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About John Hughes
John James Hughes was a Welsh engineer, businessman and founder of the city of Donetsk. The village was originally named Yuzovka or Yuzivka after Hughes, formally becoming a town in May 1917 and in 1924 being renamed to Stalino. In 1961, the name was changed to Donetsk.
Everything about John Hughes →- Occupation
- businessperson, engineer, metallurgist, mine entrepreneur
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Russian Empire
- Born
- 1814, June 25, 1815
- Died
- June 17, 1889