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DONETSK
(until 1924 -Yuzivka)
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City and regional centre on the Kalmiyus river, 871 km from Kyiv.
In 1869 Yuzivka, a workers' settlement, was established to provide
manpower for metallurgical plant belonging to an Englishman named D. Yuz
(probably Hughes). In 1924-61 the city name was Stalino.
Population: 1,073,000.
Telephone code: 0622. |
Touring Historic Cities and Villages
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ARTEMIVSK (until 1924 - Bakhmut)
City on the Bakhmutka river, 82 km from Donetsk. Established over 400
years ago. Center of the salt industry. |
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MYKOLAYIVSKA (ST. NICHOLAS') CHURCH, 1789.
On the Bakhmutka river. Wood. |
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VSIKH SVYATYKH CHURCH (ALL SAINTS), Early 20th cent.
Located near the railway station. |
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HORLIVKA
City, 47 km from Donetsk.
Founded in the early 18th cent, on the site of the Zaporozhian Kozaks'
winter quarters and homesteads. The settlement was named after the engineer
P. Horlov. |
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SVYATOPOKROVSKA (PROTECTION) CHURCH, 19th cent.
In the village of Zaytseve. (Take a bus from the Zaytseve railway station).
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MYKOLAYIVSKY (ST. NICHOLAS') CATHEDRAL, 1905.
In the village of Kocheharka. |
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KHOMUTIVSKY STEPPE
Novoazovsky district, 32 km from Mariupol. A branch of the Ukrainian
Steppe Preserve, 1028 ha. It contains more than 500 varieties of steppe
plants. The best time to see the steppe is from mid-May to early June. |
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MAKIYIVKA
City, 15 km from Donetsk.
Established on the site of a former Zaporozhian outpost, by the Kryvyi
Torets river. |
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CHURCH OF ODYHITRIYSKA BOHORODYTSYA (MOTHER OF GOD), 19th-20th cent.
Built in the Byzantine style. According to legend, the miraculous icon of
the Mother of God was painted by Luke the Evangelist. The Byzantine Emperor
Constantine IX Monomakh (1042-54) blessed his daughter with this icon when
she married Prince Vsevolod, son of the Ukrainian prince Yaroslav the Wise.
In the early 12th cent, the son of Vsevolod, Volodymyr Monomakh, transferred
the icon to Smolensk. |
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MARIUPOL
City near the mouth of the Kalmius river, 121 km south of Donetsk.
Founded as Pavlivsk in 1778 at the site of the Domakha Zaporozhian winter
settlement of the 16th cent.; in 1611 it became the center of the large
Kalmius district in the Zaporozhian free lands. In 1779 Greek settlers
renamed it Mariupol; from 1948-90 it was known as Zhdanov.
Population: 600,000.
Telephone code: 0629. |
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SLOVYANOHIRSK
City, Slovyansk district, on the Siversky Donets river, 6 km from the
railway station of the same name.
Population: 600,000. |
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SVYATOHIRSKY (HOLY HILLS) USPENSKY (DORMITION) MONASTERY, 17th-19th
cent.
Located on the right bank of the Siversky Donets river. In the 15th cent,
the monks dug passages through a chalky, rock-filled mountain and built a
church on its peak. Documents dating to 1526, 1538-39, 1541, 1555, and 1571,
mention Svyati Hory as one of the Donets outposts. The monastery was first
mentioned in documents dating to 1624. It was surrounded by walls which
protected the monastery from aggressors. In 1679 the monastery was plundered
by the Crimean Tatars. It was closed in 1783 and reopened in 1844 under the
name Svyatohirska Uspenska Hermitage. The monastery complex includes: the
Mykolayivska (St. Nicholas') Church (17th cent.), Uspensky (Dormition)
Cathedral (1859-60), cells (1887), an underground passage (17th cent.),
Pilgrims' pavilion (19th cent.), towels (19th cent.), refectory, Pokrovska
(Protection) Church and bell tower (1847-51). Since 1922 the monastery has
been used as a rest-home and sanatorium. Restoration and conservation work
was begun by the architect M. Hovdenko in 1963-73. |
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SLOVYANSK (until 1784 - Tor)
City on the Kazenny Torets river, 110 km from the Donetsk railway
station.
Population: approx. 300,000.
First mentioned in documents dating to 1646 as the Kozak fortress Tor. In
the mid-17th cent, it was the center of the salt-mining and salt industry.
In the years 1685-1764 it became a military city of the Izyumsky regiment.
In 1784 renamed Slovyansk. In 1969 a monument to T. Shevehenko was erected
in the city. |
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