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Zaporozhye – the city of metallurgists, machine builders and powermen with the population about one million people. The contemporary name the city received from the obdurate rapids of Dnepr. Zaporozhye has the enormous economic potential – more than 280 industrial enterprises, among which the major part belongs to machine building, metallurgy and metal working, chemical and petrochemical industries.

The pride of the city is the island Chortytsia – the largest island on the Dnepr. In the 16th century here located Sech. Zaporozhskaya Sech was the center of the Ukrainian Cossacks during the 16th -17th centuries and played the significant role in the history of Ukraine. In the northern part of the island there is the museum of the history of Zaporozhye Cossacks. From that point opens the wonderful view on Dnepr hydropower station and some small rapids. Dnepr power station and the dam are the visit card of the city. The radius of the bending of the dam is 600 m, the height – 50 m.

In the settlement Upper Chortytsia there is the famous 700 years old oak. The diameter of the stem of the tree is 6 m 32 cm, the height – 36 m. According to the legend this is the very oak, near which the Cossacks wrote the letter to the Turkish Sultan. This event was reflected on the picture by Illia Repin. Near the island there are situated the places, which are associated with different legends – these are two Snake caves.

One of them is drowned; the other one is situated in the northern part of Chortytsia. It is mentioned by the historian Herodot. He notes, that in The Snake cave lived the ancient Greek hero Heracles with the goddess Api, the daughter of Borisphen. The Snake cave on Chortytsia Island saved perfectly. It is the grotto with the height of 12 m, where can walk only one man. It is situated in the rock cleft on the height of 4 m above the water level. People say that there were kept the treasures in the cave, but they were ransacked in the 19th century.

The engineering and cultural sights of the city are two double-decked concrete bridges over the Dnepr, which connect the right and left banks of Zaporozhye through the Chortytsia Island. The altitude of the bridges (54 m) is considered to be the largest in Ukraine.

The other engineering sight of Zaporozhye is the longest Ukrainian children railway. Its extent is 9,4 km. The main street of the city – Lenin Avenue – is one of the longest streets in Ukraine and Europe. Its length is 10,8 km.
The national colour and the historical places of Zaporozhye attract film directors from times of USSR. In Zaporozhye took place the film shootings of the famous soviet and modern films: “The Spring on the Zarechnaia Street” (1956), “The only one” (1975), “Taras Bulba” (2009).