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In the article the peculiarities of the sociolinguistic situation in Donetchina have been examined, and a comparison of the varied sociolinguistic portraits of the cities of Amvrosiyivka, Yenakievo, Shakhtarsk with the general contemporary language situation in the Donetsk region has been made. In addition, using the census, the dynamics of the national language of the study population has been traced. A sociolinguistic portrait of these Donbass cities enabled the detection of territorial inclusions, asymmetric to the general language situation, with an opposition between city/small town.