The streets are covered in a dirty layer of ash, and the horizon is dominated by factory chimneys and slag heaps that are more like mountains. The 140.000 people who live in Enakievo, a city in the east of Ukraine, have grown used to their bleak surroundings. The steel plant may plague the air with black, yellow and blue smoke from its 14 chimneys, but it also provides jobs and income. The coal mines and chemical factories are important drivers of the local economy too, though the financial crisis has hit the region hard. In the south, the tourists are the ones that keeps the economy alive, flocking to the beaches and the Soviet-style hotels.