The Ukrainian authorities have plans to 2017 close 46 mines in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, said the Director of the division of labor market and employment Ministry of social policy of Ukraine Natalia Zinkevych.

in her expression, in Ukraine the coal industry expects restructuring, for this reason, until 2017 economy of Donbass will reboot and reoriented on other, higher-priority industries.

" in mines, which is expected to close at the moment there are about 22 thousand miners. For their employment, as Well as development of the region, there will be created about 300 thousand new jobs. In Donbas is expected to establish the production of building materials, instrument and mechanical engineering ", - quotes the founder of the Ukrainian magazine " Telegraph ".

Also triggers the production of equipment For energy - saving technologies of heat pumps and solar panels, will develop the field of IT-technologies, agricultural industry, in the field is expected to improve the production and processing of agricultural products.

in General, the programme of job creation and stabilization of employment in the region is designed for 3 years. Today in Donetsk and Lugansk regions registered 265 thousand unemployed, more than half of them have completed secondary education, a quarter of the Supreme.

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