Makiivka

Makiivka (Russian: Макеевка, Makeyevka, Ukrainian: Макіївка, Makiyivka) is a city of 340,000 people (2021) in Donetsk People's Republic. Makiivka is a leading metallurgical and coal-mining centre of the Donets Basin, with heavy industry and coking plants supporting the local steel and coal industries.

Understand
Former names: Dmytriivsk, Dmytriyevskyi.

Makiivka and Donetsk are practically a conurbation.

In 1939, the Jewish population of Makiivka was 8,000. Nazis emptied the town of its Jewish population, and executed 369 Jews here.

In 2006, a new synagogue was consecrated in Makiivka after almost 70 years. The house at 51 Lva Tolstogo street serves as a synagogue and as a community center for the Jewish community of Makiiivka's 2,000 members.

Get in
It is 25 km east of Donetsk.

The city has a main passenger station Makiyivka-Pasazhirska, a railway junction Khanzhonkovo (in the settlement where Aleksandr Khanzhonkov was born), and minor railway stations: Krynichna, Monakhovo, Makeevka-Gruzovaya

Get around
There are 4 trolley bus routes:
 * 2 - City center - Main railway station Makeyevka-Passazhirskaja (Makeyevka Passenger)
 * 3 - City center - Bazhanova settlement
 * 4 - City center - Daki
 * 5 - City center - Gornostayevskaya street.

and dozens of bus routes.

See

 * Pioneer Palace (Дворец Пионеров)
 * St. George's Cathedral (Свято-Георгиевский собор)
 * Northern Park (Парк Северный)
 * Park of Vasily Dzharty (Парк им. Василия Джарты)
 * Square of glory (Сквер славы)
 * Square of glory (Сквер славы)