Things to do in Donetsk
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3 Tolstyaka
The 3 Tolstyaka is enormously popular for a reason: authentic Russian food at awesome prices. Its popularity is also proof that average Donetsk denizens can’t afford the gaudy prices at all those top-end restaurants.
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Chicago Biker’s Bar
Soviet chic to the core, it features a pellet-gun gallery, KGB prison cell–like private rooms, and beer taps on the tables. There’s live music nightly and Shakhtar Donetsk games are shown on televisions embedded in oil barrels. It’s part of the multifunctional Chicago nightclub and entertainment complex.
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Soledar Salt Mine
You can visit the mine all year round. From Artemivsk take a taxi or a 'Soledar' marshrutka from the bus station (35 minutes) and ask for the shakhta (mine). There are plenty of trains from Donetsk to Artemivsk. Going with a tour agency from Donetsk makes things easier but costs a couple hundred dollars.
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Bassano del Grappa
This bright Italian restaurant has a great wine list and an inviting street side patio for sipping that wine. It’s a perfect spot for a three-course lunch. If you just order pasta you can escape for less than 50uah – a bargain given the quality of the food and service.
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Golden Lion
Far from your run-of-the-mill Irish pub, and not just because it’s spacious enough to hold a rugby game and is open round the clock. Here you’ll also encounter 5uah Sarmat beer to go along with the standard selection of imported brew.
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Svynya
It’s known as an agreeable basement bar where you can hobnob with the resident Vietnamese mini-pig. What’s less known is that the food – Russian with original touches – is exceptional.
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Virus
A 15-minute taxi ride east of the centre is Donetsk’s hottest club, with a simmering crowd dancing in multiple chambers. This is not the place to chill out.
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Olympic Stadium
Domestic games are held in the old Olympic Stadium, fronted by a tall statue of pole-vault great and hometown hero Sergei Bubka.
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Donetsk Art Museum
The Donetsk Art Museum has a large collection spanning the last three centuries, including a notable Soviet realist collection.
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Lenin Statue
The masses gather to watch Shakhtar’s away matches on a giant screen near the Lenin Statue in the centre of town.
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Opera & Ballet Theatre
Culture vultures can catch Swan Lake in its original language at the Donetsk Opera & Ballet Theatre
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War Memorial
Chiselled socialist realist sculptures dot the sprawling War Memorial.
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