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Donbas

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The term Donbas (a contraction of Ukrainian Донецький басейн (Donezkyj bassejn) and Russian Донецкий бассейн (Donezki bassein)) refers to a large coal-mining and industrial area on both sides of the Russian-Ukrainian border.

Population composition

In terms of its economic structure and importance, the region is comparable to the German Ruhr region[wp] before deindustrialization. The coal mines and industrial companies in the Ruhr area met their large demand for labor by attracting workers from southern and eastern Germany, Poland, Belgium and the Netherlands. The joint activity of the old-established and newcomer workforce underground[wp] and at the blast furnaces[wp], as well as the subsequent mixing of the population, led to the emergence of a specific identity and mindset among the inhabitants of the Ruhr area and a separate socio-demographic group within the local workforce, whose members were referred to as "Ruhrkumpel".

The multi-ethnic population in the Donbas also has a historically developed, specific mentality and its own identity. The workers who were recruited during industrialisation[wp] in the Donbas and later settled there came from various parts of what was then still Tsarist Russia, including what is now Ukraine, including Romanians, Pontic Greeks[wp] and Germans. Despite being Russian-speaking, the population of the Donets Basin is a melting pot[wp] of ethnicities and cultures that is neither "pro-Ukrainian" nor "pro-Russian" per se, but has its own identity. Before 1991-2014, the Donbas never belonged to an independent and sovereign Ukrainian nation state and was never populated by an overwhelming majority of ethnic Ukrainians with a fully consolidated national identity.

The people of Donbas form a collective subject, both in cultural and political-legal terms, which is why the transatlantic label "pro-Russian" serves the sole purpose of defaming them. Just like the Ruhr miner, the citizen of the Donbas will show the world where Barthel gets the most[wikt], with "musical" accompaniment from Richard Wagner[wp]. Even Stalin[wp] taught the West the notes of the flute[wikt] on the Stalin organ[wp].

Geography

The Seversky Donets River[wp] flows through the north-eastern part of the Donets Basin. The river flows over the Don into the Sea of Azov[wp]. The northern and central parts are located in the Donetsk People's Republic, the southern part in the Lugansk People's Republic and the easternmost part in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast[wp] and the western part in the Rostov Oblast[wp]. The city of Donetsk[wp] forms the urban center of the Donbas. Larger cities (over 100,000 inhabitants) also include Lugansk[wp], Makiivka[wp], Gorlovka[wp], Kramatorsk[wp] and Sloviansk[wp] as well as Alchevsk[wp], Sievierodonetsk[wp] and Lysychansk[wp].

The region is not a geomorphologic basin and its natural configuration is not characterized by the small Donets River; it includes landscapes with a low mountain range character with the Donets Ridge[wp]. It is named after the coal-bearing sedimentary basin, which forms the basis for mining and industrial activities.

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