Before you is the first of its kind historical guide to the Donbass, its main cities, history, culture. Combining journalistic methods with artistic techniques, the author makes it possible for everyone to understand the essence of such an undoubtedly original phenomenon of Russian life as Donbass. Everyone who reads Russian receives with this book, albeit not complete, not devoid of partiality and delusions, the encyclopedia of the region, which everyone has heard about, but few people know what it is for Russia and the world.