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Admiring the City Monuments
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  • Updated By hunterV on April 3, 2008
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  • Sergey Bubka monument, Donetsk - Donets'k
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    Visiting the city stadium in Artyom Street you can see the statue of Sergey Bubka in front of the stadium.
    Sergey Bubka is a famous Olympic champion, a pole vault jumper, an IOC member, Hero of Ukraine, who lives and works in Donetsk.
    I think this is the only monument to a living Ukrainian hero at present.
    The inscription at the foot of the monument runs, Sergey Bubka, outstanding sportsman of the 20th century, multiple World and Olympic Champion.Joseph Cobzon monument near the “Youth Palace” concert hall in Cheliuskintsev Street is another monument to an outstanding contemporary.
    The monument is very democratic and has no pedestal. The statue’s left hand is well polished by the people who have their photo taken.The monument to Archangel St.Michael located in front of an Orthodox Cathedral in the main street was brought from Kiev where it used to stand in Independence Square, the capital’s main square.Another must-see monument is Lenin monument in Lenin Square. I would say it’s one of the biggest Lenin monuments in Ukraine. Its height is about 15 meters I guess.
    You can approach it from different angles and take a lucky picture of it and the obelisk with Lenin’s words on how important the Donets Basin is.

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  • Address: Artyom Street and Cheliuskintsev Street

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    Exploring Pushkin Boulevard
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  • Pushkin Boulevard, Donetsk, Ukraine - Donets'k
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    Walking along Pushkin Boulevard you will forget you are in a huge industrial city.
    The boulevard is about two kilometers long is a must for visitors of Donetsk.
    This is where you will not miss the enchanting beauty of its downtown.
    You can start behind the Russian Drama Theater at Pushkin bust and proceed to Shevchenko monument.
    The monument to Taras Shevchenko, The Bard of Ukraine (on the picture) stands in front of the Regional Administration building.

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  • Address: Pushkin Boulevard
  • Directions: Behind the Drama Theater, Lenin Square
  • Website: http://donetskpage.h1.ru/

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    Driving and Walking Along Artyom Street
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  • Updated By hunterV on April 4, 2008
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  • The monument to Artyom, Donetsk - Donets'k
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    Walking along Artyom Street, the main city street, downtown you will see this monument to Artyom (Fyodor Sergeyev), an outstanding Soviet Communist leader who lived and worked in the Donets Basin and died in 1921.
    He was revered by the Soviet authorities and is remembered as one of the Soviet "saints" now.Fyodor Andreyevich Sergeyev (Artyom) became the Chairman of the Council of the People’s Commissars (the Prime-Minister) of Donetsk-Kryvyi Rih Socialist Republic (DKSR).
    This republic existed on the map from the end of January till the middle of March 1918. It was a part of the Russian Federation and included Kharkiv Region, Yekaterinolav Region, a part of Kherson Region and the areas of the Russian Don Cossacks.
    This republic became a part of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic on March 19, 1918, but by the middle of April 1918 the whole republic was occupied by German troops according to the Treaty of Brest, a separate peace treaty between the Bolsheviks and Germany.

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    Witness the Unique Copy
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  • Updated By hunterV on January 12, 2008
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  • The Czar Cannon in Donetsk now! - Donets'k
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    Walk along the Calmius embankment and then up to Lenin Square and Artyom Street, the main thoroughfare of the city. You will see a copy of the Czar Cannon that stands in the Kremlin in Moscow.
    This is the exact copy of the Czar Cannon.
    It was commissioned in Izhevsk, Russia, in 2001 and was presented to the people of the Donets Basin as a symbol of the inviolable friendship of the Russian and the Ukrainian peoples.
    The Ukrainian version of the Czar Cannon stands in Artyom Street - the central street of Donetsk.
    Who would have thought that copies of the old unique monuments are possible!

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  • Address: Artyom Street

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    Walking Along the Calmius Embankment
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  • Updated By hunterV on January 12, 2008
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  • The Calmius bridge - Donets'k
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    Why not visit the Calmius Embankment near Constitution Square.
    The city stands on the River Calmius, a southern tributary of the Seversky Donets.
    There is a water reserve on the river. People also try to fish there. There must be some fish for we saw wild ducks and a seagull when we had coffee at “Shell” fish tavern located right at the riverbank.
    There is a tiny city beach to the right of the bridge.

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  • Address: Ilich Street

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    Visiting Orthodox Shrines
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  • Archangel St.Michael in Donetsk - Donets'k
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    Take a look at the monument to Archangel St.Michael that was brought to Donetsk from Kiev. Archangel Michael is the patron saint of the Ukrainian Capital and now it stands in Artyom Street as a symbol of the Ukrainian Renaissance.
    The statue stands in front of an Orthodox Cathedral built recently in the main street.Our cab driver explained to us during our city tour that the cathedral was given a lucky space in the main street. That space had been banned from any construction site for years.
    The thing is the public garden located there was built at the place of a former Nazi cemetery. Several years ago the City Council adopted a resolution the beginning of the construction of a new cathedral, thus destroying all the graves of the Nazis who fell in 1943 when the city was liberated from the invaders by the Soviet Army.

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  • Address: Artyom Street
  • Website: http://www.ortodox.donbass.com/

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    Stand and Ponder
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  • Updated By hunterV on January 8, 2008
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  • Lenin Square in Donetsk - Donets'k
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    You can marvel at some other city monuments:
    Lenin monument in Lenin Square has already been mentioned. It is worth visiting as one of the huge (remaining) Lenin monuments of Ukraine.
    You can also see Taras Shevchenko monument in front of the building of Donetsk Regional Administration in the main street.
    The war memorials deserve special mentioning, among them the Liberators Memorial in the form of a T-34 tank, like in many other Ukrainian towns and cities.
    The monument to the famous Ukrainian opera singer Anatoly Solovyanenko, a native of Donetsk, located near the Opera and Ballet Theater looks very special.

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  • Address: Artyom Street
  • Directions: downtown Donetsk

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    Visiting Coalminers Square
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    Visiting Coalminers Square located at the beginning of the main street is a must for a city visitor too.
    You can see a very special and unique coalminer monument, the new chapel, and watch the busy traffic at that junction.

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  • Address: University Street - Coalminers Square

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    Admiring the Masterpieces
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    If you have some time downtown, especially in summer when it is very hot, you can go to Fine Arts Museum located at 35 Pushkin Boulevard.
    The museum contains 17 halls: Russian and foreign art, mainly copies, but also some originals such as Ivan Shishkin's works and Ivan Aivazovsky's marine landscapes.

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  • Address: 36 Pushkin Boulevard
  • Phone: 92 83 03
  • Directions: The monument to Taras Shevchenko, walk towards the White House and turn left. The building ia at the corner.

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    Foolish men @ obsessive whores
  • By jenix on May 25, 2005
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  • They are nestling the heavens with smoke
    While the ravens are flying
    Over the horse's corpse

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