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Donetsk
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Do·nets'k or Do·netsk  (d-ntsk, d-nyts)
A city of eastern Ukraine east-southeast of Kiev. Founded c. 1870, it is the leading industrial center of the region. Population: 1.000000.

Donetsk (Russian) [daˈnjɛtsk]
n
(Placename) a city in the E Ukraine: the chief industrial centre of the Donbass; first ironworks founded by a Welshman, John Hughes (1872), after whom the town was named Yuzovka (Hughesovka). Pop.: 1 065 400 (1998 est.) Former names (from 1924 until 1961) Stalin, Stalino
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Noun1.Donetsk - an industrial city in the Donets Basin
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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