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Alexandria is a large industrial city in the southern part of Ukraine, between Kropyvnytskyi and Kremenchug. In the XVIII century. a Cossack winter house appeared here, which in 1754 received the status of a settlement of Usovka (then Becheya, Alexandriysk). The historical center, where the fortress with a military gorrison was located, is the confluence of the river. Berezovka in Ingulets (now a city park). Development in Soviet times is associated with the construction of large industrial enterprises, thanks to which Alexandria became a city of machine builders and miners. Until recently, there was an active mining of brown coal by quarrying (at the flooded coal mines there are now "excavator graveyards"). During the years of Soviet power, all the temples were destroyed in t ...

Alexandria is a large industrial city in the southern part of Ukraine, between Kropyvnytskyi and Kremenchug. In the XVIII century. a Cossack winter house appeared here, which in 1754 received the status of a settlement of Usovka (then Becheya, Alexandriysk). The historical center, where the fortress with a military gorrison was located, is the confluence of the river. Berezovka in Ingulets (now a city park). Development in Soviet times is associated with the construction of large industrial enterprises, thanks to which Alexandria became a city of machine builders and miners. Until recently, there was an active mining of brown coal by quarrying (at the flooded coal mines there are now "excavator graveyards"). During the years of Soviet power, all the temples were destroyed in the city, there are very few architectural monuments.