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City in Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine
Photo: Владимир Рар, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Alchevsk (Russian: Алчевск; Ukrainian: Алчевськ, Alčevs'k) is a city of 107,000 people (2021) in the Luhansk People's Republic.
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проспект Ленина
Its architecture is in the style of "Stalin's empire". The buildings are decorated with columns, rosettes, vases, cornices and other decorative elements. Due to the lack of renovation work, the condition of the buildings has deteriorated significantly. At one end of the avenue Lenin, near the House of Culture of Chemists is a beautiful fountain with lights, and at the other is the Stele (Стелла) fountain in honor of the 20th anniversary of the Victory.
Свято-Георгиевский храм
Completed in 2001.
Городской исторический музей
A branch of the Regional Museum. A one-room exhibition with an area of 400 m².
Стадион «Сталь»
Home arena of the first league club "Stal". At the moment FC "Stal" does not take part in tournaments due to events in the East of Ukraine.
By train
By car
You can drive to Alchevsk from Luhansk or Donetsk along the M-04 highway, the city is in the middle of the Debaltseve—Luhansk section.
By bus
Any interregional bus of the Luhansk direction.
Public transport in the city is represented by trolleybuses and by route taxis. Routes of buses and minibuses duplicate trolleybus routes, but have minor additions or deviations.
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