Donetsk (Russia)

city Donetsk Донецк flag coat of arms Federal district Southern Russia Oblast Rostov Urban district Donetsk mayor Yuri Tarassenko Founded 1681 City since 1951 surface 110  km² population 50,098 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 455 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 120  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 86368 Post Code 346330-346342 License Plate 61, 161 OKATO 60 417 Website www.donetsk-ro.narod.ru Geographical location Coordinates 48 ° 20 '  N , 39 ° 57'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 20 '0 "  N , 39 ° 57' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Rostov Oblast

List of cities in 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 .

geography

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

Donetsk is administratively directly subordinate to the oblast .

traffic

The town is the terminus of the highway M21 of Volgograd , which here at the border crossing Donezk- Izvaryne (Russian Iswarino reached) Ukraine and further than M 04 on Luhansk , Donetsk (Ukraine) and Dnipro after Znamianka leads. The M21 is part of the European route 40 .

South of the city ran the 1916 North-Donets Railway completed railway Kharkiv - Lyman - Rodakowe - Lichowskoi (Station Lichaja ) or - Zverevo . Since Ukraine gained independence in 1991, the Iswaryne station, which was previously used by the city and is eight kilometers away , has been located abroad; In addition, the single-track line on this section had already lost its importance in freight traffic to other lines. Operation on the cross-border section was therefore discontinued, so that Donetsk has had no rail connection since then.

history

The place was in 1681 by Don Cossacks as Staniza Gundorowka founded. At the end of the 19th century, when the coal reserves began to be extracted in the area, a mining settlement was established.

The settlement received city rights in 1951. In 1955 it was renamed Donetsk after the Seversky Donets River . At that time, the much larger and better known city of Donetsk in Ukraine was still called Stalino (renamed 1961).

In 2016, an internationally controversial trial against the Ukrainian military pilot Nadija Savchenko took place here.

Population development

year	Residents
1959	42,369
1970	38.134
1979	44,147
1989	48,673
2002	48.040
2010	50,098

Note: census data

Personalities

• Pavel Gililov (born 1950 in Donetsk), pianist
• Yuri Ussachev (* 1957 in Donetsk), cosmonaut

economy

Donetsk is one of the industrial centers of the eastern Donets Basin. In addition to hard coal mining, there is a factory for excavators and companies in the textile and food industries.

Web links

• City administration website (Russian)
• Donetsk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 goda. Tom 1. Čislennostʹ i razmeščenie naselenija (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010. Volume 1. Number and distribution of the population). Tables 5 , pp. 12-209; 11 , pp. 312–979 (download from the website of the Federal Service for State Statistics of the Russian Federation)
2. ↑ http://orf.at/stories/2328699/2328701/ Pilot as a symbol of the Ukraine conflict: “People's heroine” vs. "Mörderin", orf.at March 13, 2016, accessed March 13, 2016.