Novohrodivka. What Awaits the Mining Towns After Reform?

The government is preparing large-scale transformations of the mining industry. What awaits small mining towns, where apart from the mining enterprises there is nothing? Novohrodivka — a mining town in the Donetsk region. Located 6 kilometres from the town of Selydove, with which it is linked historically and economically. The absence of reforms in the coal industry, the inefficiency of the product-sales system and the lack of system in financing have a negative effect on the social situation of small towns and settlements. As a result of ineffective state policy, many enterprises of the mining industry are doomed to closure, and the mining towns to extinction.

Novohrodivka. Donetsk region. Mine No. 1-3 "Novohrodivska"

The 'Sukhareva Balka' Reserve. A Natural Monument

In 2013, with the aim of preserving the landscape and biological diversity in the Mezhova district of the Dnipropetrovsk region, the "Sukhareva Balka" landscape reserve was created.

The Vovcha river. Sources and course. Stories and legends

Toponymic legends are linked to famous personalities who were the founders of cities or the discoverers of unexplored lands. Oral folk art has from ancient times brought down to our day the stories of the origin of geographical features. One of the most famous and ancient of the world's legends tells of the Capitoline she-wolf, which suckled two brothers, one of whom would become the founder of Rome. In honour of the mother of the Romans a bronze sculpture was created, copies of which are a source of pride in many countries of the world. In Ukraine there is also a stone statue of a local predator, the progenitress of a hydronym.

Prohres, Pokrovsk district, Donetsk region. Monument to the she-wolf - founder of the name of the watercourse

Kamianka and Andronivka. A Quarry on a Regional Border

A worked-out quarry on the border of the Dnipropetrovsk and Donetsk regions lies on the right bank of the Byk river.

Mute swans. Observing, admiring, learning

By observing nature and its creations, a person can learn a great deal. Swans are known for their conjugal fidelity and their inconceivable devotion.

The 'Kleban-Byk' Regional Landscape Park

The Kleban-Byk regional landscape park was created in 2000 in the Kostiantynivka and Bakhmut districts of the Donetsk region.

The "Kleban-Byk" regional landscape park

Ukrainian Architectural Modern (UAM). A National Style

Ukrainian Modern took shape on the traditions of progressive architecture with the use of historical architectural forms. The style was founded on the canons of folk building, the ritual character of religious structures and the achievements of European architecture. UAM developed on the territory of Ukraine during 1903-1941, and in those years about 500 remarkable structures were built — religious buildings, zemstvo schools and hospitals, and public buildings. Not all of the representatives of the national architectural heritage have survived to our days, but many of the monuments can be called true masterpieces of Ukrainian art.

The Vasyl Krychevskyi Poltava Museum of Local Lore (UAM)

Slag Heaps. The Benefit, Harm and Danger to Mining Towns

The Donetsk steppe is literally strewn with artificial grey-blue cone-shaped mountains. In the region they number more than 600. The bluish slag heaps have become the unchanging symbols of the mining towns and settlements. Like all mountain ranges, they are conquered by daring bold souls. The risky ascent up slopes at an angle of 40-60 degrees draws incorrigible romantics and desperate lovers of contemplating industrial landscapes and urban panoramas.

A Day Off in the Donetsk Region. Tourist Locations

The Donetsk region is pockmarked, as if with scars, by mine workings and open quarries, dotted with factory workshops and steaming chimneys, saturated with chemical waste and emissions. It might seem that in this industrial land not a single living spot or green corner has been left for rest. And yet the region does have natural monuments and creations of human hands where you can set off on a day off or a holiday to spend your time interestingly and to good purpose.

Donetsk region. The "Bilenke" section of the "Kramatorsk" regional landscape park

Kamianka. The 'Floodplain of the Byk River' Reserve

The village of Kamianka in the Dobropillia district lies in the west of the Donetsk region, where the administrative border with the Dnipropetrovsk region runs.