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The Best Attractions In Donetsk Oblast

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The Donetsk Oblast , also referred to as Donechyna , is an oblast of eastern Ukraine. It is the most populated oblast, with around 4.5 million residents. Its administrative center is Donetsk; however, its Regional State Administration was temporarily relocated to Mariupol because of the ongoing crisis in Donetsk. Historically, the region is an important part of the Donbas region. Until November 1961, it bore the name Stalino Oblast as Donetsk was then named Stalino, in honour of Joseph Stalin. As part of the De-Stalinization process, it was renamed as its administrative center after Siversky Donets, the main artery of East Ukraine. The oblast is known ...
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The Best Attractions In Donetsk Oblast

  • 3. Park Shcherbakova Donetsk
    Central Park of Culture and Leisure named after Shcherbakov is a recreation park in Donetsk. It is located in Voroshylovskyi Raion, in the west it matches with stadium Shakhtar, and in the north there is the Second city pond. Park was open in 1932. There are rides, playgrounds, alleys for hiking and other recreational facilities available for visitors. The park is named after Alexander Sergeevich Shcherbakov, who was the Secretary of the Donetsk Oblast Party Committee in 1938. However, the original name was different – at first the park was named after Pavel Petrovich Postyshev, but the park was renamed after the last had been arrested.
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  • 4. Sviatohirsk Cave Monastery Sviatohirsk
    The Holy Mountains Lavra is a major Orthodox Christian monastery on the steep right bank of the Seversky Donets River near the city of Sviatohirsk in Donetsk Oblast of eastern Ukraine. The name comes from the surrounding Holy Mountains. Today, the monastery forms the centrepiece of the Sviatohori National Nature Park. The Ukrainian Orthodox Church proclaimed it a lavra in 2004.
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  • 5. Mariupol Art Museum Named After Arkhip Kuindzhi Mariupol
    Mariupol is a city of regional significance in south eastern Ukraine, situated on the north coast of the Sea of Azov at the mouth of the Kalmius river, in the Pryazovia region. It is the tenth-largest city in Ukraine, and the second largest in the Donetsk Oblast with a population of 449,498 . The city is largely and traditionally Russophone, while ethnically the population is divided about evenly between Russians and Ukrainians. Mariupol was founded on the site of a former Cossack encampment named Kalmius and granted city rights in 1778. It has been a centre for the grain trade, metallurgy, and heavy engineering, including the Illich Steel & Iron Works and Azovstal. Mariupol has played a key role in the industrialization of Ukraine. Due to the Soviet authorities frequently renaming cities ...
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  • 7. FC Shakhtar Museum Donetsk
    Olympiacos S.F.P. Football Club , also known simply as Olympiacos, Olympiakos, Olympiacos Piraeus or with its full name as Olympiacos C.F.P. , is a Greek professional football club, part of the major multi-sport club Olympiacos CFP, based in Piraeus, Athens. Olympiacos is the most successful Greek multi-sport club in European and International competitions and one of the most decorated multi-sport clubs in Europe. Their name was inspired from the Ancient Olympic Games and along with the club's emblem, the laurel-crowned Olympics athlete, encompass and symbolise the morality, the honour, the vying, the splendor, the sportsmanship and the fair play value of the Olympic ideal of Ancient Greece.Founded on 10 March 1925, Olympiacos is the most successful club in Greek football history, having w...
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  • 8. The Holy Transfiguration Cathedral Donetsk
    Holy Savior Cathedral , commonly referred to as Ghazanchetsots , is an Armenian Apostolic cathedral in Shusha , in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh . It is the seat of the Diocese of Artsakh of the Armenian Apostolic Church.Built between 1868 and 1887, the cathedral was consecrated in 1888. It was damaged during the March 1920 massacre of Armenians of the city by Azerbaijanis and experienced a decades-long decline under Soviet rule. During the Nagorno-Karabakh War Azerbaijan used the cathedral as an armory, where hundreds of missiles were stored. It was restored in the aftermath of the war and reconsecrated in 1998. A landmark of Shusha and Karabakh, it has become an icon for the Karabakh Armenian cause. Standing 35 metres high, Ghazanchetsots is one of the largest Armenian churches...
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  • 10. Sultan Suleiman Mosque Mariupol
    The Sultan Suleiman Mosque, is located in Mariupol, Ukraine. The mosque is named in honor of Suleiman the Magnificent and Roxelana.
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  • 11. History of the Great Patriotic War Museum Donetsk
    Zaporizhia or Zaporozhye , formerly Alexandrovsk , is a city in southeastern Ukraine, situated on the banks of the Dnieper River. It is the administrative centre of the Zaporizhia Oblast . The city population is the sixth largest in Ukraine. Zaporizhia is known for its island of Khortytsia and hydroelectric power plant DniproHES. It is also important industrial centre producing steel, aluminium, aircraft engines, automobiles, transformers for substations, and other heavy industry goods.
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  • 14. Donbass Liberators Memorial complex Donetsk
    The War in Donbass is an armed conflict in the Donbass region of Ukraine. From the beginning of March 2014, protests by pro-Russian and anti-government groups took place in the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts of Ukraine, commonly collectively called the Donbass, in the aftermath of the 2014 Ukrainian revolution and the Euromaidan movement. These demonstrations, which followed the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation , and which were part of a wider group of concurrent pro-Russian protests across southern and eastern Ukraine, escalated into an armed conflict between the separatist forces of the self-declared Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics , and the Ukrainian government. In the Donetsk People's Republic, from May 2014 until a change of the top leadership in August 2014, some of...
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