Kamensk-Shakhtinsky

Kamensk-Shakhtinsky

Russia
also spelled  Kamensk-Šachtinskij 

      city, Rostov oblast (region), southwestern Russia, on the Seversky (“Northern”) Donets River. Founded in 1686 as a Cossack settlement, it became a city in 1927. Once a major coal-mining centre of the eastern Donets Basin, it primarily manufactures agricultural and mining machinery, artificial fibres, and glass. Pop. (2006 est.) 95,742.

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