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Donets
The
Siverskyi Donets
or
Seversky Donets
, usually simply called the
Donets
, is a
river
on the south of the
East European Plain
. It is the
fourth longest river
in Ukraine. Donets originates in the
Central Russian Upland
, north of
Belgorod
, flows south-east through
Ukraine
(
Kharkiv
,
Donetsk
and
Luhansk Oblasts
) and then again through
Russia
(
Rostov Oblast
) to join the
Don River
, about from the
Sea of Azov
. The Donets is the fourth largest river in Ukraine and the biggest in the
Eastern Ukraine
. It is an important source of fresh water in the east of the country. It gives its name to the
Donets Basin
, known commonly as the Donbass, an important coal mining region in Ukraine.
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