 The area of the city is 46 km².Druzhkivka is a city located near the confluence of the Kryvyi Torets and Kazennyi Torets rivers, about 80 km to the North-East from the regional center - Donetsk.Historical records indicate that a settlement named Druzhkivka was established in this area by 1781 A.D. From the late 19th through the 20th century, Druzhkivka grew into a mid-size industrial city with several large factories producing mining equipment and machinery, hardware, kitchen stoves, china tableware and bricks, as well as several clay-extracting quarries in the city's vicinity.