Crossword-Solution: DONETS 6 letters, 25 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

The monastery stands on the bank of the river Donets at the foot of a huge white rock covered with gardens, oaks, and ancient pines crowded together and over-hanging, one above another.

You come out of the forest into a plain which is like our Donets steppe, but here the mountain ridges are grander.

Greetings to you, dear mother, Ivan, Masha and Misha, and all of you! In my last long letter I wrote to you that the mountains near Krasnoyarsk are like the Donets Ridge, but that’s not true; when I looked at them from the street I saw they were like high walls surrounding the city, and I was vividly reminded of the Caucasus.

The government is drained by the Don and its tributaries, of which the Donets, Chir and Mius enter from the right and the Khoper and Medvyeditsa from the left.

The government is rich in minerals, especially in coal--the mines lie in the middle of the Donets coalfield--iron ores, fireclay and rock-salt, and every year the mining output increases in quantity, especially of coal and iron.