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Football stadium in Donetsk, Ukraine
Donbas Arena is a football stadium in Donetsk, that opened on 29 August 2009. The facility is located in the center of the city, in the Comsomol park. With a capacity of 55,187 spectators, the stadium used to host Shakhtar Donetsk matches and also hosted some matches of UEFA Euro 2012. The final cost of construction for Donbas Arena was $400 million. The stadium has been indefinitely closed to the public since mid-May 2014, due to the war in Donbas and Russo-Ukrainian war. Shakhtar Donetsk l played their most recent game at the ground on 2 May 2014 against Illichivets Mariupol.
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City in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine
Donetsk, formerly known as Aleksandrovka, Yuzivka, 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 capital of the Donetsk People's Republic. The population was estimated at 901,645 in the city core, with over 2 million in the metropolitan area (2011). According to the 2001 census, Donetsk was the fifth-largest city in Ukraine.
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