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Also known as Severskiy Donets, Siverskiy Donets, Donetz, Donets River, Seversky Donets, Siverskyy Donets, Siversky Donets, Siverskyi Donets

The Seversky Donets () or Siverskyi Donets (), usually simply called the Donets (), is a river on the south of the East European Plain. It 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 river Don, about from the Sea of Azov. The Donets is the fourth-longest river in Ukraine, and the largest in eastern Ukraine, where it is an important source of fresh water. It gives its name to the Donets Basin, known commonly as the Donbas, an important coal-mining an

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The Donets is a major river in Eastern Europe that flows from Russia through Ukraine and back into Russia, serving as a crucial source of fresh water for eastern Ukraine and giving its name to the Donbas, an important coal-mining region. The river is Ukraine's fourth-longest and is significant for both the local environment and the industrial economy of the area it passes through.

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Key facts

River.name
Donets
River.image
Северский Донец и Святогорская Лавра. 2006.jpg
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250
River.image_caption
View of the Donets and Sviatohirsk Lavra, the Holy Mountains.
River.map
Seversky Donets.png
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250
River.map_caption
Map of the Donets basin
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yes
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5
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250
River.subdivision_type1
Country
River.subdivision_name1
Russia, Ukraine
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Cities
River.subdivision_name5
Belgorod, Lysychansk, Sievierodonetsk
River.source1_location
Prokhorovsky District, Belgorod Oblast, Russia
River.mouth
Don
River.mouth_location
Rostov Oblast, Russia

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Donets near shipilivka4.JPG
Length
1053
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Commons category
Seversky Donets
watershed area
98900
discharge
159
native label
Сіверський Донець
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The Seversky Donets () or Siverskyi Donets (), usually simply called the Donets (), is a river on the south of the East European Plain. It 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 river Don, about from the Sea of Azov. The Donets is the fourth-longest river in Ukraine, and the largest in eastern Ukraine, where it is an important source of fresh water. It gives its name to the Donets Basin, known commonly as the Donbas, an important coal-mining and industrial region in Ukraine.

==Etymology== The names Don and its diminutive Donets are derived from Iranic, Sarmatian "the river". Scytho-Sarmatians inhabited the areas to the north of the Black Sea from 1100 BC into the early medieval times.

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