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Donets Basin

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Donets Basin also Don·bas  (dnbäs)
A major industrial region of eastern Ukraine and southeast Russia north of the Sea of Azov and west of the Donets River. Developed after the 1870s, it is one of the densest industrial concentrations in the world.
Donets Basin [dəˈnɛts]
n
(Placename) another name for the Donbass
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Noun1.Donets Basin - an industrial region in the Ukraine
Donbas, Donbass
Ukraine, Ukrayina - a republic in southeastern Europe; formerly a European soviet; the center of the original Russian state which came into existence in the ninth century


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They also planned to smash our troops in the Donets Basin.
Upgrading military art during the second period of the Great ... by Bogdanov, S.A. / Military Thought
As miners in Ukraine's coal-rich Donets Basin stopped working to protest the wage halts and subsidy cuts of their free-market-minded government, 250,000 Russian teachers, who also were part of Yeltsin's original base, stayed away from schoolrooms for the second day in a row.
COAL MINERS ON STRIKE IN RUSSIA, UKRAINE by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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