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دونتسک

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Also known as Hughesovka, Yuzovka, Aleksandrovka, Stalin, Stalino

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Donetsk is an industrial city in eastern Ukraine that was once the fifth-largest city in the country, with a metropolitan population exceeding 2 million people. It matters because it is currently occupied by Russia, which has designated it as the capital of the Donetsk People's Republic, making it a focal point of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.

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Settlement.p8: Petrovskyi District
Settlement.p9: Proletarskyi District
Settlement.timezone: EET
Settlement.utc_offset: +2
Settlement.timezone_DST: EEST
Settlement.utc_offset_DST: +3
Settlement.blank_name: Licence plate
Settlement.blank_info: АН
Settlement.blank1_name: Sister cities
Settlement.blank1_info: Bochum, Charleroi, Kutaisi, Pittsburgh, Sheffield, Taranto, Moscow, Vilnius
Settlement.blank2_name: Climate
Settlement.blank2_info: Dfb
Settlement.population_demonym: Donechchany () or Donchane ()
Settlement.pushpin_relief: y
Settlement.mapframe: yes
Settlement.mapframe zoom: 9
Settlement.mapframe wikidata: yes
Settlement.footnotes: Donetsk was founded in 1869 as a workers' settlement Yuzovka/Yuzivka around the metallurgical factory of the Welshman John Hughes. The settlement was established in lands of Yevdokim Shydlovsky, who received them upon destruction of the Zaporizhian Sich in 1775.The population of the metropolitan area is from 2004.

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Named after: Donets
Official name: Донецьк
Country: Ukraine
Contains: Proletarskyi Raion
Official language: Russian
Population: 927201
Area: 358
Elevation: 169
Time zone: UTC+03:00
Body of water: Kalmius
Head of government: Alexey Kulemzin
Capital of: Donetsk People's Republic
Founded by: John Hughes
Official website: gorod-donetsk.com
Image: Вид из Донецкой областной администрации 003.jpg
Dialing code: 623
Licence plate code: AH
Flag: flag of Donetsk

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twinned administrative body: Kursk
Commons category: Donetsk
topic's main category: Category:Donetsk
category for people born here: Category:Births in Donetsk
category for people who died here: Category:Deaths in Donetsk
category of associated people: Category:People from Donetsk
Commons gallery: Донецк
inception: 1869-00-00
native label: Донецк
territory claimed by: Russia
described by source: Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron
postal code: 283000–283497
category for honorary citizens of entity: Category:Honorary citizens of Donetsk
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