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Donetsk - Culture

Today Donetsk is an administrative centre of Donetsk region of the Ukraine. It is a major industrial, scientific and cultural centre; an important node of railway, road and air lines.

Nowadays city industrial enterprises cover one sixth of gross industrial output of Donetsk region. In Donetsk there are about 150 industrial enterprises and production amalgamations, over 150 construction associations, more than 2,000 establishments and organizations of other branches, employing about 550,000 people.

Over 20 million metric tons of A-grade coal, about 1.6 million metric tons of iron and more than 1.7 million metric tons of rolled and cast metal products are only part of the average annual output of this industrial city.

Donetsk is also famous for its scientific achievements. Its educational institutions prepare high-skilled specialists not only for various branches of internal economy, but also for various developing countries. Donetsk scientists are engaged in solving vital problems science is facing today, their efforts are directed by Donetsk Scientific Centre under Ukrainian Academy of Sciences.

Donetsk today boasts 3 theatres, a Philharmonic Society, a circus, a planetarium,
80 palaces of culture, clubs and movie-theatres, 29 museums and 500 libraries.

The city is famous for its athletes. Its stadiums and sporting grounds are often places for local and international athletic meetings.

Donetsk has become one of Ukrainian most beautiful cities. It is well known as "city of million roses" and it is really so. Actually Donetsk is the greenest highly-industrial city of the whole world.

Within the city there are several small rivers flowing from north to south. If you look at them from west to east, the first river is Asmolovka. From its three springs near farm "Shyroky" it stretches 13 km to Kalmius.
Another river - Cherepashkina - is about 23km long, it starts not far from Ruchenkovo railway station and flows in gully. Skomoroshka goes through the railway station Donetsk. And Bakhmutka is born from underground waters close to railway station Donetsk-2 and flows in Smolyaninovy waterway. On its way to the Central Recreation Park named after A.S.Shcherbakov there is a cascade of reservoirs - the city ponds.

All these small rivers flow in to Kalmius, which starts in neighbouring Yasinovatsky region and goes to Azov Sea crossing some 200 kilometers. It divides Donetsk into two parts. In the central part of the city the river is barred by a dam, having created Kalmius reservoir with an area of about 60 hectares. Below the village of Avdotieno in Leninsky district Kalmius water volume is enriched, rendering it a rather full-flowing river.

Donetsk was formed from different villages that later became regions of this industrial city. In place of the old, single story dwellings, new multi-story buildings have arisen. The overall area of the city is 381 sq.km, stretching for 55 km from east to west and for 28 km from north to south .

Industrial Donetsk is a beautiful modern city. Its broad vista is marked by wide streets, comfortable boulevards, expansive squares, distinctive complexes consisting of apartment and social buildings and a bright spectrum of colorful facades.
Donetsk has 21 squares and 2220 streets, prospects, boulevards and alley-ways, the total length of which is 2500 kilometres.
In 1978, a group of architects and builders was awarded the State Prize of the USSR for their work in building the centre of Donetsk.

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