Donetsk, Russia

Donetsk (Russian Донецк ) is a city in Rostov Oblast (Russia) with 50 098 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ). It is not to be confused with the metropolis of Donetsk in Ukraine.

  • 2.1 Population development

Geography

The city is located in the northeastern foothills of the Donezrückens about 170 km north of Rostov-on- Don Oblasthauptstadt between the right bank of the Seversky Donets and its right tributary Bolshaya Kamenka. Just north, west and south of the city runs the border with Ukraine.

Donetsk Oblast is administratively subordinated directly.

Traffic

The town is the terminus of Highway M21 of Volgograd, the results here at the border crossing Donetsk Iswaryne (Russian Iswarino ) reaches the Ukraine and more than 04 M On Luhansk, Donetsk (Ukraine) and Dnipropetrovsk after Snamjanka. The M21 is part of the European route 40

South of the city was the 1916 finished as Northern Donets railway railway Kharkiv Krasny Lyman Rodakowe - Lichowskoi ( station Lichaja ) or - Zverevo. Since gaining independence, Ukraine in 1991, however, the previously used by the City, eight kilometers away Iswarino station located abroad; Moreover, the single track on this section of track had previously lost their meaning and freight with other routes. The operation on the cross-border section was therefore adjusted so that Donetsk today has a rail service.

History

The town was founded in 1681 by Don Cossacks as Staniza Gundorowka. With the start of mining of coal resources of the area was a mining settlement in the late 19th century.

The settlement received town rights in 1951. In 1955 it was renamed in Donetsk Seversky Donets after the river. At this time was by far the larger and better-known city of Donetsk in Ukraine still Stalino ( renamed 1961).

Demographics

Note: Census data

Personalities

  • Yuri Usachyov ( * 1957 in Donetsk ), Cosmonaut

Economy

Donetsk is one of the industrial centers of the eastern Donets Basin. In addition to the coal industry, there is a work for excavators and enterprises in the textile and food industries.

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