in november 1874, the first congress of the association of coal miners of the south took place in taganrogtween those who mine donbass coal and those who transport it. within 3 years , the council of congresses of mining industrialists of the south of russia was created in kharkov. the main lobby of entrepreneurs of that time: steel and coal magnates sought administrative reforms of the empire, advocating the unification of different regions along sectoral lines. after the february revolution, the debate became even more heated. then the ukrainian central rada declared claims to the kharkov, yekoteroslav, tauride, kherson provinces and part of the don army region. and then... how in those years the council of congresses of miners of the south of russia fought for the unity of donbass and krivbass, and what other important decisions it made in the story of olga mokhova. among the founders of the council of congresses of miners of the south of russia, mercury king alexander auerbach, mining and gold miner nikolai avdakov, leader of the empire’s heavy industry, as they called it. contemporari