If you ended up in Donetsk during the theater season and in a happy coincidence, you are theater - visit the Opera and Ballet Theater named after A. B. Solovyanenko, who for several decades pleasing to residents and guests of the city with their repertoire and touring around the world. The theater building is located in the center of the city, he managed to survive the German occupation. Separately, I draw your attention to the fact that knowing the dates of your trip, take care of tickets in advance, buy tickets day a day, despite the fact that every placement of the marriage is very problematic.
The Donetsk Music Drama Theater will be an equally pleasant discovery for theater.
Both theaters have an excellent repertoire (including a children's) and a wonderful cast.
Another wonderful excursion is the Donetsk Botanical Garden of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. The Botanical Garden Collection Fund has about 8,000 rarest plants, it is twice as smaller than, for example, in the Moscow Botanical Garden, but four times the collection of the famous Nikitsky Botanical Garden. Sightseeing service Daily on weekdays, here you can get acquainted with various expositions: tropics, subtropics, a unique collection of cacti and other no less wonderful collections. All exposures work all year round. Excursion service begins for groups from 10 people, but we experienced the experimental way to find out that a beautiful individual excursion for a group of two people costs 800 hryvnia that at that time was about 100 dollars. You can get to the botanical garden by taxi and public transport - a route taxi, bus, trolleybus (the cost of public transport on Donetsk ranges from 1 hryvnia to three).
I recommend taking money to the botanical garden not only on the tickets, there is an exhibition-sale of rare plant species and to keep the purchase is very difficult.
Of course, the best time to visit the Spring Botanical Garden, but taking into account the fact that many expositions work in closed premises, at any time of the year you can count on a fascinating tour.