
Leninskyi District () is an urban district of
Donetsk
Donetsk ( , ; ; ), formerly known as Aleksandrovka, Yuzivka (or Hughesovka), 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 capita ...
,
Ukraine
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, named after a Soviet political figure
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov ( 187021 January 1924), better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician and political theorist. He was the first head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 until Death and state funeral of ...
.
It was created in 1937 as the Factory-Stalin Raion.
Places
File:Институт последипломного образования 001.jpg, Institute of post-graduate education, 2010
File:Monument to the soldiers of the southern front of the World War II, Donetsk.jpg, Memorial stele at a mass grave of the World War II Soviet soldiers
File:Donetsk telecentr 001.jpg, TV Center
File:Ленинский район Донецка 061.jpg, House of Cinema
File:Donetsk shkola pri dmz.jpg, School for children of the British administration of the Yuzivka Metallurgical Factory, 2006
File:Donetsk lenin bose.jpg, Lenin's monument
File:Ленинский район Донецка 121.jpg, Order of Lenin for Donetsk
External links
Lenin Raionat the Uzovka website
Lenin Raionat the Mayor of Donetsk website
Urban districts of Donetsk
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