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Prokopyevsk
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Prokopyevsk (prəkôp`yĭfsk), city (1989 pop. 274,000), E Siberian Russia. A coal-producing city of the Kuznetsk Basin Kuznetsk Basin, coal basin, c.10,000 sq mi (25,900 sq km), W Siberian Russia, between the Kuznetsk Alatau and the Salair Ridge. Its abbreviated name is Kuzbas.
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, it also manufactures mining machinery, chemicals, and food products. It was founded after the Russian Revolution of 1917. Its coal production declined in the late 1980s.
Prokopyevsk
a city in S Russia: the chief coal-mining centre of the Kuznetsk Basin. Pop.: 216 000 (2005 est.)


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In Prokopievsk, another mining town in Kuzbass, 15,000 miners lost their jobs during the restructuring period, 45 per cent of them under 25 years old.
 
 
 
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