title: The discoverer of the Donetsk coal
abstract: The analysis of archival documents and literature on early discovery and commercial development of the Donetsk coal basin. The role of the population of Eastern Ukraine and local elites in learning first coal deposits. Opening of Donbass coal - much politicized issue in the Soviet era. Modern analysis of archival documents and literary sources, summarizing data on coal discovery reveals that the following:- Most likely, the population of Eastern Ukraine-Rus (later - land Zaporizhian Sich) opened
journal: Skhid