Zaporozhye

American  

[zah-puh-rawzh-yuh, zuh-puh-raw-zhye] / ˌzɑ pəˈrɔʒ yə, zə pʌˈrɔ ʒyɛ /

noun

1. the Russian name of Zaporizhzhia.

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Zaporozhye British  

/ zəpaˈrɔʒjɛ /

noun

1. Former name (until 1921): Aleksandrovsk.  a city in E Ukraine on the Dnieper River: developed as a major industrial centre after the construction (1932) of the Dnieper hydroelectric station. Pop: 798 000 (2005 est)

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Example Sentences

Eleven Ukrainians - one group from Dnipro and another from Zaporozhye near Mariupol - returned with him to Ballindooley Castle.

From Reuters

Bison Group owns 40,000 hectares of arable land in Zaporozhye region and exports much of its harvest via Berdyansk.

From Reuters

But for the southeastern Zaporozhye region, home to 1.8 million people, it is critical.

From Reuters

Leonid Zhabotinsky, a record-breaking Ukrainian-born Soviet weight lifter who picked up Olympic gold medals in 1964 and 1968 and was Arnold Schwarzenegger’s teenage idol, died on Thursday in Zaporozhye, Ukraine.

From New York Times

On Tuesday, a strategic railroad bridge was blown up in Zaporozhye region, far from the front lines, halting at least temporarily shipments of iron ore to steel mills in the port city of Mariupol.

From New York Times