Talk:Donets

per the same article ==Navigability of the Donets River== I'm not sure if Donets is a navigable river, at least in its Ukrainian part. Anyway, I guess it's not an important waterway in Ukraine. Would somebody check this? AlexPU
 * I know first-hand it is navigable and is navigated in the Russian part, at least to some extent (ferries, shallow barges). Materialscientist (talk) 04:09, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

Doesn't article's "Navigation" section now mention it is navigable (by seagoing ships?) up to Donetsk in Ukraine? The source given is the entry for the Северский Донец (Seversky Donets) in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969–1978 (in Russian), so the information may be out of date. FurnaldHall (talk) 22:19, 21 April 2022 (UTC)

The Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine entry for the "Donets River", copyright 2001, (http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CD%5CO%5CDonetsRiver.htm) also maintains more recently that "About 220 km of the Donets, up to the town of Donetske, is open to ships," but I am unsure if this is merely repeating the above source or based on additional information. Regarding navigability, it should also be noted that "The river freezes at the beginning of December and thaws in mid-March," (I am not sure specifically about the section from Donetsk to the Sea of Azov), again according to the article in the Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine.

Locations on the Map of Donets River Basin Need Urgent Translation into English
Because of the great importance of this region to the ongoing war in Ukraine, it would be helpful to have the map of the Donets Basin now labelled in Cyrillic (Russian? Ukrainian?) labelled in English under the Cyrillic as well. That way one could locate battle zones, usually described in the English language media by the name of the town in English, in relation to the Donets River, which would often provide additional information on the context of the fighting. Vegetation cover, population density and type, and land use maps of the Basin in both languages would also obviously be useful to foreign readers unfamiliar first hand with the area.

German, French and other labelling is probably also worthwhile. FurnaldHall (talk) 22:30, 21 April 2022 (UTC)


 * I translated the map out of Russian, but I don't know how to add the image to the page. Ah well, someone else can do it for me.
 * Seversky Donets EN.png Kyoto Grand (talk) 09:38, 27 January 2023 (UTC)