About the book: 2017 / Here is the first historical guide of its kind to Donbass, its main cities, history, and culture. Combining journalistic methods with artistic techniques, the author gives everyone the opportunity to understand the essence of such an undoubtedly original phenomenon of Russian life as Donbass. With this book, everyone who reads in Russian receives, albeit not complete, not without bias and misconceptions, an encyclopedia of the region that everyone has heard of, but few know what it represents for Russia and the world.