Aleksandrovsk (redirected from Alexandrovsk)

Aleksandrovsk: see Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine.

---

Zaporizhzhya

 formerly (until 1921) Aleksandrovsk

City (pop., 2001: 815,000), on the Dnieper River in southeastern Ukraine. In 1770 the fortress of Aleksandrovsk was built to ensure government control over the Zaporizhzhya Cossacks, whose headquarters were nearby. The settlement became a town in 1806. The city expanded during the 1927–32 construction of the Dnieper hydroelectric station, then the largest in the world. The dam was destroyed in World War II but was later rebuilt. Zaporizhzhya has a major iron and steel plant; automobiles are also manufactured.

---

Aleksandrovsk 

(until 1951 the settlement Aleksan-drovskii), a city in Perm’ Oblast, RSFSR. It is located on the Lytva River in the Kama basin, 23 km north of Kizel. It has the Kopi railroad station. Population in 1968, 18,800. Under Soviet power a major machine-building plant replaced the metallurgical works founded in 1802. There is also a wall material plant. A branch of the Sverdlovsk Machine-building Technicum is located in Aleksandrovsk.

---

Aleksandrovsk 

a city in Voroshilovgrad (until 1971, Lugansk) Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, 3 km from the Melovaia railroad station on the Voroshilovgrad-Debal’tsevo line. Population in 1969, 10,900. There is coal mining in the area; there is an electrical-apparatus plant in town. Previously an urban-type settlement, Aleksandrovsk became a city in 1961.

---

Aleksandrovsk 

until 1921 the name of the city of Zaporozh’e, the center of Zaporozh’e Oblast, Ukrainian SSR.