Prokopyevsk ( rus, Прокопьевск, p=prɐˈkopʲjɪfsk) is a

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Kemerovo Oblast Kemerovo Oblast (, ), also known as Kuzbass (, ), after the Kuznetsk Basin, is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Kemerovo is the administrative center and largest city of the oblast. Kemerovo Oblast is one of Rus ...

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. Population:

History

It was founded in 1918 as the settlement of Prokopyevsky () from the existing villages of Monastyrskoye and Prokopyevskoye, and was granted town status and renamed in 1931.

Administrative and municipal status

200px, Town center Within the framework of administrative divisions, Prokopyevsk serves as the

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Prokopyevsky District Prokopyevsky District () is an administrative district (raion), one of the administrative divisions of Kemerovo Oblast, nineteen in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia.Law #215-OZ As a subdivisions of Russia#Municipal divisions, municipal division, it is incor ...

, even though it is not a part of it.Law #215-OZ As an administrative division, it is incorporated separately as Prokopyevsk City Under Oblast Jurisdiction—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the

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. As a municipal division, Prokopyevsk City Under Oblast Jurisdiction is incorporated as Prokopyevsky Urban Okrug.Law #104-OZ

Economy

Prokopyevsk is one of the main centers of the extraction of coking

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in the

Kuznetsk Basin The Kuznetsk Basin (, Кузбасс; often abbreviated as Kuzbass or Kuzbas) in southwestern Siberia, Russia, is one of the largest coal mining areas in Russia, covering an area of around . It lies in the Kuznetsk Depression between Tomsk and ...

(Kuzbass).

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