Kuibyshevskyi District

Kuibyshevskyi District is an urban district of the city of Donetsk, Ukraine, named after a Soviet political figure Valerian Kuybyshev. It was created in 1937 as one of the first six original city districts. It is located at the northwestern part of the city.

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Type: Borough with 118,000 residents
Description: administrative raion of Donetsk city
Also known as: “Kuibyshevskyi District, Donetsk” and “Kuibyshevskyi Raion”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Shakhtar and Donetsk Regional Art Museum.

Shakhtar

Stadium

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Central Stadium Shakhtar is a multi-purpose stadium that is located in the Shcherbakov Central Park, in Voroshylovskyi District, Donetsk, Ukraine. The stadium is located right next to the Gorky Coal Mine, and one of its tailings was sometimes used to watch matches.

Donetsk Regional Art Museum

Museum

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Donetsk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre named after A. Solovyanenko

Theater building

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Donetsk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre named after A. Solovyanenko was established in 1932 in Donetsk on the basis of fit-up theatre of Right-bank Ukraine.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Donetsk and Hladkivka.

Donetsk

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Donetsk, formerly known as Aleksandrovka, Yuzivka, Stalin, and Stalino, is an industrial city in eastern Ukraine located on the Kalmius River in Donetsk Oblast, which is currently occupied by Russia as the capital of the Donetsk People's Republic.