Zaporizhzhya is the main land of Ukrainian Cossacks, it attracts tourists with two main sights: it is the island of Khortytsia, where the Zaporizhzhya Cossacks lived in the 16th century, and DneproHES is a huge dam, a kind of "visiting card" of the city.
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How to get here
Railway station Zaporozhye-1 (Lenin Square, 2) is located on the south-eastern end of the avenue. Here, trains come from Kiev (90 hryvnia, 10 hours), Kharkov (80 hryvnia, 4, 5 hours), Lviv (150 hryvnia, 20 hours), Odessa (100 hryvnia, 17 hours) and Simferopol (80 hryvnia, 5 hours) . Many of them just make a stop, going further to Dnepropetrovsk (25-35 hryvnia, 2, 5 hours). However, it is easier to get to it on the routes (15-20 hryvnia, 1, 5 hours, departure every 15 minutes) from the bus station on Sq. Lenin near the dam.
The bus station (Lenina avenue, 20) is located near the railway station. From there, Autolux buses run to Kiev (100 hryvnia, 9, 5 hours). Flights from Simferopol, Odessa (12 hours) and cities of Eastern and Southern Ukraine also stop here. Tickets can be bought at the ticket office of the bus station or in the lobby of the hotel "Intourist".
Climate
The climate of Zaporozhye is moderately continental, arid, with 225 sunny days per year. The coldest month is January (-3 ... -6 ° C), hot in July (+18 ... + 22 ° C).
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Overcast, light rain +5 ° С in the afternoon -2 ° C at night ° С water |
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Transport
Most of the trolleybuses and minibuses pass through .Lenin between the railway stations Zaporozhye-1 and pl .Lenin, for example, trolleybus № 3 .To reach the island of Khortytsya and the Cossacks Museum, you can also go to them, then walk along the DneproGES wall, keeping to the left, and turn again to the left to the island's north bridge (in the amount of about 5 km) .Or take the bus number 50, which goes to ul .Victory (parallel to Lenin Avenue, along the river) and crosses the southern Preobrazhensky Bridge, which leads to the island of Khortytsya .From there to the Museum is much closer .In addition, you can take a taxi, the train from the center to Khortitsa will cost 30-35 hryvnia .
Entertainment, excursions and attractions of Zaporozhye
The main attraction of Zaporizhzhia is the largest island of Khortytsia on the Dnieper, which, of course, is famous not for its size, but for its history. It was here in the 16th century that one of the Zaporozhye Sich was located. However, today the ruins of the Sich itself are not found, but on the nearby island of Malaya Khortitsa there was a tree-earth town of Dmitry "Baidy" of Vishnevetsky, which is considered to be the prototype of Sichy.
In the north of Khortytsya there is a picturesque panorama of the Dnieper Hydropower Station dam and several rocks, one of which has round grooves in which, according to legend, the Cossacks prepared dumplings. Now there are nine inhabited settlements on the island, in which about two thousand people live. But the island itself, and the surrounding rocks and islets are considered a National Reserve.
Zaporozhye oak
The famous Zaporozhye oak-giant is located in the village of Upper Khortytsya, the diameter of its crown was once 63 meters, and the circumference of the trunk is 6 meters 32 centimeters. Today, the tree is almost withered: already in the 1990s, it had few living shoots, today there is one living branch altogether. The remaining dry branches of the oak are supported by metal masts. Tradition says that it was under this oak that the Cossacks wrote their famous letter to the Turkish sultan.
Museums
The National Reserve "Khortytsya" sheltered, perhaps, the most interesting museum in the city - the Museum of History of Zaporozhye Cossacks. It is also worth a visit in the Regional Museum of Local History and Art, the private museum of the history of weapons, the Museum of Old Automotive and Military Equipment. Photo of Zaporozhye (16)