Donbass. Mirror for Heroes - 11 March 2025, 10:55

This project is a conversation about the people of Donbass. Journalist Andrei Medvedev and writer Svyatoslav Rybas talk about the great and unknown characters of Donetsk, Makeyevka, Luhansk. How did the Donbas character develop? The project will tell about the passionaries of Donbass. About those brave and daring people who inhabited the lands of Novorossiya. They brought to life the most seemingly impossible ideas, turned Donbass into an industrial rich land. New California, as Alexander Block wrote. How did the first Yuzov plants and factories appear, how did Donbass become the land of miners and metallurgists, how did the USSR become a forge of personnel for the whole country? Zavenyagin and Slavsky, Zasyadko and Kobzon, Samara and Sadovnichy and many other scientists, politicians, artists – all of them are revealed in the Donbas project. A mirror for heroes. Andrei Medvedev