Zaporizke (former Vasylivka, Engelhardt-Vasylivka) is a village in Ukraine, in Kryvyi Rih Raion of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (region).

[citation needed] The village is in the south-western part of Dnipropetrovsk region, in the north of Sofiyivka area, on the Kam'yanka river.

In 1786 a German landlord Vasil Engelhardt got six thousand acres of land along the river Kam'yanka and founded the village.

Engelhardt' son General Vasil inherited the land and built two mills (currently the farm) on the right bank of the Kam'yanka river.

[3] As of 1886 the village was the center of Engelhardt-Vasilyvka district, Verkhnodniprovsk uyezd, Yekaterinoslav Governorate and counted to 364 people, 114 farm yard, Orthodox Church.

"Lousy (Voshiva)" – on the right side of the landlord's pond where two families began to build their houses and clang to this place like lice.

In December 1917, the Council of Peasants' Deputies was elected in the village, which included I. I. Garkusha, Z. T. Babenko, S. M. Kolisnyk, G. S. Pylypenko and others.

The Soviet authority was set up in 1918 Bondarenko Archip Grigorovich was chosen as the Chairman of the Village Council in 1919, later it was Mikhail Efim Kolesnik (up to 1939).

In 1924, the villagers created the first TSOz (partnership for joint cultivation of land), headed by Sergey Kolesnik.

At the time the Partnership "New Life", chaired by Harkusha Ivan Ivanovich, was first organized in the Sofiyivka Raion consisting of twelve households.

The land was cultivated by horses and oxen, sheaves were driven on wagons, grain was threshed with Garman (hewn stone).

During Holodomor 1931–1933 years the villagers for surviving had to eat mushrooms, soybeans, tonkonih, press cake, to pick up spikelets, acacia blossoms, horse dock, of which matorzhenyky (a kind of shortcake) were baked, zatirka (a soup with flour) was cooked.

Members of collective farms were given 1 kg (2.2 lb) of flour per family a month and one cup of milk a day.

A medical center was located in an ordinary village house, in which Hom'ak Vasyl Onykiyovych and Maria G. Demchenko worked as feldshers.

The Germans divided the collective farm into ten (10 families) and forced people to cultivate the land, and to clear roads in summer.

At the village council so called "soldiers of cultural army" Smiyanenko, Artemenko, Manzyuk carried on their activity.

In the period 1954–1959 the chairman of the collective farm was Ivan P. Barylchenko, awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor in 1958.

The village was spreading, the number of tractors, combine-harvesters, machinery were increasing, the heads of the collective farm replaced each other.

The village shop sold food and household goods (managed by Kolesnik Nadiya Okafiyovna).

From 1982 to 1992 Yalovoy Grigory was managing the collective farm after Petrovsky, He made a great contribution to rural development.

They also set to work a power-driven floor and the first gas dryer in the area, storage for 3,000 tons of grain, enclosed the floor and laid asphalt in its territory, asphalted the tractor brigade, laid the tile road to the farm, purchased new harvesters "Don-1500" and trucks "Kamaz".

In 1992 the first private farm (SFG) "Hosanna" was created (head V. Davydenko), and in 1993, the collective farm after Petrovsky was reorganized in KSP (Collective Agricultural Enterprise) "Zaporiz'ke" (head Yaloviy G. A), and in 2000 STOV (Agricultural LTD) "Revival" and STOV "Friendship".