Donetsk

Donetsk, formerly known as Aleksandrovka, Yuzivka, Stalin, and Stalino, is an industrial city in eastern located on the River in , which is currently occupied by as the capital of the Donetsk People's Republic.
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  • Type: City with 929,000 residents
  • Description: city in Ukraine
  • Also known as: “Aleksandrovka”, “Donbas City”, “Donețc”, “Donetsbassenget”, “Donetsko”, “Donetz”, “Donezstadt”, “Donjetsk”, “Donyeck”, “Donyetsk”, “Gorod milliona roz”, “Hjuzovka”, “Hughesovka”, “Iouzovka”, “Jousofka”, “Jusow”, “Jusowka”, “Juzovka”, “Juzowka”, “Stalin”, “Staļina”, “Stalino”, “Stálino”, “Staljino”, “Sztaline”, “Sztalino”, “Yuzov”, “Yuzovka”, “Yúzovka”, “Yuzovo”, “Ντόνετσκ”, “Александровка”, “Сталин”, “Сталін”, “Сталіна”, “Троцьк”, “Юзаўка”, “Юзово”, “דונייצק”, “יוזובקה”, “סטאלינו”, “סטלינו”, “استالینو”, “دنتسك”, “دونتسك”, “یوتسیفکا”, “โดเนตสก์”, “도네치크”, “스탈리노”, “スターリノ”, “ドニェツク”, “ドニエツク”, “ドネーツィク”, “ドネーツク”, and “ドネチク”
  • Historically known as: “Iuzov” and “Iuzovka”
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Places of Interest

Highlights: Donetsk Regional Art Museum and Donetsk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre named after A. Solovyanenko.

Museum
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Theater building
Photo: Podvalov, GPL.
was established in 1932 in Donetsk on the basis of fit-up theatre of Right-bank Ukraine.

Park
Photo: Роман Донецкий, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hladkivka and 5th Uchastok.

Suburb
Photo: skhakirov, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a suburb.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Donetsk

Latitude
48.0159° or 48° 0′ 57″ north
Longitude
37.8013° or 37° 48′ 5″ east
Population
929,000
Elevation
223 metres (732 feet)
Established
1779
IATA airport code
DOK
UN/LOCODE
UA DOK
Open location code
8GWV2R82+8G
Open­Street­Map ID
node 39682896
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
709717
Wiki­data ID
Q43070
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Donetsk” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Donetsk”
  • Albanian: “Donecki”
  • Albanian: “Donecku”
  • Arabic: “دونيتسك”
  • Aragonese: “Donetsk”
  • Armenian: “Դոնեցկ”
  • Asturian: “Donetsk”
  • Azerbaijani: “Donetsk”
  • Bashkir: “Донецк”
  • Basque: “Donetsk”
  • Bavarian: “Donezk”
  • Belarusian: “Данецк”
  • Bengali: “দোনেৎস্ক”
  • Bosnian: “Donjeck”
  • Breton: “Donetsk”
  • Bulgarian: “Донецк”
  • Burmese: “ဒိုနက်စ်”
  • Catalan: “Donetsk”
  • Cebuano: “Donets’k”
  • Central Kurdish: “دۆنێتسک”
  • Chechen: “Донецк”
  • Chinese: “頓內次克”
  • Chinese: “頓涅茨克”
  • Chinese: “顿涅茨克”
  • Chuvash: “Донецк”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Donetsk”
  • Croatian: “Doneck”
  • Croatian: “Donjeck”
  • Czech: “Doněck”
  • Danish: “Donetsk”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Donetsk”
  • Dutch: “Donetsk”
  • Eastern Mari: “Донецк”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “دونييتسك”
  • Erzya: “Донецк ош”
  • Erzya: “Донецкой ош”
  • Esperanto: “Donecko”
  • Estonian: “Donetsk”
  • Faroese: “Donetsk”
  • Finnish: “Donetsk”
  • French: “Donetsk”
  • Galician: “Donetsk”
  • Georgian: “დონეცკი”
  • German: “Donezk”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Donetsk”
  • Greek: “Ντονέτσκ”
  • Gujarati: “ડોનેટ્સ્ક”
  • Hausa: “Donetsk”
  • Hebrew: “דונצק”
  • Hindi: “डोनेट्स्क”
  • Hungarian: “Doneck”
  • Hungarian: “Juzivka” (historical)
  • Icelandic: “Donetsk”
  • Ido: “Doneck”
  • Ido: “Donetsk”
  • Igbo: “Donetsk”
  • Indonesian: “Donetsk”
  • Interlingue: “Donetsk”
  • Italian: “Donec’k”
  • Japanese: “ドネツィク”
  • Japanese: “ドネツク”
  • Javanese: “Donetsk”
  • Kalaallisut: “Donetsk”
  • Kannada: “ಡೊನೆಸ್ಟ್ಸ್”
  • Kannada: “ಡೋಣೆಟ್ಸ್ಕ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Doneck”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Donetsk”
  • Kazakh: “Донецк”
  • Kirghiz: “Донецк”
  • Komi: “Донецк”
  • Korean: “도네쯔크”
  • Korean: “도네츠크”
  • Kotava: “Donetsk”
  • Kurdish: “Donetsk”
  • Ladin: “Donetsk”
  • Latin: “Donetsk”
  • Latin: “Fornaces”
  • Latvian: “Donecka”
  • Latvian: “Doņecka”
  • Limburgan: “Donetsk (sjtad)”
  • Limburgan: “Donetsk”
  • Lithuanian: “Doneck”
  • Lithuanian: “Doneckas”
  • Lombard: “Donec’k”
  • Luxembourgish: “Donezk”
  • Macedonian: “Донецк”
  • Malagasy: “Donetsk”
  • Malay: “Donetsk”
  • Malayalam: “ഡൊണെറ്റ്സ്ക്”
  • Maltese: “Donetsk”
  • Manx: “Donetsk”
  • Marathi: “दोनेत्स्क”
  • Mingrelian: “დონეცკი”
  • Moksha: “Донэ‎цьк”
  • Moksha: “Донэцьк”
  • Mongolian: “Донецк хот”
  • Mongolian: “Донецк”
  • Northern Frisian: “Donetsjk (Steed)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Donetsjk”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Donetsk”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Donetsk i Ukraina”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Donetsk”
  • Norwegian: “Donetsk”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Donetzk”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Hughesofka”
  • Ossetian: “Донецк”
  • Papiamento: “Donietsk”
  • Persian: “دونتسک”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Donetsk”
  • Polish: “Donieck”
  • Pontic: “Ντονέτσκ”
  • Portuguese: “Donetsk”
  • Romanian: “Donețk”
  • Russia Buriat: “Донецк”
  • Russian: “Город миллиона роз”
  • Russian: “Донецк”
  • Russian: “Сталино” (historical)
  • Russian: “Юзовка” (historical)
  • Rusyn: “Донецьк”
  • Scots: “Donetsk”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Donetsk (Donetska Oblast)”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Donetsk”
  • Serbian: “Доњецк”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Donjeck”
  • Sicilian: “Donetsk”
  • Silesian: “Dońeck”
  • Silesian: “Důńeck”
  • Sinhala: “ඩොනෙට්ස්ක්”
  • Slovak: “Doneck”
  • Slovenian: “Doneck”
  • South Azerbaijani: “دونتسک”
  • Spanish: “Donetsk”
  • Swahili: “Donetsk”
  • Swedish: “Donetsk”
  • Tagalog: “Donetsk”
  • Tajik: “Донетск”
  • Talysh: “Donetsk”
  • Tamil: “தோனெத்ஸ்க்”
  • Tatar: “Донецк”
  • Telugu: “డొనెట్స్క్”
  • Telugu: “డొనెస్క్”
  • Thai: “ดอแนตสก์”
  • Thai: “โดเนตสค์”
  • Turkish: “Donetsk”
  • Turkmen: “Donesk”
  • Twi: “Donetsk”
  • Udmurt: “Донецк”
  • Ukrainian: “Dinetsk” (historical)
  • Ukrainian: “Dinetske” (historical)
  • Ukrainian: “Donbas-siti”
  • Ukrainian: “Donetske”
  • Ukrainian: “Iuziv” (historical)
  • Ukrainian: “Iuzivka” (historical)
  • Ukrainian: “Iuzove” (historical)
  • Ukrainian: “Kalhorod”
  • Ukrainian: “Kalok”
  • Ukrainian: “Misto miliona troiand”
  • Ukrainian: “Misto milyona troyand”
  • Ukrainian: “Oleksandrivka” (historical)
  • Ukrainian: “Shakhtarska stolytsia”
  • Ukrainian: “Shakhtarska stolytsya”
  • Ukrainian: “Solov’ianenkove”
  • Ukrainian: “Solov’yanenkove”
  • Ukrainian: “Solovianenkove”
  • Ukrainian: “Solovyanenkove”
  • Ukrainian: “Yuziv” (historical)
  • Ukrainian: “Yuzove” (historical)
  • Ukrainian: “Дінецьк” (historical)
  • Ukrainian: “Дінецьке” (historical)
  • Ukrainian: “Донбас-сіті”
  • Ukrainian: “Донецьк”
  • Ukrainian: “Донецьке”
  • Ukrainian: “Калгород”
  • Ukrainian: “Калок”
  • Ukrainian: “Місто мільйона троянд”
  • Ukrainian: “Олександрівка” (historical)
  • Ukrainian: “Солов’яненкове”
  • Ukrainian: “Сталіне” (historical)
  • Ukrainian: “Сталіно” (historical)
  • Ukrainian: “Шахтарська столиця”
  • Ukrainian: “Юзів” (historical)
  • Ukrainian: “Юзівка” (historical)
  • Ukrainian: “Юзове” (historical)
  • Upper Sorbian: “Doneck”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Donjeck”
  • Urdu: “دونیتسک”
  • Uzbek: “Donetsk”
  • Veps: “Doneck”
  • Vietnamese: “Donetsk”
  • Vlax Romani: “Donetsk”
  • Volapük: “Donäzk”
  • Volapük: “Donetsk”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Donetsk”
  • Welsh: “Donetsk”
  • Western Armenian: “Տոնեցք”
  • Western Frisian: “Donetsk”
  • Western Panjabi: “دونیتسک”
  • Wu Chinese: “顿涅茨克”
  • Yakut: “Донецк”
  • Yiddish: “דאנעצק”
  • Yue Chinese: “頓涅茨克”
  • “Donetsk”
  • “Донецк”

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Places to explore: Кам’янка and Hladkivka.

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