Rubizhne Travel Guide

 hunterV Says:  We enjoyed our walk around the completed cathedral during the celebration of Shrovetide in March 2011.The architecture is really unique.The project stands out for its staircase on the outer wall of the building. You can't go up the staircase: there is a lock at the entrance... 

 hunterV Says:  There are still several Lenin monuments in Rubizhne.They have remained untouched whereas their "counterparts" in similar towns and cities of Western Ukraine have long been demolished. Does it mean we are more tolerant here and merely have more patience and more respect... 

 hunterV Says:  Like in Luhansk and any other city of Ukraine, stray dogs are a problem in the city. There are dozens of them in the city streets and lanes, especially inside the blocks of apartment houses where they look for food.Use the same common sense as you would in any big city.A... 

 hunterV Says:  Rudenko Street was called after Nickolay Rudenko (1907-1983), the Hero of the Soviet Union, a native of Rubizhne.He used to live in the house number 2 in this street that was called Budyonny Street before.The street connects Pushkin Street and Academician Pomeranchuke... 

 hunterV Says:  One day when we hired a cab our cab driver took us to the architectural gem of Rubizhne as he said - to so-called Teacher's House in Kalinin Street.Teachers' House is located in the Old Town at the intersection of Kalinin Street and Academician Pomeranchuke Street. It was... 

 hunterV Says:  Several streets in Rubizhne were named in honor of famous fellow countrymen.Chernopashchenko Street runs parallel to Embankment Street in the area of the railway station.It was called in honor of Air Force Captain Vassily Yevgrafovich Chernopashchenko who was born in... 

 hunterV Says:  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 was the start of building faceless boxes as we used to call them, instead of the awe-inspiring... 

 hunterV Says:  If you walk down Kirov Street from Bohdan Khmelnitsky Street towards the main entrance to the city park, you can see samples of the Empire style apartment houses on both sides of the street.They are mostly three-storeyed apartment houses made of local bricks.I am sorry our... 

 hunterV Says:  You can see a number of Stalin era apartment houses 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... 

 hunterV Says:  Students' Street also starts in the Old Town and leads to the new districts with nine-storey apartment houses.This three-storey apartment house at 4 Students Street has a Stalin era inscription 5 B 4, which means 5 in 4, that is, "We will fulfil the five-year plan in four... 

 hunterV Says:  Palace of Sports is very popular with young people.It is located in Bohdan Khmelnitsky Street and offers a lot of sports sections.Here is a youtube video about the Palace of Sports. The city Palace of Sports belongs to a nearby technical school now. 

 hunterV Says:  The central city street...It's hard to say what street it is.There are three streets forming downtown Rubizhne:- Mendeleyev Street;- Bohdan Khmelnitsky Street that runs parallel to Mendeleyev Street ;- Kirov Street,- Liberators' Street- Lenin Street The last three streets...