"Where I Grew Up" a Rubizhne Travel Page by hunterV

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Rubizhne, Luhansk region, Ukraine...
This is the city where I grew up, finished a secondary school and made first friends...
I graduated from secondary school #3 in 1977. Afterwards I have visited this city very often to see my parents and friends.
My parents live here downtown in Mendeleyev Street.

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The first settlement at the city area dates back to 1730 when Cossack Colonel Rushkevich founded a Cossack fort called Rubezh (in English - Border).
The Cossack village got new development when it was connected with major cities by the railroad that was built in 1894-1895.
The settlement grew when a chemical factory called Russko-Kraska was built in the area in 1915.
1915 has been celebrated as the foundation year of the town of Rubizhne. The factory settlement of Rubizhne got municipal rights in 1934.
The city has the territory of 33.76 sq.km (13 square miles). The population is about 60 thousand inhabitants now.
The biggest holiday of the year has always been Chemical Workers' Day that is celebrated on the last Sunday of May with a large cultural and sports program and a fireworks display in the evening. Also, Rubizhne celebrates its City Day, like lots of other towns and cities, but unlike them the local City Day is called Family Day - the only Family Day in the cities and towns of Ukraine.
Rubizhne used to have international relations with the city of Louisville, Kentucky. I don't know anything about the development of those relations now.
And some more information from the web site of the Regional Library (poor English translation though).
City information resource
Photos of Rubizhne
More city pictures
Cars in Rubizhne

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Hotel in Mendeleyev Street, Rubizhne

Mendeleyev Street

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This is Mendeleyev Street - one of the central streets of the city that has a population of about 65 thousand inhabitants now.
Bohdan Khmelnitsky Street runs parallel to Mendeleyev Street forming the city center. These streets are intersected by three other central streets:
Kirov Street, Liberators' Street and Lenin Street.You can find everything you need in each of those streets: cafes and restaurants, shops and stores, photo studios and Internet clubs.
There are 110 streets and lanes in the city.
I grew up in a five-storey apartment house in Mendeleyev Street not far from its intersection with Lenin Street and graduated from School 3 in Students' Street.
Rubizhne is one of the few cities of Luhansk region that has its own amateur musical comedy theater that works at the city conference center. They staged My Fair Lady and other operas.
Have a look at the view of Rubizhne from above:
Rubizhne from above

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There is a lot of chemical industry in the city.

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Dmitry Mendeleyev
(1834-1907),
the Father of the Russian Chemical science,
who created
the Periodical System of Chemical Elements,
is very much revered here.

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You can see this monument to the Great Chemist in Mendeleyev Street not far from the bus terminal opposite School 8.
Also, there is Mendeleyev monument in the old city park.
There were rumors in the seventies that the city would be merged with the neighboring cities: Lissichansk and Syeverodonetsk and the new huge city would be renamed into Mendeleyevsk in honor of this outstanding scientist. But those plans were not destined to come true.

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