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Ilovaisk is a small sleepy town (17,000 inhabitants) 40 kilometers from Donetsk, until August 2014, only memorable for Soviet holidaymakers who saw its huge station from a car window on the way somewhere towards Sochi. However, at the end of the bloody summer before last, when it seemed that the Ukrainian army was about to regain control over the rebellious Donbass, the course of the war suddenly took a sharp turn: the Southern cauldron at the shown Saur-Mogila was followed by the Ilovaisky cauldron - the largest defeat of the Ukrainian army, which lost in attempts to break through from the environment of hundreds, and even thousands of people killed and missing. The front fell apart and flew off for tens of kilometers, and Ilovaisk remained in the deep rear of the DPR and quickly returned to its original state, often in post-Soviet countries " small town with a big station.

It would have been more canonical to get to Ilovaisk by an electric train departing several times a day from Yasinovataya, but a vulgar minibus from the Southern Bus Station turned out to be more convenient. The beginning of the journey is the same as in the last part, only you will have to fight through not through 5 cities, but only through two - the impassable Makeevka and Khartsyzsk, in which the road turns south. The last one is medium industrial city(58 thousand inhabitants), whose name can be translated as Voryuzhsk or Brodyazhsk, became a kind of bus hub in the DPR, at the bus station of which we made a transfer more than once. From Makiivka, you enter Khartsyzsk between two factories with fantastically long workshops - one pipe plant, founded in 1914 and producing pipes for the most important Soviet pipelines, the other - the Silur cable car, founded in the 1930s and producing shrouds for the most important Soviet bridges. The length of the pipe-rolling shops is striking even when viewed from Ilovaisk - each 750 meters long:

Ilovaisk itself is a compact, almost round town, cut in two by a station, stretching in both directions for several kilometers beyond its borders. The road leads through the out-of-the-line part, where such plots are also found (although more often houses and fences are only cut by fragments), and goes around essentially the entire city - the only overpass is located on the southern outskirts:

The station, as the locals told us, was the front line - western part from the depot through which we entered, the Ukrainian army occupied for about two weeks, and the DPR forces held the eastern side with the city center and the train station. At the beginning of the overpass there is a small memorial stone:

And under the roadside cross - the grave of the militia:

The wind knocked down flowers and candles on it, and we decided to tidy up, finding, among other things, a photograph of a person resting here. The inscriptions on the steel roadside cross say that he was from Odessa:

The following shots are from the bus window, moreover, on the very first day when we drove here at sunset. The overpass rises past the power train base:

The city almost ends here, and the end of the station is still not visible:

Ilovaisk began in 1869 with junction No. 17 on the new Kharkiv-Taganrog highway, which became the backbone of the Donbass, which went into explosive growth with its launch. Here it ran through the huge estate of the Ilovaiskys - noblemen from the foreman of the Don Cossacks, and for example, the same Makeevka was named by them in honor of the legendary Cossack ancestor. The new junction station also became known as Ilovaiskaya, when in 1903 the 17th siding was crossed by one of the lines of the Ekaterininsky railway, which connected the mines of Donbass, the iron mines of Krivoy Rog and the metallurgical plants between them into a single complex. By 1934, the station settlement had grown to a city, and the station turned into the South Gate of the Ukrainian SSR, one of the largest hubs Soviet Union. The central part of the station is visible from the same overpass to the other side behind the trains of empty cars:

Leaving right behind the bridge, we walked along the main street of Shevchenko - the first from the station industrial zone and therefore the most destroyed:

But the city comes to life literally before our eyes, restored and restored here almost more than ruins:

I heard that until quite recently Ilovaisk was very gloomy ... yes, in fact, these small station towns, the inhabitants of which observe with their own eyes how "all life passes by", are almost always dreary and criminogenic, and Ilovaisk, they say, was a sad sight even before the war , and after it, it was described to me as a city of destroyed houses and dogs huddled in packs with fragments of collars. Now there is no such impression, the town for its tiny size is quite lively and well-groomed:

We deviated from Shevchenko Street at the first major turn of Teatralny Lane to see the Palace of Science and Technology of the Locomotive Depot (1930) - constructivist structures with such a catchy name are in all the "station" cities of the Donbass, and how does this differ from, for example, DKZhD - alas , I don't know.

Each one also has a Railroad Park attached, but in Ilovaisk we didn’t go deep into it:

In principle, with the exception of this DNiTLD, everything that looks like a city in Ilovaisk is concentrated on Shevchenko Street. Well, even near the station you can see the square with Ilyich:

At the turn - an unexpectedly modest military monument:

And the main square in Ilovaisk is, whatever one may say, a railway station square:

To the left of the station (on the frame above) there is also a station young technicians, on the right - a bus station without a cash desk, where minibuses just come, and quite often. And opposite the station - the administration:

Officially, the square near the railway station is called the square of Ion Kazarinov, as reported by the memorial stone:

Behind it one can see another stone - in honor of the founding of Ilovaysk and the glorious Ilovaysky family:

And the station itself, opened in 1983, is, in my opinion, one of the best examples of the genre in the late USSR, outwardly most similar to railway stations in Kazakhstan and Central Asia, in the extreme case of BAM and the Yugorsky north:

It is especially original inside, although we were not allowed to take pictures even with accreditation - "the head of the station is not in place, but only he can decide!".

FROM reverse side there is also a concourse through half the station, but so far it is closed, the passage is along a banal viaduct, and it’s completely more convenient to get to the platforms through the paths:

On the island platform is a rather beautiful Old Station (1903-04). As I understand it, one side (in the title frame) has been suburban since the 1980s, and the other has been intercity since the 1990s - Ilovaisk in Ukraine was also a railway checkpoint:

General view of the station. As I understand it, Ilovaisk lost most of its traffic back in Soviet time, when trains from Moscow and St. Petersburg to Sochi went through the Voronezh course, and from Ukraine they simply greatly diminished. Now there are several electric trains running here to Yasinovataya (that is, Donetsk and Makeevka) a day and a conditionally long-distance train to Uspenka.

But there are still a lot of wagons and equipment on the tracks:

For example, in the center of VLS-606 - not an electric locomotive of the 1930s, as I thought, but a contact network measuring machine:

Behind the deserted wagons in the round depot there are burned-out diesel trains, and among them there is one whole:

The overpass is very long and winding in three planes. Waste heaps in the background are in the town of Mospino (10,000 inhabitants), subordinated to Donets, from which a tank attack "slammed" the Ilovaisk cauldron. A little to the left, on Starobesheve, Ukrainians who did not want to disarm (or simply deceived that they would be released with weapons) broke through, many of whom died in those fields.

An impressive company passed towards me, I heard only a fragment of the conversation "I haven't been at war for half a year!". I could not resist and photographed them from the back, it is hardly possible to identify someone like that.

And on the wire sat a dove, the same Dove of Peace:

We returned to the outback part, consisting exclusively of the deserted private sector:

There are also such houses here, I thought they were pre-revolutionary, but a local resident corrected in the comments that this entire area had been built up since the 1960s:

But in general, I felt an obsessive deja vu here: I saw all these streets on YouTube, in those plots of a soldier's home video, filmed on a phone, fixed in a breast pocket - of course, already in the days of the purge, and not the brutal street battles that preceded it. Here the dashing Motorola and his comrades naturally hunt for an armored personnel carrier a couple of streets from the intersection they occupied, and one of the soldiers barely has time to jump around the corner of the house opposite, when a dense line of dust rises along the street; Here, young militiamen, joking as if on a fishing trip, take the hut in which the guys from the Donbass battalion have settled, throwing grenades with them through the neighboring area, the high fence of which prevents the defenders of the house from using machine guns. But a platoon of militias pours into another yard to clean up with the words “Sorry, grandmother, this is so that they don’t shoot us in the back!”, And noticing a frail long-haired guy next to the grandmother, they throw him: “Why not with us?”. That shoot is the best war movie of all time, and I hope someday someone makes a feature film out of it.

The locals, on the other hand, told the same thing about those events, and told with the same shudder: it was very scary, many civilians died or were left crippled (a man who looked like a militia in plain clothes, who was waiting with us for the bus, mentioned 67 killed), and that the AFU were " conscript boys, bonded guys, did not want to fight themselves, "but the battalionists were remembered here as sadists, robbers and murderers. The headquarters of the battalions, according to the locals, was school No. 14, almost at the exit to Khartsyzsk, and then six local residents were shot under its wall: "And for nothing, so that others are afraid!" - and I don't know if it's true, but that's how the locals remember it.

However, they managed to restore the school, in the backyard the men were enthusiastically kneading cement, and even the cat on the side wall of the school was clearly renovated:

After Ilovaisk, the southern front fell apart, and in front of the militias there was a direct road to Mariupol, Berdyansk, Zaporozhye ... but someone somewhere decided that they should not advance further than Novoazovsk, about which the next two parts.

Literally, bit by bit, I'm pulling out photos and videos of evidence of destruction on the Donetsk road from the Internet. It is strange that there is very little of this material, almost not even there. For some reason, the Trainprix and Parovoz websites do not contain NOT A SINGLE photo from the site of the war in the Dobass. And this is in our digital Internet era, when every second person has a photographic device in his pocket.
I found a little on the search, as well as in the network group "in contact" http://vk.com/kic_ilovaysk

A photo of a damaged contact network, which was presumably taken in the Ilovaisk region. By the way, electrification came here a very long time ago - at the turn of the 50s and 60s.

September photos from Ilovaisk station.

And it once seemed to me that what happened in Chechnya was the worst thing that could happen in space former USSR. However, all these 20 years have been moving towards this, starting with the "fraternal" division of the fleet.

Here on this video there are frames and comments from the Ilovaisk railway station.

Reference:

Station Ilovaysk - the most important station on the Donetsk railway. The main main passage passes through it, linking Ukraine in the past with the North Caucasus and southern Russia. There was a docking station in Ilovaisk, where the Ukrainian "permanent station" was in contact with the "change" coming from the Russian North Caucasus road. Before the war, locomotives came here en masse alternating current From Russia. Just in the pre-war photo, the Russian EP1M and ChS8 AC are visible.
All passenger trains from Ukraine passed through Ilovaisk, which went in the direction of Rostov-on-Don and the North Caucasus, including the Kyiv-Kislovodsk train, which I repeatedly traveled. Here, along with the change of the locomotive and the type of current, there was also Ukrainian border control and all trains stopped for up to an hour, which made this station quite recognizable and memorable even for people far from a piece of iron.
There was also significant freight traffic. The mileage on the main section Gorlovka - Ilovaisk - Taganrog is counted from Moscow, since this is the historical Railway Russian Empire, which first connected Moscow with Rostov-on-Don and the Caucasus.
The prospects for the resumption of traffic in the same volume, even in the event of a peaceful settlement, are very vague. It is not clear what and who will be transported through the Donbass, between the current Nazi Ukraine and southern Russia.
This situation can be changed only if the junta manages to recapture Krasny Lyman, Artemovsk and Kharkov, or at least the eastern part of the Kharkov region, along with the Kupyansk railway junction.

Here on this map you can clearly see the location of this large station.

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