Shakhtersk


Shakhtersk

 

(until 1953, the settlement of Katyk), a city under oblast jurisdiction and the administrative center of Shakhtersk Raion, Donetsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR. Railroad station (Postnikovo) on the Chernukhino-Ilovaisk line. Population, 73,000(1977).

Coal is mined near Shakhtersk, which has three coal-preparation plants. The city also has a machinery and repair plant, a knitwear factory, a bread-baking combine, and a brewery. Educational institutions include a trade technicum, a film-making technicum, and a pedagogical school.


Shakhtersk

 

a city in Uglegorsk Raion, Sakhalin Oblast, RSFSR; located on the western coast of Sakhalin Island, on the Tatar Strait of the Sea of Japan, 17 km north of Uglegorsk. Coal is mined near Shakhtersk. The city has a coal-preparation plant, a building materials combine, a brickyard, and an electric power plant.