Donetsk (ukr)

Donetsk

Donetsk ranks 452nd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind London, Ontario, El Paso, Texas, and Portsmouth. Memorable people born in Donetsk include Anatoliy Solovianenko, Anatoly Fomenko, and Natan Sharansky. Memorable people who died in Donetsk include Alexander Zakharchenko, Viktor Zvyahintsev, and Mikhail Tolstykh. Donetsk has been the birth place of many athletes, and politicians and the death place of many soccer players, and military personnels. Donetsk is located in Ukraine.

Donetsk, formerly known as Aleksandrovka, Yuzivka, Stalin, and Stalino, is an industrial city in eastern Ukraine located on the Kalmius River in Donetsk Oblast, which is currently occupied by Russia as the capital of the Donetsk People's Republic. The population was estimated at 901,645 in the city core, with over 2 million in the metropolitan area (2011). According to the 2001 census, Donetsk was the fifth-largest city in Ukraine. Read more on Wikipedia