Shakhty is a city in the Rostov region of Russia, on the rivers Grushevka, Atyuhta, Kadamivka, 26 km from the border with Ukraine, 35 km from the Don River and 68 km from Rostov-on-Don
The city is located in the south-western part of the region, on the south-eastern slopes of the Donetsk ridge. The slightly hilly plain with artificial forest plantations is slightly inclined from the north (175 m) to the south (110 m), cut by the beams and valleys of the Grushevka River - the left-bank tributary of the Tuzlov River, flowing into the Don, Ayuta and Kadamivka. On the territory of the city there are more than twenty different reservoirs. The largest of these is the Artyomovskoye reservoir, more than 2 km in length, created in the late 1920s to cool the turbines of the Shakhtinskaya GRES. Artem. One of the monuments of nature - Lisichkino lake, located in the village of Popovka.
The climate is moderately continental. The average annual temperature is 9.3 ° C. Long summer can be accompanied by a drought, and the spring is dry with east, northeast winds at a speed of 15 m / sec. Precipitation is 400-450 mm. Winter in the Mines lasts two months and, as a rule, comes in the middle of December, with the temperature in January -7 ... -9 degrees. Weather in the winter is unstable, frosts alternate with thaws, fogs, ice, hail, snowstorms are possible. The snow cover is formed in late December - early January. This snow cover rarely lasts more than three weeks, and there are years without a constant snow cover.