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The city leisure center is officially called Kirov Palace of Culture and is located opposite the City Council building.
There are several societies of amateur activities there, among tehm a young people's dance studio.
Also, you can see a movie or a concert here.
If you go down Kirov Street, you will get to the City Park dedicated in 1933. Leave a Comment
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This is a new cathedral dedicated before the Easter of 2004.
It is located in what we call Southern SettlementThis place is to the left of Zaria circle after you enter the city boundary. Turn left and see the cathedral behind the leisure center that we call palace of culture.
The construction of this new cathedral lasted for three years.
The church is unique as to its architecture – both interior and exterior.
The church was called after the Holy Icon of Pochayiv, a town in Ternopil region where the famous Pochaiv Monastery is located.
The cathedral dean Father Vladimir says there are no such cathedrals in Luhansk region.
There is another cathedral next to this new one. It is called St.Seraphim's Cathedral and is located in the old two-storey building.
St.Nickolas Chapel in Smirnov Street located opposite the city militia headquarters is the newest in Rubizhne.
It was dedicated in January 2009.
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General Ivanov Street is one of the longest in Rubizhne.
It is more than 2.5 kilometers long.
It runs parallel to Detour Road between Kotsiubinsky Street and Mira Street (Peace Street).
The street was called in honor of General Nickolay Ivanov whose division - the 41st Guards Infantry Division - liberated Rubizhne from Nazi invaders on January 31, 1943.
The street was called after General Ivanov in 1967.
There is Ivanov monument at the crossing of Ivanov Street and International Street. Leave a Comment
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Smirnov Street (formerly School Street) is located in the Old Town between Doichev Street and the old city cemetery.
It is 1,385 meters long.Vladimir Smirnov
(May 20, 1954, - July 29, 1980) is our famous fellow countryman.
He was born in Rubizhne.
By the way, he finished the same school as me: School #3.
What’s more, I was priviled to see him once when a schoolboy. He came to his former school to attend the traditional school-leavers party on the first Saturday of February, 1975.
We all rushed to the gym where the party was taking place to see the famous champion.
Vladimir Smirnov was a fencing champion.
He became an Olympic champion in fencing during the 22nd Olympic Games in Moscow.
During the sdeventeen years of his sporting career he set eleven world records and received 160 medals.
He died in July 1980 after he was mortally wounded by a German fencer Matheus Behr whose foil broke, but he continued fencing and hit Vladimir Smirnov right into his eye with his broken foil. Smirnov died at the Vatican hospital nine days after he got his terrible wound.
Vladimir Smirnov was buried at Lukianovo Cemetery in Kiev. There is a bronze Smirnov monument in Moscow.
Smirnov Street appeared in Rubizhne on September 16, 1988 when School Street was renamed into Smirnov Street.
Now there is Smirnov monument opposite the militia administration building in Smirnov Street. Leave a Comment
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 At the beginning of Lenin
Street, Rubizhne by hunterV, 4 more photos
in Lenin Street
opposite School #6
in the area of Lenin monument.
This part of the city was built in the fifties.
In 1955 Khrushchov's government adopted a decree on struggle against “architectural excesses”.
Stalin era designing and architecture were declared as wasteful and extravagant.
The Resolution of the Communist Party Central Committee and the USSR Cabinet of Ministers “On elimination of excesses in designing and construction” dated November 5, 1955 declared all architectural masterpieces of Stalin era as extravagant and wasteful and blamed the architects for their approach.
The afterwar Empire Style was banned and the architects started building boxes (hiow we called them) instead of original and inimitable houses.
"Democratic" Nikita Khrushchov regarded Stalin era construction extravagance as out of place and lacking economic discipline. Leave a Comment
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If you find yourself in the Old Town
especially in such streets as
Kalinin Street,
Academician Pomeranchuke Street,
Students' Street
and Lenin Street, you will see how the city developed.
Lenin Street is an example of the city development.
It starts with old one-floor mansions or two-floor dormitory-like apartment houses built in the twenties and ends with the only 14-floor apartment house in the city built in 1992. Leave a Comment
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 "5 in 4" apartment house,
Students' Street by hunterV, 4 more photos
The three-storey apartment house up the street has a Stalin era inscription 5 B 4which means 5 in 4, that is, "We will fulfil the five-year plan
in four years! It was a very popular slogan of the first Stalin era five-year plans.
If you walk further down the street, you will see an area with one-floor mansions built in 1945-1950 by German POWs who were held captive in Rubizhne.
The houses have "German design". Leave a Comment
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Cannon of Rubizhne is located in Liberators Street.
It commemorates the heroic feet of the liberators of the city in 1943 when the city was liberated from the Nazi invaders.
There are four square bas-reliefs at the obelisk of Cannon of Rubizhne representing different symbols of the war. Leave a Comment
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I am sorry our old Leisure Center that was called Kirov Palace of Culture lies in ruins.
You can't miss it if you walk down Kirov Street and then farther to Smirnov Street.
But, please, now it's too late to explore it: the building is falling apart after local bums have "processed it".
This huge building dates back to 1934.
It must have been a great site for its time.
Its wall reach the height of a modern nine-storey aoartment or even higher.
It was built of local bricks manufactured in Rubizhne and represented the Triumph of the Stalin EraI remember going there when a schoolboy. I went to the movies, to the library or to see a new play or listen to a new concert.
Its Big Hall was a masterpiece of Soviet architecture. Leave a Comment
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 Exploring the architecture,
Kirov Street, Rubizhne by hunterV, 4 more photos
apartment houses on both sides of the street.
They are mostly three-storeyed apartment houses made of local bricks.
I am sorry our main entrance to the city park has long been scavanged, then fixed and then savagely scavanged again.
You have to walk past this scavanged antrance if your aim is Caesar Cafe or St.George's Cathedral.
Also I am sorry the local authorities do not find any means to restore the Old Glory in the city park. Leave a Comment
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