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The name of the region origins from its economic status of the coal-field discovered in late ( 19th century). That field ( basin) itself was named after a Donets river flowing across the region.

In 1676 first town of the Donbass emerges: Sol'anoje (now Slavyansk ) which was built for high-profit business of extracting newly-discovered rock-salt reserves. In 1721 vast and rich coal fields were found, which started the "industrial boom" which led to the flourish of the region in 18th17th century 18th century 19th century more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 18th century refers to the century that lasted from 1701- 1800; however, historians will sometimes specifically refer to the 18th Century as 1715- 89,–first half of 20th century19th century 20th century 21st century more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901- 2000 in the sense of the Gre.

Donbass may sometimes be referred to a larger supranational region also consisting a part of neighbouring RostovRostov ( Russian: Росто́в), also called Rostov Veliky and Rostov Yaroslavsky is one of the oldest towns in Russia and an important tourist centre of the so called Golden ring. It is located on the shores of Lake Nskaya oblast' in RussiaThe Russian Federation ( Russian: , transliteration: Rossiyskaya Federatsiya or Rossijskaja Federacija , or Russia (Russian: , transliteration: Rossiya or Rossija , is a country that stretches over a vast expanse of eastern Europe and northern Asia. With. This is explained by the fact that Donets' coal basin geographically extends to that area (also specializing in coal- miningSilver City, New Mexico is an open-pit copper mine Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, usually (but not always) from an ore body, vein or (coal) seam. Materials commonly recovered by mining include b), which sometimes called a "Russian Donbass". But lesser economical and, most of all, sociopolitical significance of that Russian area (compared with the Ukrainian part) leads to gradual abandonment of such generic usage of the Donbass term.

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History of Donbass, (in Russian)