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Industrial Union Of Donbas
Industrial Union of Donbas (ISD; ) is one of the biggest corporations in Ukraine. It is a horizontally integrated holding company that owns or directs stocks of 40 industrial enterprises in East Ukraine, Hungary, and Poland. The company was created in 1995 and before the appearance of SCM Holdings in 2000 was a major steel rolling corporation in East Ukraine. According to Interfax, ISD produces 9.2 million of steel annually. In 2012 World Steel Association ranking the corporation placed 33rd sharing it with JSW Steel Ltd. In 2021 a court process was initiated regarding bankruptcy of ISD. Later, the Alchevsk Coke-Chemical Factory was recognized bankrupt and proceedings were initiated to liquidate a business entity. In 2017 ISD was informing that lost control of the Alchevsk Coke-Chemical Factory. Stock holders * Serhiy Taruta * Oleh Mkrtchian * ''Vitaliy Haiduk'' (left corporation) In 2010 the Swiss-based Carbofer Group (associate of Evraz Group) along with a "group of investors" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donetsk
Donetsk ( , ; ; ), formerly known as Aleksandrovka, Yuzivka (or Hughesovka), Stalin, and Stalino, is an industrial city in eastern Ukraine located on the Kalmius River in Donetsk Oblast, which is currently occupied by Russia as the capital of the Donetsk People's Republic. The population was estimated at in the city core, with over 2 million in the metropolitan area (2011). According to the 2001 census, Donetsk was the fifth-largest city in Ukraine. Administratively, Donetsk has been the centre of Donetsk Oblast, while historically, it is the unofficial capital and largest city of the larger economic and cultural Donets Basin (''Donbas'') region. Donetsk is adjacent to another major city, Makiivka, and along with other surrounding cities forms a major urban sprawl and conurbation in the region. Donetsk has been a major economic, industrial and scientific centre of Ukraine with a high concentration of heavy industries and a skilled workforce. The density of heavy indus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyiv Post
The ''Kyiv Post'' is Ukraine’s first and most prominent English-language newspaper. It was founded in 1995 in Kyiv by American businessman Jed Sunden. In 2018, the publication was acquired by prominent Ukrainian businessman Adnan Kivan, founder of KADORR Group. On November 11, 2021, Luc Chénier returned to ''Kyiv Post'' as its CEO to rebuild, with his first hire being Bohdan Nahaylo as its Chief Editor. Within two months, ''Kyiv Post'' had doubled its readership, with a clear emphasis on being Ukraine's global voice and by focusing on the USA, Canadian, UK, and European Union markets. By year 3, Kyiv Post had 97% of its readership outside Ukraine, with an combined websites and social media viewership of more than 6 million viewers per month. In October 2023, Kyiv Post was the first news organisations in Ukraine to be given a 100% content transparency and accuracy rating for journalism standards according to global rating platform News Guard (others with a perfect 10 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wyborcza
(; ''The Electoral Gazette'' in English) is a Polish nationwide daily newspaper based in Warsaw, Poland. It was launched on 8 May 1989 on the basis of the Polish Round Table Agreement and as a press organ of the Solidarity (Polish trade union), trade union "Solidarity" in the election campaign before the Contract Sejm. Initially created to cover Poland's first partially free parliamentary elections, it rapidly grew into a major publication, reaching a circulation of over 500,000 copies at its peak in the 1990s. It is published by Agora (company), Agora, with its original editor-in-chief Adam Michnik, appointed by Lech Wałęsa, is one of Poland's newspaper of record, newspapers of record, covering the gamut of political, international and general news from a Leftism, left-Liberalism, liberal perspective. ''Gazeta Wyborcza'' also publishes thematic supplements addressing topics such as economy, law, education, and health, including ''Duży Format'', ''Co Jest Grane 24'', and ''Wys ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kramatorsk
Kramatorsk (, ; ) is a city and the administrative centre of Kramatorsk Raion in Donetsk Oblast of the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. Prior to 2020, Kramatorsk was a city of oblast significance. Since October 2014, Kramatorsk has been the provisional seat of Donetsk Oblast, following the events surrounding the war in Donbas. Its population is It is an important industrial and mechanical engineering center in Ukraine. Kramatorsk is on the banks of the Kazennyi Torets, a right tributary of the Siverskyi Donets. Since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Kramatorsk has been hit by Russian shelling multiple times. Etymology According to Doctor of Philology Yevhen Otin from Dnipro who specializes in onomastics, the name of the city comes from a toponymic phrase that has not been preserved: ''Krom Torov'' or ''Krom Torskaya'' 'border along the Tor River'. The word ''kroma'' means 'edge, frontier, border', and ''Tor'' is the old name for the Kazennyi Torets River. Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberty Steel Group
Liberty Steel Group Holdings UK Ltd (LSG), which is also referred to as Liberty House or Liberty House UK, is a British industrial and metals company founded in the United Kingdom in 1992 by industrialist Sanjeev Gupta. It is headquartered in London, England, and has offices in Dubai, Singapore, and Hong Kong. The company is a subsidiary of Gupta's GFG Alliance. The holding company of Liberty Steel, Liberty House Group PTE Ltd is based in Singapore. History Liberty House was founded by Sanjeev Gupta in 1992, when he was a student at Cambridge University. Living on campus at Trinity College, he registered his company at the college. When this was discovered, he was asked to leave the residence. In 2013, Liberty House Group (LHG) was a surprise buyer for a steel mill in Newport, South Wales, Mir Steel UK, that had got into financial difficulties. Companies owned by Gupta and his family went on to make further acquisitions in the UK. Together with the SIMEC Group, part of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dunaújváros
Dunaújváros (; also known by #Etymology and names, alternative names) is an industrial city in Fejér County, Central Hungary. It is a city with county rights. Situated 70 kilometres (43 miles) south of Budapest on the Danube, the city is best known for its steelworks, which is the largest in the country. It was built in the 1950s on the site of the former village of Dunapentele and was originally named Sztálinváros, before acquiring its current name in 1961. Geography Dunaújváros is located in the Transdanubian part of the Great Hungarian Plain (called Mezőföld), south of Budapest on the Danube, Highway 6, Motorways M6 motorway (Hungary), M6, M8 motorway (Hungary), M8 and the electrified Budapest-Pusztaszabolcs-Dunaújváros-Paks railway. Etymology and names The city replaced the village of ''Dunapentele'' ("Pantaleon up on the Danube"), named after Saint Pantaleon.Antal Papp: Magyarország (Hungary), Panoráma, Budapest, 1982, , p. 860, pp. 542–544 The constructio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ISD Dunaferr
ISD may refer to: Schools United States * Independent school district, a type of school district * Illinois School for the Deaf, Jacksonville, Illinois * Independence Public School District, headquartered in Independence, Missouri * Indiana School for the Deaf, Indianapolis, Indiana * Interboro School District, a school district headquartered in Prospect Park, Pennsylvania, in the Philadelphia area * Issaquah School District, a school district headquartered in Issaquah, Washington Elsewhere * International School of Dakar, Senegal * International School Dhaka, Bangladesh * International School of Düsseldorf, Germany * International School of Dongguan, Guangdong, China * International School of Design, Valenciennes, France Organizations * Industrial Union of Donbas, Ukrainian corporation * Information Services Department of the Hong Kong Government * Information Services Division of NHS National Services Scotland * Institute for Strategic Dialogue, London-based internationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metinvest
Metinvest is a group of steel and mining companies that owns operations in Ukraine, Italy, Bulgaria, the UK and the US. The company mines ore and coal, produces coke, smelts steel and produces rolled products, pipes and other steel products. The group's assets are managed by Metinvest Holding LLC.Colossi With Feet of Clay (22 February 2013) History 2006 On 6 June 2006, Metinvest Holding LLC, the management company of Metinvest Group, was founded. In December 2006, Metinvest acquired a 100% stake in Lehman-Ukraine LLC, a wholesale metal trading company, and an additional 27% stake in Yenakiyeve Iron and Steel Works (EMZ, Donetsk regi ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kamianske
Kamianske (, ; ), previously known as Dniprodzerzhynsk from 1936 to 2016, is an industrial city in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine, and a port on the Dnieper, Dnieper River. It serves as the administrative center of Kamianske Raion and Kamianske urban hromada. Population: On 19 May 2016, it was renamed back to its historical name of Kamianske. Along with the city's name change, the city's hydroelectric station was renamed to Middle Dnieper Hydroelectric Station, Middle Dnieper Hydroelectric Power Plant. Besides the hydroelectric station, the city houses a few other industrial enterprises: Prydniprovsky Chemical Plant radioactive dumps, Prydniprovsky Chemical Plant (closed in 1991), Bahley Coke Factory and Dnieper Metallurgical Combine. History The first written evidence of settlement in the territory of Kamianske appeared in 1750. At that time the villages of Romankove and Kamianske, which make up the modern city, formed a part of the Zaporozhian Sich. The city was known as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
