Donetsk Facts for Kids

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Donetsk is an important city in the eastern part of Ukraine, in the center of Donbass. Before the War in Donbass, which started 2014, about 1.1 million people lived in the city and its surroundings. Donetsk is important for the industry in Ukraine. Before the war, it was the fifth-biggest city of the country. From 1924 to 1961, the city was called Stalino, before 1924 its name was Jusowka, named after its founder, John Hughes. Hughes founded a metallurgic factory in 1869. The factory soon developed into the city of modern-day Donetsk. Most people in Donetsk use Russian in everyday life. According to a census, about 48 were Ukrainians, and about 46 percent Rusians.

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A Monument for the Liberators of Donbas, dedicated to the soldiers who liberated Donbas from Nazism during World War II.
Referendum organized by the rebels. A line to enter a polling place, 11 May 2014
The spoil tips near the Kalmius. In the background is the Chervonohvardiyskyi raion of Makiivka
Victory Day on May 9, 2013
Congress Hall
Donbas Arena stadium was opened in 2009.
The statue of pole vault legend Serhii Bubka which stands in Donetsk near the RSC Olimpiyskiy.
Donetsk Shevchenko Cinema on Artema Street
Panorama of Artema Street
Donetsk Opera Theatre, 2002
Donbass Palace, 2008
Pushkin Boulevard at night
The Velikobritaniya (English: Great Britain) hotel is one of the oldest buildings in Donetsk, constructed in 1883.
The reconstructed Cathedral of Transfiguration of Jesus in Donetsk.
Tatyana Kravchenko, 2014
Siouzana Melikián, 2007
Natan Sharansky, 2019
Anatoliy Solovianenko, 1984
Viktor Yanukovych, 2010
Lilia Podkopayeva, 2008
Nadezhda Tkachenko, 1980
Donetsk Regional Museum of Art
A Donetsk trolleybus with the Cathedral of Transfiguration in the background.
Tram LM-2008
Donetsk's main railway station, located in the north of the city.
Physics Day in Donetsk National University, 2006
This building was formerly an English-speaking school for the British in Yuzovka
A market on the main street of Novyi Svet section of Yuzovka. (1887)
A German map of the city in 1943. Note that all the streets have been given German names.

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