Kuibyshevskyi District, Donetsk

Kuibyshevskyi District (Ukrainian: Куйбишевський район, Russian: Куйбышевский район) is an urban district of the city of Donetsk, Ukraine, named after a Soviet political figure Valerian Kuybyshev.

Kuibyshevskyi District

Куйбишевський район
Urban district
Country Ukraine
OblastDonetsk Oblast
Area
 • Total51 km2 (20 sq mi)
Population
 • Total118,157
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
Districts of Donetsk on the territory of the Donetsk City Municipality:
  Budonivskyi District
  Voroshylovskyi District
  Kalininskyi District
  Kyivskyi District
  Kirovskyi District
  Kuibyshevskyi District
  Leninskyi District
  Petrovskyi District
  Proletarskyi District

It was created in 1937 as one of the first six original city districts. It is located at the northwestern part of the city.

Residential neighborhoods
Multi-storey developments
  • Mahistralnyi
  • Industrialnyi
  • Azotnyi
  • Zhylkop
  • Karier
  • Hirnyk
  • Flora
  • Zhovtneve
  • Topaz
  • Ploshcha Bakynskykh Komisariv
Settlements
  • Smolyanka
  • Zhovtneve
  • Khimik
  • Chervonyi Pakhar
  • Hrabary
  • Lozivske
  • Administratyvnyi
  • Hirnyk

Industry
  • Mines
    • Zhovtnevyi Rudnyk coal mine (part of the Donetsk Coal Power Company), flooded by militants of the Donetsk People's Republic[1]
    • Kuibyshevska mine (part of the production association Donetskvuhillya), closed down
    • Maksim Gorky mine (part of the production association Donetskvuhillya)
    • Panfilovska mine (under the Mine Liquidation Administration), closed down
  • Donetsk Coke-Production Factory, closed down
  • Donbas Cable
  • Topaz Factory, a military production factory with a design bureau of radio-technical instruments (among its products is Kolchuga passive sensor) in 2016 relocated to Russia by militants of the Donetsk People's Republic
  • Donetsk Factory of chemical agents
  • Donetsk Factory of chemical products

Places
  • Topaz Factory
  • Kuibyshev monument
  • Greek Catholic Church, 2009
  • Church of Christ the Savior
  • Temple of St.Ignatius (Ukrainian Orthodox Church (MP)), 2008
  • St.Vladimir Church, 2009
  • Sports Complex Olimp

Notable people

References
  1. War in Donetsk: in a settlement of Zhovtnevyi Rudnyk for the fourth year is a zone of alienation (Война в Донецке: в поселке шахты "Октябрьская" четвертый год – зона отчуждения с концертами). Segodnya. 30 May 2017


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