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Donskoi

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Donskoi 

a city (until 1939, a settlement) in Tula Oblast, RSFSR. Situated in the Moscow Coal Basin in the upper reaches of the Don River. Railroad station (Bobrik-Donskoi) on the Tula-Riazhsk line. Population, 33,000 (1970). There is coal mining in the vicinity of the city. Donskoi has plants producing mining equipment and large-panel construction materials, among others, as well as a woodworking enterprise. There are furniture, shoe, stocking, and leather-goods factories. The city has a technicum of mechanized computing, a medical school, and a museum of local lore.


Donskoi 

an urban-type settlement in Rostov Oblast, RSFSR, 20 km east of the Novocherkassk railroad station. Population, 10,000 (1970). The Novocherkassk Regional Electric Power Plant is located in Donskoi.



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The missile, which can carry nuclear warheads, veered off course and blew up mid-flight after it was launched from Russia's Dmitri Donskoi submarine in the White Sea on July 16.
The missile, which can carry nuclear warheads, veered off course and blew up mid-flight after it was launched from Russia's Dmitri Donskoi submarine in the White Sea on July 16.
Buried on Wednesday amid the pink cupolas of Moscow's Donskoi Monastery with all the pomp and ceremony of the Russian Orthodox Church complete with goose-stepping guards and a choir intoning religious dirges reminiscent of the early scenes of Dr Zhivago.
 
 
 
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