City of around 700,000 in the southern Ukraine, southwest of Dnepropetrovsk?, at the confluence of the Ingulets and Saksagan rivers.
It is an industrial and metallurgical centre in a iron-mining region. The city extends for 32 km, paralleling the ore deposits.
The settlement was founded in the 17th C. by Zaporozhe Cossacks. But the area's industrial growth began in the 1880s, when European investment founded a mining syndicate.
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