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Prokopyevsk (Проко́пьевск)

 



Prokopyevsk is a city in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia. Population: 224,597 It was founded in 1918 as Prokopyevsky settlement from the existing villages of Monastyrskoye and Prokopyevskoye, and was granted town status in 1931 under its current name.





Prokopyevsk is one of the main centers of the extraction of coking coal in the Kuznetsk Basin (Kuzbass).





The city is known for it's adoption of orphans to Western families, this is Children's home #6.