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Zaporizhzhia has 770,000 inhabitants (2004).

It is an important industrial center of Ukraine, particularly a home for:

• famous hydroelectric power plant earlier known as "DnieproGES";
• ZAZ, the country's main car manufacturing company;
• "Motor-Sitch" design-bureau and production company, the world-famous airplane engine manufacturer.

History

The Khortytsia Island in the middle of modern Zaporizhzhia was one of the historic locations for the Zaporiz'ka Sitch - the main fortress/ capital of the Viys'ko Zaporiz'ke Cossack republicModern republics A republic is a form of government (and a state so governed) where the head of state is not a monarch. Many times people interchangebly use republic and democracy to refer the same. the truth is that in a country where the governmental st.