Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The Russian spelling of the Ukrainian city Kryvyi Rih. It is a city of around 700,000 in the southern Ukraine, southwest of Dnipropetrovsk, at the confluence of the Inhulets and Saksahan rivers. It is an industrial and metallurgical centre in a iron-mining region. The city extends for 32 km, paralleling the ore deposits. It has one metro line with 4 stations. The settlement was founded in the 17th C. by Zaporozhian Cossacks. But the area's industrial growth began in the 1880s, when European investment founded a mining syndicate. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.