Donbas coal fields to first secretary and chairman of the USSR Council of.    From Wordnik.com.  [CASTRO INTERVIEW ON RETURN FROM SOVIET TRIP] Reference

Most of Ukraine's coal is mined in the Donetsk/Donbas basin in the eastern region of the country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Energy profile of Ukraine] Reference

Khrushchev came from a peasant family who moved to work in the Donbas in a coal mine, or iron, I do not remember which.    From Wordnik.com.  [CASTRO INTERVIEW ON RETURN FROM SOVIET TRIP] Reference

And everyone worries that Mr. Yanukovych and his band of Donbas-based "dons" are ruthlessly pursuing the same anti-democratic agenda that sparked the Orange Revolution of 2004.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ukraine's Democracy in Danger] Reference

I believe, however unpopular it is to say, that I see Ukraine benefiting from a split/secession; the Donbas region has a completely different mentality and interpretation of history and constantly pulls Ukraine in a direction against which the majority of the oblasts (states) desire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ukraine's 2010 Presidential elections] Reference

A further two to 32 trillion cubic meters of shale gas may lie close to the Polish border, and up to 8 trillion cubic meters of coal-bed methane gas may be in the Donbas basin, according to estimates made last year by former President Viktor Yushchenko 's energy advisor Bohdan Sokolovsky and the Ukrainian government' s National Agency for Energy Resource Management, though these reserves have yet to be commercially proven.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ukraine] Reference

This is Ukraine's industrial heartland, in the Donbas coal basin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spero News] Reference

Forty minutes away from Yenakievo by car, Donetsk is considered the capital of the Donbas region.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spero News] Reference

Over a million locals and prisoners of war were forced into labor in the Ukrainian coal mines in the Donbas region (Donets Basin).    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference

It was from Yanuki that Yanukovych's grandfather emigrated prior to the October Revolution, hoping to find better fortunes in neighboring Ukraine's Donbas region.    From Wordnik.com.  [www.kyivpost.com] Reference

Then, when the polls show even support for the two non-Donbas candidates, the strategy will change to digging up dirt on Yatsenyuk and blaming the "Yushchenko clone" for all of the sitting president's mistakes.    From Wordnik.com.  [News on www.kyivpost.com] Reference

In the 2004 election, the situation was developing in favor of Yanukovych, a prime minister and a protege of then president Leonid Kuchma, who until then was governor of the eastern Ukraine coal-rich Donbas region.    From Wordnik.com.  [RIA Novosti] Reference