Kriviy Rih
The Russian spelling of the Ukrainian city Kryvyi Rih. It is a city of around 700,000 in the southern Ukraine, southwest of Dnipropetrovsk, at the confluence of the Inhulets and Saksahan rivers.
It is an industrial and metallurgical centre in a iron-mining region. The city extends for 32 km, paralleling the ore deposits.
It has one metro line with 4 stations.
The settlement was founded in the 17th C. by Zaporozhian Cossacks. But the area's industrial growth began in the 1880s, when European investment founded a mining syndicate.
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Dnepropetrovs'k | Dnipropetrovsk | List of cities in Ukraine
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