however , the founder of the donetsk-yuryev metallurgical society, alexey alchevsky , differed from thettitude towards workers and in the fact that relied in his business exclusively on domestic capital. at our plant , according to the evozyat biketov project , a city hospital was built for workers and an exemplary workers' village was designed, in which there were not wooden barracks, but solid houses made of wild stone and red brick. and when the country experienced an economic crisis, alexey kirillovich did not fire the factory workers until the last minute and continued to pay wages. za dumo was at that time like an island in the stormy ocean of economic crisis. here they continued to smelt iron and steel and produce various types of rolled products, although production was being curtailed everywhere. the disasters that were already sweeping across russia were not fully felt here. one of the first marshals of the soviet union, the legendary klim voroshilov began his labor and revolutionary journey at the alexei alchevsky plant. the workers ' settlement received his name, along with

colonists form a motley multinational community. century , russian foreign entrepreneur john hughes, alchevskyakovs, mamontov, create donbass the glory of the steel heart of russia, and little russian columbus alexander paul opens the krivoy rog mining basin. the revolution of 917 and the civil war led to the creation of several republics in novorossiya. who imagined themselves to be part of the new russia, the same donetsk- krivoy rog republic, but with the advent of the ukrainian soviet socialist republic, with its center in kharkov, and then in kiev, the bolsheviks, for ideological reasons, transferred most of the region to its composition. the top party leadership hoped that the proletariat of donbass would dilute numerous... and politically unstable ukrainian peasantry. crimea remained russian for a long time, becoming part of ukraine only in the mid-fifties of the last century. then it seemed that being in the ossr would not sever the historical, economic and human ties in the original russian territories. the collapse of the ussr in 9 changed everything. novorossiya became the southeast