About Donetsk

Donetsk is a city in eastern Ukraine on the Kalmius River. Administratively, it is a center of Donetsk Oblast, while historically it is the unofficial capital and largest city of the Donets Basin region, or Donbass. The city's name is often simplified to Donetsk.

Donetsk has 1,131,700 inhabitants; the metropolitan area has 1,566,000 inhabitants. It is the fourth-largest city in Ukraine. Donetsk and the surrounding territories are heavily urbanized and agglomerated into conurbation. The workforce is heavily involved with heavy industry, especially coal mining, but the city is very green and lightly-polluted for being a major industrial city. Donetsk has one of the highest standards of living in the region.

Donetsk has several higher educational establishments which offer education in the filed of IT technology, they are Donetsk National University, Donetsk national technical university, Donetsk State University of Informatics and Artificial Intelligence. These universities are ground of development of IT in the region since there are a great number of high qualified specialist graduate every year.

Useful Information

Hotels

Transport

- airport

Address: Donetsk, airport

Phone numbers: 344-73-22; 332-00-67

- railway

Train Station

Address: Privokzalnaja square

Phone number: 512-253

- bus station

Ujniy Donetsk Autostation – 1 Autostation

Address: 12, Pavshih Communarov street

Phone number: 664-123

- city transport

There are over 300 city transport agencies which serve all the needs of such a huge city. Buses, tramways and trolleybuses are presented.

- taxi

Shown below is a list of Donetsk taxi companies. The average fare, in town, is about 20-25 Hryvnia ($2.50-$3.25 USD)

Restaurants

Fast- Food

Restaurants

Prices:$- Inexpensive● $$- Moderate ● $$$ - Expensive

Medical care

Center of emergency medicine

Address: 14, Ilijcha ave

Phone number: 297-41-12,  295-62-00

«Dobrobut»

Address: 29-a, Zusimskaja str.

Phone numbers: 210-03-00, 210-03-03 (24/7)