Donets

Donets was a fortified Rus' town on the high bank of the Udy, near the site of later Kharkiv. Its earthworks guarded a settlement at the edge of the forest-steppe. The Hypatian Chronicle mentions the town in 1185, when Prince Ihor Sviatoslavych of Novhorod-Siverskyi reached it after escaping captivity among the Cumans. Archaeological remains show an earlier Slavic settlement and the later defences of the Rus' town.