Zugres

Zugres

 

a city (since 1938) in Donetsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, on the Krynka River (a tributary of the Mius River). Railroad station (Orlova Sloboda) on the Debal’tsevoIlovaiskoe line. Population, 17,200 (1970). Site of the Zuevka State Regional Electric Power Plant. Zugres has plants producing power-engineering machinery, paving gravel, and cinderblock. The city was formed from a workers’ settlement, which grew up in connection with the construction of the Zuevka State Regional Electric Power Plant. There is a power-engineering technicum.