Sloviansk
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Sloviansk is a city in eastern Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

, an administrative center of the Slovianskyi Raion (district
Raion
A raion is a type of administrative unit of several post-Soviet countries. The term, which is from French rayon 'honeycomb, department,' describes both a type of a subnational entity and a division of a city, and is commonly translated in English as "district"...

) within the Donetsk Oblast
Donetsk Oblast
Donetsk Oblast is an oblast of eastern Ukraine. Its administrative center is Donetsk. Historically, the province is an important part of the Donbas region...

. It was founded in 1676, and has a population of 129,600.

History

In 1676 a fortress named Tor was built at the confluence of the Kazenyy Torets and Sukhyy Torets rivers where they form the Torets river, a tributary of Donets river. Shortly thereafter the town of Tor grew up next to the fortress.

As several salt lakes were located close by, the town became a producer of salt
Salt
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. During the sixteenth century, salt production was the principal local industry, but during the eighteenth century it became unprofitable and ceased on December 21, 1782.

In 1784 the city was renamed Sloviansk.

Currently the city is an important health resort.

The principal industry of the city concerns machine building:
    • •Slavtyzamash factory of heavy engineering («Slavtyazhmash») - coke chemical equipment is made for the Lipecka, Kemerova, and Cherepovca businesses. Companies in Mariupol
      Mariupol
      Mariupol , formerly known as Zhdanov , is a port city in southeastern Ukraine. It is located on the coast of the Azov Sea, at the mouth of the Kalmius River. Mariupol is the largest city in Priazovye - a geographical region around Azov Sea, divided by Russia and Ukraine - and is also a popular sea...

      , Kryvyi Rih
      Kryvyi Rih
      Kryvyi Rih or Krivoy Rog is a city in central Ukraine. It is situated in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, to the southwest of the oblast's administrative center, Dnipropetrovsk, at the confluence of the Inhulets and Saksahan rivers...

      , Donetsk
      Donetsk
      Donetsk , is a large city in eastern Ukraine on the Kalmius river. Administratively, it is a center of Donetsk Oblast, while historically, it is the unofficial capital and largest city of the economic and cultural Donets Basin region...

      , and Dniprodzerzhynsk
      Dniprodzerzhynsk
      Dniprodzerzhynsk is an industrial city in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast of Ukraine, and a port on the Dnieper River.-History:The first written evidence of settlement in the territory of Dniprodzerzhynsk appeared in 1750. At that time the villages of Romankovo and Kamianske, which make the modern city,...

      use their products.
    • •The Betonmash machine-building factory, which produces complete concrete mixing plants.
    • •The Slavonic mechanical plant, which currently is well-equipped and employs approximately four hundred people.
    • •The Artem Armature-insulator factory.
    • •A factory producing high-voltage insulators for hydroelectric power stations and thermal power-stations.


Religious organisations
• Christian churches:
    • Cathedral of Novomuchenikov of Confessors (Russian Orthodox)
    • Svyatovoskresenskiy Church
    • Church of the Apostle Andrey Pervozvannogo;
    • Church of Oleksandr Nevsky;
    • Church of Seraphim Sarovskogo;
    • The "Kind New" Christian Center Church
    • Church of Jesus Christ of the Protestant Church of Ukraine

External links

// Official website
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