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Donbas

The Donbas is a region of coal and heavy industry in the basin of the Donets River, in present-day eastern Ukraine. In the late nineteenth century it became one of the main centres of industrialisation in the Russian Empire, with rapid growth of coal mining and iron and steel production.

Donbas
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Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Donbas. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/donbas
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