Makiivka

In 1939, the Jewish population of Makiivka was 8,000. In the Operational Situation Report (USSR No. 177) of Nazi German Chief of the Security Police dated from March 6, 1942 it is stated that as a result of the measures carried out by Einsatzkommando 6, both the Horlivka and Makiivka districts had been made "free of Jews". Nazis executed a total of 493 people here, among them 80 political agitators, 44 saboteurs and looters, and 369 Jews.

In September 2006, the first synagogue has been consecrated in Makiivka after almost 70 years. The house at 51 Lva Tolstogo street serves not only a synagogue but also a community center for a Jewish community of Makiiivka containing 2,000 members. The chief rabbi of Makiivka is Eliyahu Kremer. Makiivka Jewish community chairman is Alexander-Mikhoel Katz.

Yasynivka coke plant near Makiivka

There are many coal mines in and around the city. Makiivka's modern industries include one of the largest integrated iron and steel works in Ukraine. There are also other metalworking and coke-chemical plants and factories for pneumatic machinery, shoemaking, and food processing. The city is rather dispersed, with numerous residential communities surrounding individual industrial plants over an extensive area. It is gradually extending to form a single metropolitan area with the nearby city of Donetsk, which lies just a few miles to the southwest. Makiivka is home to the Donbas National Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture.

The largest enterprises in Makiivka are: State enterprise "Makeyevugol" - open joint-stock company "Makeyevsky Metallurgical Works" - open joint-stock company, "Yasinovsky Coke-chemical Plant", and the limited company "Makeyevcoke".

There are also many machine-building enterprises within the city, with the most significant being: open joint-stock company "Granit", open joint-stock company "Stroymash", and the closed joint-stock company "Makeyevsky Mine's Automatic Machinery plant".

The Makiivka metallurgical plant produced 1.029 million tons of steel and 825,000 tons of pig iron in 2005. It increased production of rolled steel 1.56-fold to over 700,000 tons in the January–July period of 2006, compared with the corresponding period of last year. It aims to increase its sales revenues to 1.265 billion hryvnia in 2006. The Nucor company (United States) intends to sign a contract with the Makiivka metallurgical plant on delivery of pig iron to the company's enterprises in the United States.

Makiivka is crossed by several railway lines: one is the Yasynuvata-Krynichna line (Russian: Ясиноватая-Криничная), and the other is the Mospyno-Makiivka freight line (Russian: Моспино — Макеевка грузовая). The city also contained a tram line (since 1925, but there are no tram routes now since 2006) and a trolleybus system (from 1969).

Trolley buses have 4 routes:

2 - City center - Main railway station Makeyevka-Passazhirskaja (Makeyevka Passenger)

3 - City center - Bazhanova settlement

4 - City center - Daki

5 - City center - Gornostayevskaya street.

There are plans to connect trolleybus networks of Donetsk and Makeyevka with direct intercity line to March 2013.

The city has a main passenger station Makiyivka-Pasazhirska, a railway junction Khanzhonkovo (situated in the settlement where Aleksandr Khanzhonkov was born), and minor railway stations:Krynichna, Monakhovo, Makeevka-Gruzovaya as well as a number of railway bays.

On the territory of Makiivka there are 22 churches, 73 religious organisations, and a women's monastery.

The city's inhabitants follow different religions, including:

• Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Moscow Patriarchate — 23 communities;
• Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kyiv Patriarchate — 3 communities;
• Armenian Apostolic Church — 1 community;
• Roman-Catholic Church — 1 community;
• Islam — 2 communities;
• Jewish — 1 community;
• Krishna — 1 community;
• Protestant confessions — 41 communities.

Today, Makiivka has a total of 5 sport stadiums, 4 swimming pools, 90 sport gyms, 15 football fields, 5 children's sport schools, and 36 fitness rooms. There is also a sport school for physically disabled people.

Within the city, 35 different forms of sport are played, and there are a total of 35 sport organisations. There are also many campuses of the oblast's sport schools in Makiivka, including schools for: kickboxing, volleyball, heavy athletics, boxing, some other forms of wrestling, and judo.

• Aleksandr Khanzhonkov (1877–1945) — pioneer of Russian cinematograph was a native of the city;
• Pyotr Ryabtsev (1915–1941) — Soviet biplane fighter ace, born in the city;
• Vladimir Zakharov (1901–1956) — Russian composer, manager of Piatnytskyi National Choir, musical editor of all-Soviet radio, born here;
• Mykola Kapusta (1938—) — Ukrainian journalist and artist-designer who won 70 prizes on the international cartoon contests, born here.
• Yevhen Seleznyov — (1985—) Ukrainian football player
• Olga Savchuk — (1987—) Ukrainian tennis player
• Irina Yarovaya — (1966—) Russian political figure
• Denis Pushilin — (1981—) Head of the Donetsk People's Republic

• Titanium Man, the Marvel Comics super-villain of Iron Man universe