UK Hotel - one of the oldest buildings in Donetsk. The building was built in 1883. It was originally two storeys , but in 1891 built a second floor , after which the hotel has become one of the tallest buildings in the city. Also, for a long time the building is the only hotel in town.
the Hotel owned by UK Sobolev. Go to the hotel belonged to cinema hall for 350 people - the illusion of Sobolev.
in the hotel stopped writers Alexander Kuprin ( who came to Kiev correspondent Yuzivka as newspapers), Alexander Serafimovich ( from the newspaper Azov region), Paustovsky ( arrived at Yuzovskiy factory inspector as shells), Vladimir Mayakovsky and Engineers II Bardin , M. Pavlov.
During the German occupation of Donetsk in the Second World War the hotel was a brothel for German officers.
At the present time the building is located 2 star hotel with the same name - the United Kingdom.
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