Name: the city of Avdeevka. Status: city of regional significance in the Donetsk region. Location: at about 16 km from Donetsk. Population: about 36.6 thousand inhabitants. Area: 29 km². Reservoirs: the city is located in the upper reaches of the river Kamenka. Year of formation: 1778. Background: the Legend of the origin Авдеевки has a historical basis. Archival documents show that: in the middle of the 18TH century, where now is situated the eastern part of the city steppes settled some великоросс Avdey. At First Avdey invited to imagine malorossov of Poltava province, and in 1778 the governor put here однодворцев from the Kursk and Voronezh provinces. In the middle of the 80-ies of the XIX century through the terrain, on which today is the city, was held Catherine's railway station and a railway station. The status of the city in Avdeevka was in 1956, when the two settlements of urban type Avdiyivka 1-I ("the Old Avdeevka") and Avdiyivka 2-I (Settlement "Chemist") was founded a city. 1959 year opened a new page in the history of Авдеевки. It is in this year on the outskirts of the city in the steppe builders have made the site for the construction of a new coke plant, which was destined to become the largest plant in Europe. A historical date of birth of the plant is 30 November 1963, when he was granted its first coke coke oven battery № 1 - one of the most powerful batteries that time. Since then and up to the present time there is a constant increase of its basic industries. The main sights of the city: the Church of Mary Magdalene, Blue lakes and sandy quarry, Lake Red. Source of information: http://ru.wikipedia.org