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Don
Don , river, SW European Russia. It rises SE of Tula and flows c.1,200 mi (1,930 km), first SE past Voronezh, then SW into the Sea of Azov. At its eastern bend the Don is linked by a canal (c.65 mi/105 m long), with the Volga River near Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad). The annual flood of the river ... Read more
Belgorod
Belgorod , city (1989 pop. 300,000), capital of Belgorod region, S central European Russia, on the Northern Donets River. It is a railway junction and one of the chief centers in Russia for the manufacture of cement and construction materials. These industries are based on nearby limestone deposits;... Read more
Shakhty
Shakhty , city (1989 pop. 226,000), SW European Russia; a major anthracite-mining center of the Donets Basin. Industrial products include iron, clothing, brewed beverages, and footwear. Shakhty, founded in 1829 as a coal-mining settlement, was known as Aleksandrov-Grushevski until 1920. In 1928 a ... Read more
Stakhanovism
Stakhanovism , movement begun (1935) in the Soviet Union aimed at increasing industrial production by the use of efficient working techniques. It was named for Aleksey Grigorevich Stakhanov, a coal miner in the Donets Basin, whose team increased its daily output sevenfold by organizing a more effici... Read more
Kharkiv
Kharkiv , Rus. Kharkov, city (1990 est. pop. 1,600,000), capital of Kharkiv region, E Ukraine, at the confluence of the Kharkiv, Lopan, and Udy rivers in the upper Donets valley. Ukraine's second largest city, Kharkiv is also one of the country's main rail junctions and economic and cultural cente... Read more
Volgograd
Volgograd , formerly Stalingrad, city (1989 pop. 999,000), capital of Volgograd region, SE European Russia, a port on the Volga River and the eastern terminus of the Volga-Don Canal. As a transshipment point, the port handles oil, coal, ore, lumber, and fish. Volgograd is also a major rail cente... Read more
Zaporizhzhya
Zaporizhzhya , Rus. Zaporozhye, city (1989 pop. 884,000), capital of Zaporizhzhya region, in Ukraine, a port on the Dnieper River, opposite the island of Khortytsya. The city, founded in 1770 on the site of the Zaporizhzhya Cossack camp, consists of old Zaporizhzhya (called Aleksandrovsk before 19... Read more
Ukraine
Ukraine , Ukr. Ukraina, republic (2005 est. pop. 47,425,000), 232,046 sq mi (601,000 sq km), E Europe. It borders on Poland in the northwest; on Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Moldova in the southwest; on the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov in the south; on Russia in the east and northeast; and on ... Read more
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), Rus. Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, former republic. It was established in 1922 and dissolved in 1991. The Soviet Union was the first state to be based on Marxist socialism (see also Marxism ; communism ). Until 1989 the Communist ... Read more

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Donets Basin
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Donets Basin denyĕts´ , abbreviated...Russia, N of the Sea of Azov and W of the Donets River. It is located mainly in Donetsk...Ukraine and extends E into Rostov region. The Donets Basin forms one of the densest industrial...
Donets
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Donets , river, c.650 mi (1,050 km) long, in Ukraine and SW European Russia. A tributary of the Don, it is also called the North Donets (Rus. Severny Donets ). It rises NE of Belgorod, which it passes, and flows generally...
Kharkov, battles of
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II ...x2009;mi.) to the east, on the River Donets. Although meanders reduced the river...plan calling for five armies to cross the Donets 120 km. (75 ...launched converging thrusts along the Donets from the north and south. Timoshenko...
Ukraine
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Dnieper, the Dniester, the Buh, and the Donets rivers, Ukraine consists largely of fertile...Podolian uplands in the west to the Donets Ridge in the southeast. The Dnieper divides...the coking coal and anthracite of the Donets Basin . The Dniprohes dam powers a hydroelectric...
Kharkiv
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...confluence of the Kharkiv, Lopan, and Udy rivers in the upper Donets valley. Ukraine's second largest city, Kharkiv is also one...Proximity to the iron mines of Kryvyy Rih and the coal of the Donets Basin has provided the basis for engineering industries that...
Kamensk-Shakhtinski
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Kamensk-Shakhtinski , city (1989 pop. 72,000), SE European Russia, on the Donets River. A mining center of the Donets coal basin, the city is also an important producer of artificial fibers and mining machinery. Kamensk...
Artemovsk
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...pop. 90,000), in Ukraine. An industrial center of the Donets Basin, it produces metals, mining equipment, glass, bricks...Nearby are salt and dolomite deposits that are utilized in the Donets iron and steel and chemical industries.
Luhansk
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...at the confluence of the Luhan and Vilkhivka rivers, in the Donets Basin. Its products include locomotives, processed coal...1796 around a cannon foundry, and is the oldest center of the Donets Basin. Named Luhansk in 1889, it was called Voroshilovgrad...
Kuznetsk Basin
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...grade coking coal, the Kuznetsk Basin was second only to the Donets Basin of Ukraine in Soviet regional coal production. The main...surpassed only by that of the Urals. Strikes by Kuznetsk and Donets Basin coal miners in 1989 and 1990 weakened the Gorbachev government...
Don
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...important artery for grain, coal, and lumber shipments. The chief tributary of the Don is the Donets, which connects it with the industrial Donets Basin . Known to the ancients as the Tanaïs, the Don has been a trading channel since...

Dictionary entries related to "Donets"

Helmersen, Grigory Petrovich
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...deposits in the Kiev, Kherson, and Grodno guberniyas, and in the Donets and Dabrowa Gornicza coal basins. Some of his papers dealt...directed the compilation of the first stratigraphic map of the Donets Basin. He was also interested in Quaternary glaciation and...
Balada O Soldate
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Grigori Chukhrai," in Film Dope (London), April 1975. De Libero, L., in Cinema Nuovo (Bari), January-February 1977. Donets, L., in Iskusstvo Kino (Moscow), no. 1, 1989. Iensen, T., "Četyre dnja bez vojny," in Iskusstvo Kino...
Idi i Smotri
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Film and Television (Abingdon), vol. 14, no. 4, 1994. Interviews: Cinéma (Paris), 23 September 1987. Donets, L., "Preodolenie," in Iskusstvo Kino (Moscow), no. 5, 1995. * * * Come and See is set in Byelorussia in 1943...
Chernyshev, Feodosy Nikolaevich
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...the Timan (1902). In 1892 Chernyshev was commissioned to head a scientific group to study the geological structure of the Donets coal basin. Using the stratigraphical- paleontological method of research, Chernyshev and the group of geologists that he...
Chernov, Dmitri Konstantinovich
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...forging shop and then as metallurgical assistant to the head of the plant. Chernov prospected for deposits of rock salt in the Donets Basin from 1880 to 1884, returning in the latter year to St. Petersburg. From 1889 he was professor of metallurgy at the...

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THE PENNSYLVANIAN (MOSCOVIAN) IZVARINO SECTION, DONETS BASIN, UKRAINE: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY STUDY ON MICROFACIES, BIOSTRATIGRAPHY (CONODONTS, FORAMINIFERS, AND OSTRACODES), AND PALEOECOLOGY
Magazine article from: Journal of Paleontology; 9/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...The mid-Moscovian Izvarino section, Donets Basin, eastern Ukraine, exhibits a complete...this context, the Izvarino section (Donets Basin, Ukraine) is an exceptional case...most of the Pennsylvanian sections in the Donets Basin, fine-grained sandstones, siltstones...
Donets sets world record in 100 backstroke
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 12/14/2008; 356 words ; Stanislav Donets of Russia set a world record Sunday in...European short-course championships. Donets won in 49.32 seconds, beating the old...United States last month in Berlin. It was Donets's third gold at the championships after...
Discussion on high-precision (40)Ar/(39)Ar spectrum dating on sanidine from the Donets Basin, Ukraine: Evidence for correlation problelms in the Upper Carboniferous
Magazine article from: Journal of the Geological Society; 7/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...samples from coal tonsteins' from the Donets Basin for Ar/Ar sanidine dating...biostratigraphic] correlation of the Donets Basin Carboniferous with the Western European...lithostratigraphic standard scheme of the Donets Basin the tonstein in coal seam 1^sub...
High-precision 40Ar/39Ar spectrum dating on sanidine from the Donets Basin, Ukraine: Evidence for correlation problems in the Upper Carboniferous
Magazine article from: Journal of the Geological Society; 5/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...group (middle Moscovian stage) of the Donets Basin Upper Carboniferous (Ukraine...Europe. Keywords: ^sup 40^Ar/39Ar, Donets Basin, Upper Carboniferous, sanidine...sanidine from a coal tonstein horizon of the Donets Basin (Fig. 1) have been measured...
New plasma physics research has been reported by E.D. Donets et al.
Newspaper article from: Physics Week; 3/24/2009; 602 words ; ...states forms in the trap," wrote E.D. Donets and colleagues. The researchers concluded...operating in the electron-string mode." Donets and colleagues published the results of...additional information, contact E.D. Donets, Joint Institute Nuclear Research, Dubna...
Marathon and Naftogaz Ukrainy Sign Cooperation Agreement to Carry out a Study in Dnieper-Donets Basin.
PR Newswire; 6/5/2007; 700+ words ; ...in an area of interest in the Dnieper-Donets Basin located in North Central Ukraine...the resource potential of the Dnieper-Donets Basin and the formation of a long-term...and Naftogaz Ukrainy." The Dnieper-Donets Basin is believed to contain significant...
IBF donets Encyclopedia to CWU, THE INDEPENDENT
Newspaper article from: The Independent (Bangladesh); 10/17/2002; 214 words ; 00-00-0000 Islami Bank Foundation, a subsidiary organization of Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited donated a set of 'Encyclopedia Britannica' comprising 32 volumes to the Central Women University under 'Education Program' of the Foundation says a press release. Shah Abdul Hannan, Chairman, Board of
The Comparative Failure of Machine Politics, Administrative Resources and Fraud
Magazine article from: Canadian Slavonic Papers; 9/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...The empirical evidence first draws on Donets'k Oblast', the home of Viktor Yanukovych...why these strategies were successful in Donets'k and offers some explanations as to...prime minister and former governor of Donets'k Oblast', and Viktor Yushchenko...
Ukraine Demonstrators Plan to Sit Tight
News Wire article from: AP Online; 12/8/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...from volunteers who put trust in us," said Pavlo Donets from the northern Ukrainian city of Sumy. The tent...herself to a businessman who provides us with gas," Donets said. Donets said his boss let him go to the demonstrations and...
Sooty faces, snotty noses, orange ribbons _ tired Ukrainian demonstrators say they plan to stay until final victory
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 12/8/2004; ; 658 words ; ...volunteers who put trust in us," said Pavlo Donets from the northern Ukrainian city of Sumy...businessman who provides us with gas," Donets said. His boss let him go and paid a...all." "I must justify their hopes," Donets said. He called his camp a "little state...