Zaporozhskaya oblast

Zaporozhye region - industrial area in south- eastern Ukraine. Founded in 1939. after isolation of the territory of the Dnipropetrovsk region. On the south by the Sea of ​​Azov. Incorporates a port of Berdyansk . Previously lived in these lands the tribes of the Scythians, Pechenegs , Khazars , Huns, Polovtsy.

Here, in the late XV century, the Cossacks. Khortytsya island became a center of Ukrainian statehood and up do1775 , when Russian troops destroyed the Sich .

After the destruction of the Cossack freemen of the land became a part of different provinces.

In the first half of the XIX century went on a forced settlement of the region : here come the German colonists , Jews , Bulgarians and the sectarians , the Doukhobors , Molokans and the dissenters in Russia. Backbone of the economy for a long time was agriculture. Industrial development in the region began with the beginning of the XIX century. with the emergence of factories for processing agricultural raw materials .A new stage in history began with the initiation of Zaporozhye DnieproGES , start-up which took place in August 1932 in the mid -1930s . were put most of the enterprises of Zaporizhzhya industrial complex.

Today Zaporozhye region - one of the most developed industrial regions of Ukraine .In the Zaporozhye region the structure of industry leading place electric power, metallurgy, machine building and metalworking.

Here is Zaporozhstal, which is the only company in Ukraine for the production of rolled products of stainless and alloy steels, high-efficiency cold-formed sections , canned tin, sheet steel with polymer coating , DSS and Zaporizhia Ferroalloy Plant .

There's the flagship of the country's automotive industry SP AutoZAZ -Daewoo, established on the basis of Zaporozhye Automobile Plant AvtoZAZ .

in the region is located at: National Park Khortytsya in Zaporozhye State Historical Archaeological Preserve Stone Grave in the Melitopol district , and others.

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