Novoshakhtinsk
Novoshakhtinsk () is a mining city in Rostov Oblast, Russia, within 20 kilometres of the Dovzhansky border crossing to Ukraine.
Key facts
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- Novoshakhtinsk
- Russian inhabited locality.ru_name
- Новошахтинск
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- City Administration building
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- right
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- Flag of Novoshakhtinsk (Rostov oblast).png
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- Coat of Arms of Novoshakhtinsk (Rostov oblast).png
- Russian inhabited locality.federal_subject
- Rostov Oblast
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- Novoshakhtinsk Urban Okrug
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- Novoshakhtinsk Urban Okrug
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- City
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- History
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- Administrative and municipal status
- Notable people
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Novoshakhtinsk () is a mining city in Rostov Oblast, Russia, within 20 kilometres of the Dovzhansky border crossing to Ukraine.
==History== It was established in 1939. This was where Novosakhtinsk NKVD/MVD prisoner of war camp No. 430 was located, where German, Austrian, Hungarian, and Romanian prisoners of war were taken to forced labor in mining from 1945.08.27 to 1948.06.22.