[en] Full text: The interim spent nuclear fuel facility at Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant is the very first facility of such type in Ukraine. It is a dry storage facility for storage of spent nuclear fuel of WWER-1000 reactors. The storage facility is designed on the basis of the VSC-24 storage cask. The storage facility is located on the site of Zaporizhzhya NPP. The way of the storage facility creation was not short and not simple. Wide enough experience is obtained by the people involved. The chronological consistency of the choice of conception, designing, construction, commissioning and operation of the interim spent nuclear fuel storage facility at Zaporizhzhya NPP is described in the Paper. The place of the storage facility in the framework of the 'Program of Spent Nuclear Fuel Management of Ukrainian NPPs' is presented. The process of the storage facility licensing is described. This process chronologically concurs with the development of the licensing system in Ukraine. The problems which arose during the licensing process are described. The causes of the problems and means of their solution are analyzed. The spent nuclear fuel licenses issued by the State Regulatory Authority for Nuclear and Radiation Safety are presented. Licenses conditions are described. Some design modifications and additional measures for the storage facility safety ensuring made during the licensing process are depicted. The reasons for these modifications and measures are clarified. The storage facility commissioning experience called forth some additional measures. Implemented and scheduled measures for design improvement are presented. The conditions of the storage facility operation and the plans for future modifications of the facility are described. (author)