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Zaporizhzhya

Zaporizhzhya (known as Alexandrovsk before 1921), the administrative centre of Zaporozhye region with a population of about 1 million, was founded in 1770 as a fortress on the banks of the Dnepr river. The name of the city is associated with Ukrainian Cossacks lived on the Khortitsa island the capital of Zaporozhian Sech. At present the Zaporizhzhya is large industrial, scientific and cultural city in Ukraine. There are the Music and Drama Theatre, the Puppet Theatre, the Museum of the Zaporozhian Cossacks History in Zaporizhzhya.