Kuibyshevskyi District, Donetsk Explained

Settlement Type:	Urban district
Subdivision Type:	Country
Subdivision Name1:	Donetsk Oblast
Timezone:	EET
Utc Offset:	+2
Timezone Dst:	EEST
Utc Offset Dst:	+3
Official Name:	Kuibyshevskyi District
Native Name:	Куйбишевський район
Area Total Km2:	51
Population Total:	118,157

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

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

Notable people

• Akhat Bragin

External links

• Kuibyshev Raion at the Mayor of Donetsk website
• Kuibyshev Raion at the Uzovka website

48.0167°N 81°W

Notes and References

1. http://www.segodnya.ua/regions/donetsk/v-poselke-shahty-oktyabrskaya-chetvertyy-god-zona-otchuzhdeniya-s-koncertami-1025207.html 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)