the 2022 invasion the plants generated about 25 of the Ukrainian electricity supply Located near the Enerhodar and about 60 km 37 miles from Zaporizhzhia is the Zaporizhzhia Thermal Power Station and the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant the largest nuclear power plant in Europe Culture Magara Academic Drama Theatre Zaporizhzhia has an orchestra museums theatres and libraries These include the Magara Academic Drama Theatre the Municipal Theatre Lab VIE the Theatre for Young Age spectators the Theatre of Horse Riding Zaporizhzhian Cossacks the Zaporizhzhia Regional Museum the National Museum of the History of the Zaporizhzhian Cossacks the Zaporizhzhia Regional Art Museum the Motor Sich Aviation Museum and the Zaporizhzhia Region Universal Scientific Library There are a number of small amateur groups of folk music bands art galleries in Zaporizhzhia The city regularly holds festivals Cossack martial arts competitions and art exhibitions Zaporizhzhia has an open air exhibition and sale of Zaporizhzhia city association of artists Kolorit near the Fountain of Life at the Mayakovskoho square uk A daily exhibition of artists organizations of the city is a unique place in Zaporizhzhia where people can meet craftsmen and artists watch carving embroidery beading classes and receive advice from professional artists and designers Main sights Khortytsya island Fountain of Life in Zaporizhzhia built in 2004 with the daily exhibition of Zaporizhzhian artists The historical and cultural museum Zaporizka Sich is placed on the northern rocky part of Khotritsa Island The museum is a reconstruction of the stronghold of the Zaporizhzhian Cossacks and contains features of the military camp life and their lifestyle Each of the smaller islands are located between the dam and the island Khortytsia has its own legend On one of them Durnya Scala Rock of the Fool Tzar Peter the Great flogged the Cossacks for their betrayal the Russians during the Great Northern War between Russia and Sweden Another small island Stolb Pillar has a geological feature which looks like a large bowl in granite slabs the Cossack s Bowl It is said that in summer days water can be boiled in this bowl and the Cossacks used it for cooking galushki boiled dough in a spicy broth 76 Transport links Zaporizhzhia International Airport in 2019 Zaporizhzhia is an important transportation hub in Ukraine that includes roads as well as rail river and air links for passenger and freight transport Zaporizhzhia International Airport located to the east of the city on the left bank of the Dnieper serves domestic and international flights Shyroke Airfield is to the west of the city on the right bank of the Dnieper Zaporizhzhia is bypassed beyond its eastern outskirts by a major national highway M18 which connects Kharkiv with Simferopol The H08 which starts just outside Kyiv and travels southeast along the Dnieper through Kremenchuk Kamianske Dnipro passes through Zaporizhzhia on to Mariupol The H15 from Donetsk and the H23 de from Kropyvnytskyi via Kryvyi Rih both end in Zaporizhzhia There are four road bridges and two rail bridges over the Dnieper nearly all of which bridges cross Khortytsia Island President Volodymyr Zelenskyy opened the first stage of the New Zaporizhzhia Dniper Bridge early in 2022 The city has two rail stations Zaporizhzhia 1 Railway Station and Zaporizhzhia the Second The First is the central station located in the southern part of the city and is a part of Simferopol Kharkiv the north south transit route The line of the Zaporizhzhia the Second station connects the Donbas coalfield with Kryvyi Rih The city has an extensive tram network with 7 lines called the Zaporizhzhia Tram The city s two river ports are part of the national water transportation infrastructure that connects Kyiv to Kherson along the Dnieper Freight ships and cutter boats travel between Zaporizhzhia and nearby villages The island of Khortytsia splits the Dnieper into two the main channel passes the island on its eastern side with the Staryi Dnipro Old Dnieper flowing past the island on the western side Notable people Valentyna Danishevska 2019 Alina Gorlova 2021 Valeriy Ivaschenko 2015 Gosha Kutsenko 2016 Maria Nikiforova 1909 Alyosha born 1986 Ukrainian singer stage name of Olena Oleksandrivna Kucher Vasiliy Bebko 1932 2022 Russian diplomat Tamara Bulat 1933 2004 Ukrainian American musicologist Victoria Bulitko born 1983 a Ukrainian film TV and theatre actress Evgeniy Chernyak born 1969 Ukrainian businessman Evgeniy Chuikov 1924 2000 Ukrainian landscape painter working in the Russian realist and French Impressionist traditions Volodymyr Dakhno 1932 2006 Ukrainian animator and animation film director Valentyna Danishevska born 1957 Ukrainian lawyer and judge Gerhard Ens 1863 1952 farmer immigration agent and politician in Saskatchewan Igor Fesunenko 1933 2016 Russian journalist and foreign affairs writer Sergey Glazyev born 1961 Russian politician and economist Alina Gorlova born 1992 a Ukrainian filmmaker director and screenwriter Konstantin Grigorishin born 1965 a Russian Ukrainian businessman and billionaire Volodymyr Horbulin born 1939 Ukrainian politician Valeriy Ivaschenko born 1956 Ukrainian former Deputy Minister of Defence Boris Ivchenko 1941 1990 Ukrainian actor and film director Igor P Kaidashev born 1969 Ukrainian immunologist and allergist Valeriy Kostyuk born 1940 Russian scientist Maxim Ksenzov born 1973 Russian statesman Valery Kulikov born 1956 Ukrainian born Russian politician Gosha Kutsenko born 1967 Russian actor producer singer poet and screenwriter Valentyn Nalyvaichenko born 1966 Ukrainian diplomat and politician Eva Neymann born 1974 Ukrainian film director Maria Nikiforova 1885 1919 revolutionary insurgent and Anarchist partisan leader Anna October born 1991 Ukrainian fashion designer Aleksandr Panayotov born 1984 Russian Ukrainian singer and songwriter Mykhailo Papiyev born 1960 Ukrainian engineer and politician Oleksandr Peklushenko 1954 2015 Ukrainian politician Max Polyakov born 1977 an international technology entrepreneur economist and philanthropist Georgy Shchokin born 1954 businessman sociologist psychologist and politician Boris Shtein 1892 1961 Soviet diplomat Oleksandr Sin born 1961 Ukrainian politician former mayor of Zaporizhzhia Serhiy Sobolyev born 1961 Ukrainian politician Yanina Sokolova born 1984 a journalist TV presenter and actress Naum Sorkin 1899 1980 a Soviet military officer and diplomat Oleksandr Starukh born 1973 Ukrainian historian and politician Liudmyla Suprun born 1965 a Ukrainian politician Yevhen Synelnykov born 1981 a Ukrainian TV presenter director and actor Estas Tonne born 1975 a musician plays guitar and flute Vladyslav Yama born 1982 a Ukrainian dancer and educatorSport Vita Styopina 2012 Denys Sylantyev 2014 Polina Astakhova 1936 2005 an artistic gymnast won ten medals at the 1956 1960 and 1964 Summer Olympics Anastasia Bliznyuk born 1994 a Russian group rhythmic gymnast Maksym Dolhov born 1996 Ukrainian diver Yan Kovalevskyi born 1993 Ukrainian footballer Tanja Logwin born 1974 Ukrainian born Austrian handball player Alina Maksymenko born 1991 Ukrainian rhythmic gymnast Oleksii Pashkov born 1981 silver medallist in the discus at the 2012 Summer Paralympics Volodymyr Polikarpenko born 1972 Ukrainian former trialthon athlete Yakiv Punkin 1921 1994 wrestler gold medallist at the 1952 Summer Olympics Oksana Skaldina born 1972 gymnast bronze medallist at the 1992 Summer Olympics Ganna Sorokina born 1976 diver team bronze medallist at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olga Strazheva born 1972 gymnast team gold medallist at the 1988 Summer Olympics Vita Styopina born 1976 high jumper bronze medallist at the 2004 Summer Olympics Denys Sylantyev born 1976 politician and swimmer four time Olympian silver medallist at the 2000 Summer Olympics and national flag bearer at the 2004 Summer Olympics Razmik Tonoyan born 1988 Ukrainian sambist a Soviet origin Russian martial art Roman Volod kov born 1973 Ukrainian former diver Sergiusz Wolczaniecki born 1964 a Polish weightlifter bronze medallist at the 1992 Summer Olympics Olena Zhupina born 1973 Ukrainian diverIn popular cultureZaporizhzhia is a setting in two Axis victory in World War II short novels by the American author Harry Turtledove Ready for the Fatherland 1991 and The Phantom Tolbukhin 1998 Twin towns sister citiesSee also List of twin towns and sister cities in UkraineZaporizhzhia is twinned with 77 78 Lahti Finland 1953 Belfort France 1967 Birmingham United Kingdom 1973 Linz Austria 1983 Oberhausen Germany 1986 Yichang China 1997 Magdeburg Germany 2008 Ashdod Israel 2011 Steinbach Canada 2018 In 1969 the city renamed one of its streets after the city of Wroclaw The Wroclaw authorities reciprocated and a part of the Sudecka Grabiszynska Street towards the Square of the Silesian Insurgents was renamed Zaporoska Street 79 See alsoZaporizhzhia Ferroalloy Plant Zaporizhzhia Foundry and Mechanical PlantNotes Also spelled as Zaporizhzhya or Zaporizhia Russian Aleksandrovsk Ukrainian Oleksandrivsk Since modern Zaporizhiazhia was greatly enlarged in the Soviet Union many typography in the city had to be renamed In the year of the fall of the Russian Empire 1917 the population of Alexandrovsk was about 60 000 people In the year of Ukraine s declaration of independence 1991 the city s population reached almost 1 million people References in Ukrainian The mayor of Zaporizhzhia was fired Ukrayinska Pravda 30 September 2021 a b The size and composition of the population of Zaporizhzhia region up to the Ukrainian population census 2001 Chislennost i sostav naseleniya Zaporozhskoj oblasti po itogam Vseukrainskoj perepisi naseleniya 2001 goda in Russian Pro zatverdzhennya transliteraciyi napisannya geografichnoyi nazvi mista Zaporizhzhya latiniceyu Rishennya vikonavchogo komitetu 476 Zaporizhzhia city council Executive committee 28 August 2017 in Ukrainian 1 Chiselnist nayavnogo naselennya Ukrayini na 1 sichnya 2022 Number of Present Population of Ukraine as of January 1 2022 PDF in Ukrainian and English Kyiv State Statistics Service of Ukraine a b Pospelov pp 25 26 Ya P Novickij Istoriya goroda Aleksandrovska Ekaterinoslavskoj gub v svyazi s istoriej vozniknoveniya krepostej Dneprovskoj linii 1770 1806 g Ekaterinoslav Tipografiya Gubernskogo Zemstva 1905 176 s in Russian The bridges of Zaporizhzhia Mosty Zaporozhya by L Adelberg Adelberg L pub RA Tandem st Zaporizhzhia 2005 in Russian a b c d e f g Official Portal Zaporizhzhia city authorities History Oficijnij portal Zaporizkoyi miskoyi vladi Istoriya mista Archived 21 January 2012 at the Wayback Machine accessed 11 April 2011 in Ukrainian Sovetskai a arkhitektura Iskusstvo 27 October 1969 via Google Books New world review p40 Meerovich M G Socgorod bazovoe ponyatie sovetskoj gradostroitelnoj teorii pervyh pyatiletok Archived 28 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine Istoriya Zaporozhya photoalbum zp ua The Soviet economy and the Red Army 1930 1945 by Walter Scott Dunn Greenwood Publishing Group 1995 ISBN 0 275 94893 5 page 13 a b c The Great Patriotic War on the territory of Zaporizhzhia Velikaya Otechestvennaya vojna na territorii Zaporozhya in Russian Germany and the Second World War Volume IV The Attack on the Soviet Union by Horst Boog Jurgen Forster Joachim Hoffmann Ernst Klink Rolf Dieter Muller Gerd R Ueberschar pub Clarendon Press 1998 ISBN 0 19 822886 4 p 909 The Eastern Front Timeline 1941 Archived from the original on 19 July 2011 Retrieved 18 April 2011 Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty Ukrainian Activists Draw Attention To Little Known WWII Tragedy by Dmytro Moroz and Claire Bigg 23 August 2013 Germany and the Second World War Volume IV The Attack on the Soviet Union p 607 says that Zaporizhzhia was captured on 1 October 1941 Lost Victories by Field Marshal Eric von Manstein translated by Anthony G Powell pdf version p267 270 Lost Victories by Field Marshal Eric von Manstein pdf version p290 2 Lost Victories by Field Marshal Eric von Manstein says that the Germans finished repairing the railway bridge only a few months before they lost the city in October 1943 a b The Eastern Front Timeline 1943 Archived from the original on 19 July 2011 Retrieved 18 April 2011 Moscow Stalingrad Berlin Prague Memories of Army Commander Moskva Stalingrad Berlin Praga Zapiski komandarma by Dmitri Danilovich Lelyushenko Lelyushenko Dmitro Danilovich pub Nauka Moscow 1987 chapter 4 Pochemu mosty stroyat po 14 let i chto govorit Ukravtodor Buckley Neil 26 January 2014 Ukraine protests spread to Yanukovich heartland Financial Times V Zaporozhe uchastniki Majdana opechatali kabinety rukovodstva Zaporozhskoj OGA Novosti UNIAN Ukrainian Independent Information Agency Retrieved 24 February 2014 Ukraine Tensions Escalate as Russia U S Exchange Barbs Archived 15 September 2014 at the Wayback Machine Poroshenko signed the laws about decommunization Ukrayinska Pravda 15 May 2015Poroshenko signs laws on denouncing Communist Nazi regimes Interfax Ukraine 15 May 20Goodbye Lenin Ukraine moves to ban communist symbols BBC News 14 April 2015 Vitaly Shevchenko 1 June 2016 In pictures Ukraine removes communist era symbols BBC News Polnyj perechen pereimenovannyh v Zaporozhe ulic in Ukrainian In Zaporizhzhia began to dekomunize DniproGES Radio Free Europe 4 April 2016 Svoboda Radio 27 February 2022 Tehnika rosiyan zajshla do Berdyanska v Zaporizhzhi zbroyu dayut usim gotovim zahishati oblasnij centr Radio Svoboda in Ukrainian Archived from the original on 27 February 2022 Retrieved 28 February 2022 Zhiteliv Zaporizhzhya prosyat ne pokidati ukrittya Obstrilyuyut aerodrom novini Zaporizhzhya www depo ua in Ukrainian Archived from the original on 27 February 2022 Retrieved 28 February 2022 Video analysis reveals Russian attack on Ukrainian nuclear plant veered near disaster NPR 11 March 2022 Retrieved 1 April 2022 Update 1 Ukraine nuclear power plant Zaporizhzhia on fire town mayor says Reuters 4 March 2022 Retrieved 7 March 2022 Invaders fire missiles on Zaporizhzhia Sumy region at night Ukraine war Survivors speak of horror as Zaporizhzhia convoy hit BBC News 30 September 2022 Retrieved 30 September 2022 At least 17 are killed in Zaporizhzhia The New York Times 9 October 2022 Archived from the original on 9 October 2022 Retrieved 9 October 2022 Pasport goroda Zaporozhe photoalbum zp ua The interactive map of island of Khortitsa Russian Archived from the original on 2 July 2011 Retrieved 2 July 2011 POGODA v Zaporozhe in Russian Pogoda i klimat Archived from the original on 13 December 2019 Retrieved 8 November 2021 Snow days have been taken to mean days on which it snowed not days with snow cover on the ground World Meteorological Organization Climate Normals for 1981 2010 World Meteorological Organization Archived from the original on 17 July 2021 Retrieved 18 July 2021 Golovne upravlinnya statistiki v Zaporizkij oblasti Chiselnist naselennya m Zaporizhzhya Archived 13 February 2019 at the Wayback Machine na 1 listopada 2015 roku Zaporizhzhia Population population city Derzhstat Ukrayini PDF Archived from the original PDF on 25 February 2022 Retrieved 4 July 2018 a b c d e Natalia Ostasheva Venger 2003 The Mennonite Industrial Dynasties in Alexandrovsk Journal of Mennonite Studies Vol V21 Dnepropetrovsk National University pp 89 110 Collection of scientific works of graduate students Zbirnik naukovih prac aspirantiv by T H Shevchenka pub Vyd vo Kyivsʹkoho University 1963 p87 gives the 1861 population as 3 729 in Ukrainian Ripley George Dana Charles A Charles Anderson 27 October 1879 The American cyclopaedia a popular dictionary of general knowledge Edited by George Ripley and Charles A Dana New York D Appleton via Internet Archive Brockhaus and Efron s Encyclopedia Enciklopedicheskij Slovar F A Brokgauza i I A Efrona edited by Professor IE Andreevskago and K Arseniev pub FA Brockhaus Leipzig and IA Efron St Petersburg 1890 1907 entry for Aleksandrovsk in Yekaterinoslavskaya province Aleksandrovsk uezdnyj gorod Ekaterinoslavskoj gubernii in Russian Universal Calendar for 1898 Vseobshij kalendar na 1898 god pub Hermann Hoppe St Petersburg 1898 p217 List of the populated areas of the Russian Empire Abakan Alekseevskoe Rospis naselyonnyh mestnostej Rossijskoj imperii Abakanskoe Alekseevskoe in Russian Large Encyclopedia Bolshaya Znciklopediya Volume I pub Prosveshechenie St Petersburg 1903 p323 pdf version in Russian Russian Calendar for 1906 Russkij kalendar na 1906 g pub A Suvorina St Petersburg 1906 p108 List of the populated areas of the Russian Empire Abbas Tuman Belev Spisok gorodov i drugih naselyonnyh punktov Rossijskoj imperii Abbas Tuman Belev in Russian a b Ukrainian SSR Ukrainskaya SSR pub Economic Institute of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences 1958 p87 Sergina V City Z 1921 199 film Year 1926 Sergina V Gorod Z 1921 1991 Nevydumannye istorii Istoricheski poznavatelnyj TV proekt dlya lyuboj zritelskoj auditorii K 2005 1 kompakt disk Film God 1926 Economic geography of the USSR by S S Balzak V F Vasyutin Ya G Feigin pub Macmillan 1956 a b Half a century classified as Secret All Union census in 1937 Polveka pod grifom sekretno Vsesoyuznaya perepis naseleniya 1937 goda Archived 25 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine by Valentina B Zhiromskaya I Kiselev Yu A Polyakov pub Nauka 1996 This gives the 1926 population as 55 295 DJV ZIP requires DjVu viewer software in Russian a b The emergency evacuation of cities a cross national historical and geographical study by Wilbur Zelinsky Leszek A Kosinski pub Rowman amp Littlefield 1991 ISBN 0 8476 7673 0 a b c The Great Soviet Encyclopedia Bolshaya Sovetskaya Enciklopediya entry for Zaporizhzhia Zaporizhzhia oblast centre Zaporozhe centr Zaporizkoyi obl 3rd edition pub 1969 to 1978 in Russian Sergina V City Z 1921 199 film Year 1942 Sergina V Gorod Z 1921 1991 Nevydumannye istorii Istoricheski poznavatelnyj TV proekt dlya lyuboj zritelskoj auditorii K 2005 1 kompakt disk Film God 1942 said the population for 1942 was 103 400 The Ukrainian quarterly Volumes 26 27 pub Ukrainian Congress Committee of America 1970 p223 The population of the USSR According to the Proc Census 1979 Naselenie SSSR Po dannym Vsesoyuznoj perepisi naseleniya 1979 g pub Politizdat Moscow 1980 table USSR the Soviet population in 1979 cities with a population of 100 thousand and more people SSSR naselenie SSSR na 1979 god Naselenie soyuznyh i avtonomnyh respublik in Russian www larousse fr encyclopedie L Encyclopedie en ligne entry for Zaporojie in French Rand McNally atlas of world geography pub Rand McNally Company 1996 p38 Population on 1 August 2010 Chiselnist naselennya na 1 serpnya 2010 roku press release No 1377 issued by the State Department of Statistics in the Zaporizhzhia oblast Derzhkomstat Golovne upravlinnya statistiki u Zaporizkij oblasti 16 September 2010 dead link in Ukrainian Population on 1 March 2011 Chiselnist naselennya na 1 bereznya 2011 roku press release No 1163 issued by the State Department of Statistics in the Zaporizhzhia oblast Derzhkomstat Golovne upravlinnya statistiki u Zaporizkij oblasti 18 April 2011 in Ukrainian 2 permanent dead link ChISELNIST NAYaVNOGO NASELENNYa UKRAYiNI PDF in Ukrainian 1 January 2017 Archived from the original PDF on 25 February 2022 Retrieved 4 July 2018 Lozovoj N 17 January 2011 Etnicheskie vojny ukrainskaya versiya Isteblishment Archived from the original on 15 August 2011 Demoskop Weekly Prilozhenie Spravochnik statisticheskikh pokazateleĭ Demoskop Weekly Prilozhenie Spravochnik statisticheskih pokazatelej Demoscope Weekly appendix Digest of statistical indicators www demoscope ru Retrieved 15 January 2021 Vsesoi uznai a perepisʹ naselenii a 1926 goda Vsesoyuznaya perepis naseleniya 1926 goda All union census of population 1926 Moscow Izdanie CSU Soyuza SSR 1928 29 Romant sov V O Naselennya Ukrayini i jogo ridna mova za chasiv radyanskoyi vladi ta nezalezhnosti Naselenni a Ukrainy i ĭoho ridna mova za chasiv radi ansʹkoi vlady ta nezalez hnosti The population of Ukraine and its native language in the periods of the Soviet regime and independence Archived from the original on 6 March 2016 Retrieved 15 January 2021 Vseukrainsʹkyĭ perepys naselenni a 2001 roku Rozpodil naselenni a za ridnoi u movoi u Zaporizʹka oblastʹ Vseukrayinskij perepis naselennya 2001 roku Rozpodil naselennya za ridnoyu movoyu Zaporizka oblast All Ukrainian census of population 2001 Distribution of population by native language Zaporizka oblast Archived from the original on 6 March 2016 Retrieved 1 June 2021 Religioznaya karta oblasti Ostrov Svobody in Russian Archived from the original on 17 June 2008 Retrieved 17 April 2011 Helena Krasowska The Polish Minority in South Eastern Ukraine pub Institute of Slavic Studies Polish Academy of Sciences 2017 ISBN 978 83 64031 65 6 p 50 52 Galina and Maxim Ostapenko History of our Khortytsia Galina i Maksim Ostapenko Istoriya nashej Horticy Archived 31 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine Goroda pobratimy zp gov ua in Russian Zaporizhia Retrieved 10 December 2022 Steinbach Becomes Twin City With Zaporizhia Retrieved 11 January 2020 Wroclaw ul Zaporoska Dolny Slask org pl Archived from the original on 29 September 2011 Retrieved 29 July 2011 Sources E M Pospelov Ye M Pospelov Imena gorodov vchera i segodnya 1917 1992 Toponimicheskij slovar City Names Yesterday and Today 1917 1992 Toponymic Dictionary Moskva Russkie slovari 1993 External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to Zaporizhzhia Look up Zaporizhia in Wiktionary the free dictionary Official portal of Zaporizhzhia City in Ukrainian One of the portals of Zaporizhzhia City in Russian Another one of the portals of Zaporizhzhia City in Russian Zaporizhzhia seven ways to adventure One of the few external reports on the city in English is the BBC report Ukraine Why the Orange Revolution ran out of steam Daniel Sandford Moscow correspondent BBC News 10 March 2011 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Zaporizhzhia amp oldid 1147703734, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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