So, Donetsk - the capital of Donbass. In the recommendations, and it becomes a tradition, I will tell you the main points necessary for a pleasant and comfortable visit to this city. How to get, where to stay, where to eat delicious and inexpensive, what to see. Again, all the conclusions made by me, let alone follow them, or choose your own method - entirely your right. My recommendation in most of the benefit to people who are not ready to travel by private car and stop in the "Donbass Palace" 
To get to the city in different ways: by air, rail, highway. Donetsk - million city, so the lines of communication are developed very, very well. The airport is located in the north of the city, near the bus station Putilov. I do not know about a direct flight from public transportation to the airport (unless someone tells Shakhtar, I'll be very grateful), but if for some reason you can not get there by taxi, it may be advisable to get to Putilov station (or even slightly Stratonavtov down the street before turning to the airport), and there are already on foot. Perhaps the Council of the absurd level, but the situation may be different. The two bus stations: South (actually located in the heart of the city) and Putilov. Here is to be careful. Because if you drive a transit bus, you should clarify on what exactly he comes to the station (the case that comes on two at once). Further, if you drive a transit bus stop somewhere and, for example, the Putilov, it absolutely does not mean that back, you'll also stop at Putilov, and not in the South. Be careful! I concluded that that the long distance buses (Kiev, Yalta, Lviv, etc.) are sent and arrive mainly from the South, and the local inter-area routes, and narrow-minded - from Putilov. The railway station in the city alone. Located in the northwest of the city. I will mention at the same time the structure of the urban transport of Donetsk. Subway no electric transport (trolley buses, trams) in full, "city" buses and bus (from the "Gazelle" to "Bogdan"). -Go to come anywhere no problem. The motion intensive. Hours from 5 am to 10 pm Transportation walks regularly. Beginning with the 22-00, have interruptions may occur. The only "but": vehicles can not cope with passenger traffic, so to see an empty taxi on the streets of Donetsk - is nonsense.
If you plan to stay in Donetsk, a few days (as a reference rather 2-3), then in front of you a question: where to stay. Practical advice I can not give, because I always stayed with friends in Makeyevka (a suburb of Donetsk), as it happens, friends and acquaintances I have lived in various regions of Ukraine, and Russia, too, so problems with the settlement almost never occurs. But some information about hotels in Donetsk I own. In the city of not less than 20 hotels of all kinds-level for the coming football championship Euro-2012 complete construction of another 5-star hotel. Not far from the airport, the hotel is situated "Flight" is a recreation room at the railway / train station, about Putilov and the South will not say exactly, but it can be checked with the administrators. Most of the hotels located in the center. From inexpensive (2-3 stars), I would pick "Friendship" (University Street, 48, opposite the theater, "Star"), "Olympus" (Bogdan Khmelnitsky Avenue, 79, near the "Friendship"), "Dynamo" ( street. Domestic, 10, of the University, between Shchorsa and Rosa Luxemburg). Alternatively, the hotel "Tourist" on the boulevard Shevchenko, 20 (from the monument to Shevchenko down the street). It is worth paying attention to advertising on minibus or advertising pillars. They often write about the opening of the new mini-hotels or apartments rented / rooms hourly or daily.
Settled. If the hotel has a restaurant or cafe, you can go and find out how much in there, there are a pleasant surprise. And you can go out into the street, Artema 17/19 (all the same after a walk around the city) in the remarkable "pancakes", which is adjacent to the mining and Economic College (Industrial College is also a he) is almost opposite the Central Department Store. Set lunch of soup, mashed potatoes with a cutlet and braised cabbage, tea, worth a total of 15 hryvnia. Yes, the Soviet interior dining room, but preparing tasty. However, there is a varied menu, you can find something more expensive. For fans of fast food chains: a "McDonald's" is almost right next to the South Bus Station and the second, "McDonald's" in the town square, but on the contrary - "Puzata hut", I know of two pizzerias "Chellentano" are at the beginning of the street on the boulevard and the University of Pushkin (between the regional administration and the prospect Gurov), "Home Cooking" is located next to a supermarket "White Swan" by Artema street in front of city hall. And the rest - a free choice of the mass of thematic schools, cafes, snack bars and fashionable restaurants.
Soooo, the sweetest topic - where to go and what to see. Center, and once again the center - that's understandable. Artema University and Chelyuskintsev (where there is a place with a gorgeous view of the city, being built right next to "Donbass-Arena"). Streets, avenues and boulevards between them is also noteworthy. For children, if you happen to travel with your family, it will be very interesting trip to the garden forged sculptures for City Council. From the sporting life of the city comes to mind FC "Shakhtar" and an unsurpassed record for pole vaulting Sergey Bubka, the monument which stands in front of the stadium "Olympic". You can kill two birds with one stone: to sit in the stadium, whose platform collect the greatest average number of people per match, watch football and enjoy the monument. Be sure to get on a bridge across the reservoir, I am personally fascinated by such a spectacle. A walk in the park and walk on a pedestrian bridge over the pond in Central Park of Culture and Rest named Shcherbakov. Music and Drama and the Theater of Opera and Ballet are on Artema street in the central area close to each other, the puppet theater on Lenin Avenue, 18 apparently was not impressed. More than a dozen theaters, but only two of the museum - in local history Chelyuskintsev 189a and Art at the Pushkin boulevard, 35. There is also a philharmonic society, circus, a planetarium. A standard set of Here are the temples advise only one (well, a young city, very young): Holy Transfiguration Cathedral in the Artema 129a. The rest were either not seen or are not impressed - the standard small churches.
Well, that's all. And I like Donetsk. City color, colorful, not monotonic. And he is young, and this is felt.
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Tags: Eastern Ukraine , Donetsk , Useful , Regions of Ukraine
June 9, 2009 at 21:24
One thing I just realized for myself - in Donetsk, the driver has nothing to do with little experience of driving! In order not to cause an accident arhimassovogo