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FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih Football Club Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih () was a professional Ukraine, Ukrainian Association football, football club based in Kryvyi Rih. Until 2013 the club participated in professional competitions. In June 2013 the club went bankrupt and was expel ...

, the football team in Kryvyi Rih. See also Kryvbas (disambiguation)'' Мine in Kryvyi Rih

Kryvbas (, full name Kryvorizkyi Iron Ore Basin, ) is an important economic and historical region in central

Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...

around the city of

Kryvyi Rih Kryvyi Rih ( uk, Криви́й Ріг , lit. "Curved Bend" or "Crooked Horn"), also known as Krivoy Rog (Russian: Кривой Рог) is the largest city in central Ukraine, the 7th most populous city in Ukraine and the 2nd largest by area. K ...

, specializing in iron ore mining and the

steel industry Steel is an alloy made up of iron with added carbon to improve its strength and fracture resistance compared to other forms of iron. Many other elements may be present or added. Stainless steels that are corrosion- and oxidation-resistant t ...

. It is arguably the main iron ore region of Eastern Europe. Along with Donbas, Kryvbas is a major center of

heavy industry Heavy industry is an industry that involves one or more characteristics such as large and heavy products; large and heavy equipment and facilities (such as heavy equipment, large machine tools, huge buildings and large-scale infrastructure); o ...

in Ukraine. Named after the city of

, the region occupies the southwestern part of the

Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Dnipropetrovsk Oblast ( uk, Дніпропетро́вська о́бласть, translit=Dnipropetrovska oblast), also referred to as Dnipropetrovshchyna ( uk, Дніпропетро́вщина), is an oblast (province) of central-eastern Ukra ...

, as well as a small neighbouring part of the Kirovohrad Oblast in a valley of

Inhulets The Inhulets () is a river, a right tributary of the Dnieper, that flows through Ukraine. It has a length of 557 km and a drainage basin of 14,460 km². The Inhulets has its source in the Dnieper Upland in a ravine (balka) to the we ...

and

Saksahan The Saksahan is a river in Ukraine, in the southeastern part of the Dnieper Upland. It is a left tributary of the Inhulets The Inhulets () is a river, a right tributary of the Dnieper, that flows through Ukraine. It has a length of 557 km ...

rivers (both are tributaries of

Dnieper } The Dnieper () or Dnipro (); , ; . is one of the major transboundary rivers of Europe, rising in the Valdai Hills near Smolensk, Russia, before flowing through Belarus and Ukraine to the Black Sea. It is the longest river of Ukraine and ...

).Pliushch, M., Hruzin, D.V.
Kryvyi Rih Iron Ore Basin (КРИВОРІЗЬКИЙ ЗАЛІЗОРУДНИЙ БАСЕЙН)
'. Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine. 2008 It stretches by a narrow strip (2–7 km) from north to south almost for 100 km from Zhovti Vody (Yellow Waters) to latitudes of the

Kakhovka Reservoir The Kakhovka Reservoir (, ''Kakhovs′ke vodoskhovyshche'') is a water reservoir on the Dnieper River in Ukraine. It was created in 1956, when the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant was built. It is one of several reservoirs in the Dnieper reserv ...

with total area of 300 sq km. The region has major deposits of iron ore and some other metallurgical ores. To exploit them, several large mining companies were founded there in the middle of the 20th century. Most of them are located in Kryvyi Rih.

Kryvorizhstal ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih (former Kryvorizhstal ( uk, Криворіжсталь) is Ukraine's largest integrated steel company, founded in 1934 and located in Kryvyi Rih, in central Ukraine. Bought in 2005 by Mittal Steel, the steel plant is ...

(located in Kryvyi Rih) is the largest and most up-to-date steel company in the region, and in the country. It includes ore facilities and a major steel mill (the only one in the city). Other ore companies supply their raw materials to either Kryvorizhstal or steel mills outside the region. With the exception of Kryvorizhstal, owned by

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, the steel companies of the region are controlled by either Privat Group or SCM. These were once state-owned industries. From the 1990s until 2004, after Ukraine declared independence and worked to establish capitalism, these industries went through difficulties and scandals as they became privatized. A major mining and processing factory was under construction in the early 21st century in the neighboring city of

Dolynska Dolynska () is a city in Kropyvnytskyi Raion, Kirovohrad Oblast (region) of Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Dolynska urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: . It covers . Until 18 July 2020, Dolynska was the administr ...

(Kirovohrad Oblast). This hi-tech project is co-funded by the governments of Ukraine,

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and Slovakia.

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{{Authority control Economy of Ukraine Geography of Kryvyi Rih Economy of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Geography of Kirovohrad Oblast Iron mining in Ukraine

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