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35 unusual facts about Donetsk


Anatoliy Tynynyk

Evhen Apryshko began his football career in Olympik Donetsk in Donetsk.

Assol

Assol Katerina Igorivna Gumenyuk Ukrainian Катерина Ігорівна Гуменюк) (born July 4, 1994 in Kiev, Ukraine) is a popular child singer from Donetsk, Ukraine.

Bohdan Butko

Upon completion of the school, Butko was promoted first to Shakhtar-3 Donetsk of the Ukrainian Second League, followed by the Shakhtar reserves, where he would spend three seasons.

Burnel Okana-Stazi

Okana Stazi is married with a Ukrainian lady, and the couple live in Donetsk, Ukraine.

By Dawn's Early Light

Renegade Soviet military officers steal a nuclear missile, launching it at the Soviet city of Donetsk from Turkey.

Denys Sokolovskyi

Denys Sokolovskyi (born 26 March 1979 in Donetsk) is a retired Ukrainian professional football player who played for several clubs in Europe, including FC Metalurh Donetsk and FC Vorskla Poltava in the Ukrainian Premier League, Panionios FC in the Greek Superleague and Pogoń Szczecin the Polish Ekstraklasa.

Dmytro Chygrynskiy

He was a player in the UFK Lviv youth system before moving to Donetsk at the age of 14, completing his development at the Shakhtar academy.

On 6 July 2010, the 23-year-old centre-back signed a five-year deal to return to his former club Shakhtar Donetsk for a fee of €15 million, making Shakhtar a profit of €10 million.

Dmytro Nazarenko

He would next spend 2.5 years with his hometown club FC Metalurh Donetsk, appearing in two Ukrainian Premier League and a few UEFA Cup matches.

Dmytro Oleksandrovych Voloshyn

Dmytro Voloshyn began his football career in Olimpik-UOR youth club in Donetsk.

Donald Fairbairn

He currently teaches part-time as a professor of Historical Theology at Evangelische Theologische Faculteit in Leuven and as a professor of Theology at Donetsk Christian University in Donetsk.

Eduard Ismailov

Eduard Ismailov began his football career in Shakhtar Youth in Donetsk.

Evhen Apryshko

Evhen Apryshko began his football career in UOR Donetsk in Donetsk.

FK Kukësi

In 1 August 2013, FK Kukësi won in Tirana with the result 2-0 and in 8 August 2013 FK Kukësi lost in Donetsk with the result 1-0.

In the Third qualifying round, FK Kukësi eliminated Metalurg Donetsk.

Flavius Stoican

He played four years for Shakhtar and moved to FC Metalist Kharkiv where he did not find a place in the team and he moved back for a year to Dinamo București.

Heather Oakes

In 1977, as Heather Hunte, she finished fourth in the 100 m final at the European Junior Championships in Donetsk, being edged out of a medal by teammate Kathy Smallwood (11.71 - 11.72).

Hero of Ukraine

A district administrative court in Donetsk, Ukraine cancelled the presidential decree on 2 April 2010, that had granted the Hero of Ukraine title to Bandera.

Igor Lolo

After one season in Donetsk, he chose to come back to Belgium and was signed by K.F.C. Germinal Beerschot.

Ihor Lytovchenko

Was born on May 10, 1966 in Donetsk, but a few years later the family moved to Kiev.

Ihor Tolstykh

In September 1991 he became the deputy editor of the business newspaper Contact in the Eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk.

Jeremain Lens

On the 6th of October 2013, Lens scored his first 2 goals in the Ukrainian premiere league in a crushing 9-1 victory over FC Metalurh Donetsk.

Karsten Warholm

In the 2013 World Youth Championships in Athletics in Donetsk, Ukraine, he won gold in Boys' octathlon with 6451 points, a personal best.

Lorenzo Ebecilio

His contract with Ajax ran until the summer of 2014, taking a three-year contract with the Ukrainian club from Donetsk.

Maksym Malyshev

Malyshev after playing for FC Shakhtar Donetsk reserves team and FC Shakhtar-3 Donetsk from February 2013 plays on loan for FC Zorya .

Martti Välikangas

After qualifying Välikangas worked in Yuzovka in Russia (present-day Donetsk in the Ukraine), but had to leave in a hurry with the onset of the Bolshevik Revolution.

Mircea Lucescu

On 29 May 2009 Lucescu was granted the title "Honorary citizen of Donetsk" by the city council of Donetsk for "earning the UEFA Cup, development and popularization of the Ukrainian football, improvement of the Donetsk, Donetsk region and Ukraine authority in the world".

Oleksandr Aliyev

He played in most of the games, helping Dynamo get to the semi-finals, where they were eliminated by fellow Ukrainian rivals, and eventual UEFA Cup Champions Shakhtar Donetsk.

Pavlo Klymets

Pavlo Anatoliyovych Klymets (ukr. Павло Анатолійович Климець, born in 1967, 23 July, Donetsk) — is a Ukrainian politician, entrepreneur.

Roman Sanzhar

On December 2012 Sanzhar announced his retirement and became the assistant coach for the Ukrainian First League club FC Olimpik Donetsk.

Tsar Cannon

It was given to the Ukrainian city of Donetsk and now is installed near the Donetsk city administration building.

Valeri Kikta

Valeri Kikta (October 22, 1941, in Vladmirovka, a village near Donetsk, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian classical composer.

Viktor Bannikov Memorial Tournament

In 2008 the games of the U-16 international tournament were played at stadiums in Donetsk and Mariupol.

Yuri Kara

Yuri Kara was born on 12 November 1954 in the Ukrainian city of Stalino, which is now called Donetsk.

Yuri Viktorovich Kara (Russian: Юрий Викторович Кара), born on 12 November 1954 in Stalino, is a Russian film director, screenwriter and producer.


2013 World Youth Championships in Athletics

The five-day competition will take place between 10–14 July at the RSC Olimpiyskiy stadium in Donetsk, Ukraine.

Alexander Yagubkin

Alexander G. Yagubkin (25 March 1961 in Donetsk, Ukrainian SSR – 7 August 2013) was an amateur boxer, who won a gold medal at the 1982 World Amateur Boxing Championships and was honoured as a Master of Sports of the USSR.

Artyomovsk

Artemivsk, Donetsk Oblast (Artyomovsk), a town in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine

Donetsk Metro

In 2012 the Vice-Prime-Minister Borys Kolesnikov informed the President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych that Ukrzaliznytsia is starting to work on the project of ground-level metro in Donetsk.

Jaheel Hyde

He won a gold medal in the 110 m hurdles at the 2013 World Youth Championships in Athletics in Donetsk, Ukraine, setting a new championship record for the event and coming .01 seconds shy of tying the World Youth Best held by Wilhem Belocian.

Pontic Greek

Pontic is still spoken by large numbers of people in Ukraine: mainly Mariupol, but also other places in Ukraine such as Odessa and Donetsk, Russia (around Stavropol) and Georgia.

Pukka Pies England Band

At UEFA Euro 2012, the band were not permitted to perform at England's game against France in the Donbass Arena in Donetsk, Ukraine, despite having UEFA approval.

Volodymyr Shcherban

As a member of the Liberal Party of Ukraine (LPU), Shcherban was elected once again from the Donetsk region electoral district N41 in 1998 joining in the parliament the parliamentary group "Independents".

Yurik Vardanyan

The following year, Vardanyan moved up to middle-heavyweight for a competition in Donetsk, in which he set all the division's world records, but decided to move back down to light heavyweight for the World and European Championships in Lille.

Žydrūnas

Žydrūnas Urbonas (born 1976), professional basketball player currently playing in Ukrainian championship for BC Donetsk