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That's right - technology. I was wrong when I said that it was a ghost town. There is a coal mine, an asphalt plant and small light industry enterprises. But where in Soviet times three workers were needed, now one person can cope. And the town withered. There are many such towns where people leave it.The light of urbanization and it's fruit as downfall of villages or small towns... No one wants to work and grind for minimum pay in mines or in cattle farms in village when same can be earned in city with much lesser effort... That's a common problem in all countries, specially in the western and peripheral ones.
People always move out to live at ease, and new people are brought in at times again and again to compensate the lost plowing hands....
Thats why the black slaves were introduced in US to work in farms/ plantation or Indians to certain pacific countries to replace or replenish the vacuum. Thats why now the migrant crisis is happening in West, as it has lost the willing hands to do the basic dirty works which rotates the wheel of society, thanks to declining total population expansion rate and fertility rate to maintain the workforce.
70 years past the middle east was like doormat to the rest of the world though having ocean of crude oil beneath their feet. And now, check, how they live... it's not for only presence of resource, the relevancy needed and technology availability to extract that resource scores a vital point too.
When we restore Donbas (for Russian reparations), we will destroy the entire Soviet economy.
P.S. By the way. Agriculture brings in good money.