Donets Ridge

{{Short description|Highland in Ukraine and Russia}}

File:Donets Ridge on the Map of Ukraine (English).jpg

The Donets Ridge{{cite web |url=https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Donets+Ridge |title=Donets Ridge |author= |date=1979|edition=3rd |website=The Great Soviet Encyclopedia |publisher=The Gale Group |access-date= |quote=}} is a highland that is the highest north-eastern part of the Donets upland. The ridge is in the Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts of Ukraine and partially in the Rostov Oblast of Russia. The highest point on the ridge is a hill — Mohyla Mechetna, {{convert|367|m|ft|abbr=on}}.

Another hill, Savur-Mohyla ({{convert|278|m|ft|abbr=on}}), was a notable site in the War in Donbass.{{citation needed|date=June 2017}}

Name

The name derives from the river Seversky (Siversky) Donets.

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