page_title: Zaporizhia
section_title: Twin towns and sister cities
hierarchical_section_title: Zaporizhia / Twin towns and sister cities
caption_attribution_description: English: Zaporizhia Square in Oberhausen (Germany), named after Oberhausen's twin city Zaporizhia (Ukraine) Deutsch: Saporoshje-Platz in Oberhausen (Rhld.), Juni 2012
context_page_description: Zaporizhia, Zaporizhzhia or Zaporizhzhya, also known as Zaporozhye and formerly as Alexandrovsk, is a city in south-eastern Ukraine, situated on the banks of the Dnipro. It is the administrative centre of the Zaporizhia Oblast.
  Zaporizhia is known for its island of Khortytsia and Dnieper Hydroelectric Station. It is also an important industrial centre producing steel, aluminium, aircraft engines, automobiles, transformers for substations, and other heavy industry goods.
context_section_description: Zaporizhia has an agreement about sister city relations with:
  In addition, in 1969 the city renamed one of its streets "Wrocław", the Wrocław communist government acknowledging that they should honour the Ukrainian city in a similar way and a part of the Sudecka – Grabiszyńska street towards the square of the Silesian Insurgents – was renamed to Zaporoska street. It is about 1.3 km long.
caption: Zaporizhia Square in Oberhausen, named after Oberhausen's twin city Zaporizhia
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