Zaporozhye

Zaporozhye (Ukrainian Zaporizhzhya, until 1921 Aleksandrovsk) is a city and community on the Dnieper River, the administrative center of the Zaporozhye region and the Zaporozhye region of Ukraine. It is one of the largest administrative, industrial and cultural centers of the south of Ukraine. Population - 722.7 thousand people. (2021). River port and important transit railway junction. The fourth largest industrial center of Ukraine with developed mechanical engineering, ferrous and non-ferrous metallurgy, chemical and construction industries. Numerous industrial enterprises pollute urban air.