in the campaign “Industrial Colonization and Resource Exploitation of the South (1890)”
The mass importation of labor from the Russian governorates, altering the demographic balance: "in 1892, 80 percent of the workforce at the mines and plants of Yuzivka, one of Ukraine's industrial towns, had arrived from the Moscow region"[1]. "Among the workers and miners of the Donbas, ethnic Russians from Central Russia predominated… The rural population of the Donbas was mostly ethnically Ukrainian"[2].