Avdiivka is a city in Ukraine, in the Pokrovsky district, Donetsk region. Administrative center of Avdiiv city community. It is located 13 km north of Donetsk, in the upper reaches of the Skotovata River in the Siverskyi Dinets basin. There is a railway station of the same name in the city.
Palace of Culture of PJSC "AKHZ".
Central city square.
Boulevard named after Shevchenko.
Khimik Stadium (Youth Street).
Linear polyclinic of Avdeevka station (Chistyakova street).
Blue
lakes, sand pit.
Red lake.
Cafe "Brevno".
Cafe Baroque.
Shop
"Karavai".
Railroad Park.
7th school.
"ATB".
"Decorate".
Religion
In Avdiivka, there is the center of the Avdeevka deanery
of the Donetsk diocese of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow
Patriarchate - a church in honor of the Holy Archangel of God Michael,
as well as other churches included in this deanery: St. Nicholas, St.
Nicholas, St. Equal-to-the-Apostles Mary Magdalene, St. Lukinsky.
Also in the city is the Protestant Church "Awakening", which belongs
to the union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists.
Roads
The following roads pass through Avdiivka:
territorial highway T 0505 (Avdiivka — Donetsk)
road of regional
importance O0542 (Yasynuvata — Zhelanne)
An important element of the
city's transport infrastructure is the railway crossing connecting the
village of Khimik with the eastern part of the city. Also south of
Avdiivka, a few kilometers away, is the Donetsk bypass road, the M04
highway of international importance.
Tram
Tram traffic in the
city of Avdiivka began in 1965.
There was a tram line in the city
that connected the center of Avdiivka with the Avdiivka Coke Plant. In
the early 2000s, two tram routes operated. During the hostilities
(2014-2015), the tram network was damaged during artillery shelling, the
contact network was dismantled.
In October 2016, tram traffic was
restored, trams ran from the tram park to the coke chemical plant. Tram
traffic has been suspended since January 2017.
Railway
The
railway in Avdiivka has a long history.
The railway
infrastructure of Avdiyivka is a component of the Yasynuvat Directorate
of Railway Transportation of the Donetsk Railway. The following bus
stops are located in the city:
"Avdiivka" station;
with. n.
446 km;
with. n. 447 km;
with. Mr. Chemist.
As of December
2016, 4 pairs of suburban electric trains "Chaplyne-Avdiivka" run
through Ocheretyne.
Avdiivka is located 13 km north of Donetsk, in the upper reaches of the Kamenka River (a tributary of the Krivoy Torets, the Seversky Donets basin).
Pre-revolutionary years
In the vicinity of the city, a stone woman
was found in a barrow, which indicates the presence of nomads of the
9th-13th centuries in these places.
Avdiivka is one of the oldest
settlements in Donbass. The first settlement on the territory of the
modern city was founded in the middle of the 18th century by people from
the Kursk, Voronezh and Poltava provinces. In 1778, by order of the
Novorossiysk governor, the created village became state property, it was
named after the first settler of Avdeevka.
According to the data
for 1859, 2,299 people (1,180 males and 1,119 females) lived in the
state-owned village of the Bakhmut district of the Yekaterinoslav
province, there were 450 household farms, an Orthodox church and a post
station. As of 1886, 3087 people lived in the former state village, the
center of the Avdeevskaya volost, there were 555 households, there was
an Orthodox church and a school, and 2 fairs were held a year.
In
the mid-1880s, the Catherine's railway passed through the area on which
the city is now located, and a railway station was built here. According
to the 1897 census, the number of inhabitants increased to 2153 people
(1282 males and 871 females), of which 2057 were Orthodox. In 1908, 5475
people (2736 males and 2739 females) lived in the village, there were
865 households.
Revolution and Civil War
In April 1920, a
detachment of Makhnovists attacked the Avdeevka railway station, where
they destroyed railway property and telephones. In November 1920, Nestor
Makhno ordered the detachment of Theodosius Shchus to occupy the station
and the village near it.
Soviet period
Avdiivka suffered as a
result of a massive famine in the Ukrainian SSR in 1932-1933, the number
of identified victims in the Avdiivka 1st and 2nd settlement councils
was 485 people. In 1938-1962, Avdeevka was the center of the Avdeevka
region. Avdeevka received the status of a city in 1956 as a result of
the merger of two urban-type settlements - Avdeevka First and Avdeevka
Second.
The writer Mikhail Makarovich Kolosov (1923-1996) was
born and raised in Avdiyivka.
November 28, 1990 Avdiivka received
the status of a city of regional subordination.
Since 2014, it has been a front-line city in connection with the
armed conflict in eastern Ukraine. Fighting for Avdiivka periodically
resumed until 2017.
On December 13, 2020, for the first time
since 2014, Ukrzaliznytsia launched a train to Avdiivka, extending the
existing Kyiv-Pokrovsk route, and from June 2021, a regional train on
the Dnipro-Avdiivka route.
The city was heavily damaged during the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. According to the head of the Donetsk Regional State Administration Pavel Kirilenko, on March 26, the industrial zone of Avdiivka was fired with phosphorus ammunition, on April 26, the area of the coking plant, and the next morning, the city center, which caused several fires. On April 29, data appeared on the use of thermobaric ammunition by Russian troops near Avdiivka. On May 18, the Russian army destroyed Avdeevskaya School No. 1 with phosphorus ammunition (there were no casualties; there were only duty officers who managed to escape in the building).
Avdiivka Coke Plant
Plant of reinforced concrete structures
Plant "Stroydetal"
Avdeevka experimental plant of non-standard
equipment
Plant of metal structures PJSC "AZMK"
ceramic factory
career management
Manufacture of garments and haberdashery
Construction and installation department "Donkoksokhimstroy"
The main
part of the able-bodied population (more than 70%) is involved in
industry.
Village Khimik (four-, five- and nine-storey buildings):
9 block
17;
Jubilee quarter;
Builders quarter;
boulevard them. T. G.
Shevchenko;
the old part of the city is a private sector.
A large part of the women who were previously registered in Avdiivka
for infertility gave birth to children after the start of the war in the
east of Ukraine. Possible explanations for this phenomenon are a change
in the hormonal background due to stress, as well as a change in sexual
partner (in the event that the infertile person was actually a man, not
a woman).
Avdiivska porridge, the unique recipe of which has not been
lost over the years, is still prepared according to the culinary
traditions preserved by our great-grandmothers. During the decades of
spread of cooking technology, Avdiiv porridge ceased to be just food, it
became a talisman dish. It is part of the public property of the
intangible heritage of the Donetsk region.
Oleksandr Valentinovych Novak (* 1971) is the Minister of Energy of
the Russian Federation since May 21, 2012.
Andrii Volodymyrovych
Smetanin (1981—2017) is a senior sergeant of the Armed Forces of
Ukraine, a participant in the Russian-Ukrainian war.
Oleksandr
Yevhenovich Tregub (1975-2017) is a senior police sergeant, a
participant in the Russian-Ukrainian war.
Dmytro Oleksandrovych
Triteikin (1974—2017) is a Ukrainian rescuer, lieutenant colonel of the
Civil Defense Service.
Oleksiy Shaparev (1974- t.h.) is a Ukrainian
film director, screenwriter and actor. Director of the film "Cool 1918".
Oleksandr Oleksandrovich Filippov (1992) is a Ukrainian football player,
forward of Chernihiv "Desna".
Heroes of the Soviet Union
Volodymyr Ivanovich Glazunov (1925—1992) — Hero of the Soviet Union.
Went to the front in September 1943. Rifleman of the 105th Guards Rifle
Regiment of the 34th Guards Rifle Red Banner Yenakiiv Division.
Serhii Ivanovich Yelagin (1903, Orlivka village - 1949) is a junior
sergeant, commander of the rifle division of the 1376th rifle regiment
of the 417th separate division. Died of wounds, buried on Avdiivka
Street, in a mass grave.
Mykhailo Yukhimovych Nechaev (1916—1942) —
Guards captain, tanker, posthumous rank.
Fyodor Andriyovych Rudskyi
(1921-1992) — during the war, a captain, tank operator, major general of
tank troops (1966).
Lev Shestakov (1915-1944) - fighter pilot, Hero
of the Soviet Union.