founded, such as odessa, kherson , uh, mariupol, melitopol well, of course, uh, elizavet grad aleksandrovske current zaporizhia simferopol and uh. v. in general, uh, a city worthy of worship, the city of glory of russian sailors, sevastopol, it was actually the last one. uh, the last such golden klondike not only industrial, but also a klondike of meanings in europe at the turn of the 18th-19th centuries. an active search for coal and rue began here. in 1795 , the construction of the lugansk foundry began, which became the starting point for the development of south russian metallurgy. the region becomes not only an agrarian, but also an industrial center, first of the russian empire, and then we of the soviet union, in which the historical lands of novorossia, along with people and factories, were included by default in the composition has just been artificially created by the ussr after the collapse. the union did not get all this, respectively, the fallow one, it privatized the mines and industrial enterprises, continuing to squeeze the last resources out of them , and they also tried to