Donetsk
Donetsk is a city in the oriental party of the Ukraine. It is the center of the oblast of Donetsk and the area of the Donbass.
The city has 988 000 inhabitants (2007) and conurbation 1 566 000 (2004).
A subway is in construction.
History
An immense metallurgical center was founded in 1869 by the business man John Hughes to use the mines in particular coal. The name of the east city in the beginning Iouzovka (Iouz being a phonetic transposition of Hughes). In 1924 it was named Stalino (not, as opposed to what much think, in homage to Joseph Stalin, but in reference to stal (сталь) which means Acier in Russian) and in 1961 it accepted its current name.
Population
Donetsk has a population of 988 000 inhabitants in 2007, which makes the fifth town of Ukraine of it. Its metropolitan zone counts 1 566 000 inhabitants in 2004.While the inhabitants of the north and the west of the Ukraine use in majority the Ukrainian language in this part it is the Russian language which is dominant, like the majority of the inhabitants of the Donbass.
Pattern of the settlement of the town of Donetsk: Russian 48,15%, 46,65% of Ukrainians, 1,15% of Belorusses, 0,99% of Greeks, 0,50% of Jews, 0,49% of Tatars, 0,40% of Armenians, 0,20% of Azerbaijani, 0,20% of Géorgiens, others 1,27%.
Others
Rinat Akhmetov has many steel-works, luxury hotels, as well as the football club Shakhtar Donetsk.
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