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Zuhres - is a city in Donetsk Oblast (province) of Ukraine.

It is situated on the river Krynka.

Railway station (Orlova Sloboda).

It is a part of Donetsk agglomeration.

On April, 1930 foundation excavation of Zuevskaya GRES chief building began. The barracks were being built on the left bank of the river. Families were domiciling first. The younger ones were rigging up huts from boards and straw or making digouts. And near the future chief building the foundations of dwellings were being already laid, a little “stone” town was being built – the foundation of the future city of power engineers ZuGRES. The dam was being concreted in treble shift in order not to waste even an hour. The works didn’t stop even in winter. They kept in the fire during the days and long cold winter evenings in order for the concrete not to become cold; they warmed their hands at the fire. One of the main troubles was the training of personnel. The courses of operators were being opened. After a hard working day the workers turned to textbooks and notes. Finally, on August, 1939 the first and the largest turbo generator in the country with a capacity of 100 thousands kilowatts gave the industrial current. Its run made ZuGRES the largest thermal power station in the Soviet Union.

T'he Donetsk Oblast (region) - oblast is located in southeastern Ukraine. Its administrative center is Donetsk. The population of Donetsk Oblast is 4.5806 (as of January 1st, 2007), which constitutes 9.82% of the overall Ukrainian population, making it the most populous and most densely populated region of the country. Its longitude from north to south is 255 km, from east to west – 180 km. Total length of the borders is 1 526 km: land borders - 1 376 km, sea borders - 140 km. The highest point of Donetsk oblast is kurgan Mohyla Ostraya (331 m); the lowest one (−0,4 m) is water level of the Sea of Azov.

Oblast is located in steppe zone, with moderately continental climate, with relatively cold winters with changeable snow surfaces and hot summer. Average temperatures in January are from -5 till -8 °C and in July - from +21 till +23 °C. Average precipitation is nearly 500 mm per year. Hot winds often blow in spring, draughts, sometimes dust storms and hail, happen in summer, snowstorms take place in winter. The landscape consists mostly of plains with broken ground (with the height up to 200 m). The characteristic feature of the relief of this region is the presence of human origin forms: terricones, open-pit mines and others.

The Donetsk Oblast is one of the mineral resource leaders in Ukraine, such resource as coal is among the richest. There are also considerable reserves of rock salt. Mineral raw material production base of construction materials and iron industry is presented with dolomites,     granite, lime carbonate, ball- and fireclay, marl, plaster, kaolin, chalk stone, mortar and quartz sands, quartzite and others. Reserves of mineral inks, phosphorites, mercury, asbestos, graphite are also presented. Here were found even reserves of syenite, calcium fluoride, vermiculite, iron ores and lawsonite.