National Reserve “Khortytsia”””

Khortytsya is the largest island not only on the Dnieper, but on all the rivers of Europe, 12 km long, 2.5 km wide. On its territory all landscapes of Ukraine are connected: plains and meadows, real and petrophytic steppes, rocky granite detachment, beams, upland oak forests, hanging swamps, lakes. There are more than a thousand species of plants, as many species of insects, two hundred species of birds, and two dozen species of mammals. The expositional area of museum is about 1600 m2. Several themes are portrayed there: Khortytsya Island in ancient times, history of Cossacks, history of Zaporizhia at Soviet times. There are also four dioramas representing Khortytsya at different times.