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The article focuses on the subject/thematic peculiarities of the Donbass poets’poems included in the collectives of civil lyrics, which were published on the territoriesof the unrecognized Republics in the period from 2014 to 2016. Theformal and meaningful markers of the forming Donbass poetic text have beendiscovered. Donbass lexicode (mine, coal, waste banks, steppe etc.) and regionaltoponymy (the names of the cities, districts and streets) are referred to the formermarker, while the motive complexes connected with the “city”, “country/remote area”, “destruction” concepts are ascribed to the latter one.Having appeared at a time of acute ideological confrontation, Donbass poetry acquiresthe character of a mental, poetic and historical document, it becomes anevidence of time and destinies break-up, and, at the same time, of the formationof a new territorial and ideological community – “my Donbass”.