Zaporizhzhya Sights

  1. Dniproges Dam

    Here's a quick quiz. What's missing from the following list? The Eiffel Tower, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Empire State Building, the Panama Canal, the Suez Canal, the Alaska Highway… Perhaps the Sydney Opera House? Nope. Try again. Apparently, until 2007, when the list was refreshed, the seventh declared wonder of the modern world was Zaporizhzhya's Dniproges Dam.

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  2. Historical Museum of Zaporizhsky Cossacks

    Visit the informative Historical Museum of Zaporizhsky Cossacks, which includes painted dioramas and various Cossack weaponry and bric-a-brac excavated from the island and nearby Baida Island. Also interesting are the photographs of the island surrounded by rapids before the dam was built.

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  3. Khortytsya Island

    The Zaporizhska Sich on Khortytsya Island was the most important cradle of Ukrainian Cossackdom, where hetman (leader) Dmytro Baida united disparate groups of Cossacks in the construction of a sich (fort) in 1553-54. At the height of its power the community numbered some 20,000 fighters, under the authority of one hetman. On the battlefield they were formidable opponents; off it formidable vodka drinkers.

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