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Who founded the city of Donetsk in the Ukraine?
« on: 15 November 2013, 21:05:26 »
Obvious, a Welshman of course. John Hughes a Welsh industrialist was invited, in 1846, by the Tsar to build a steel works in Russia. The city was originally called Hughesovka after him but it was changed by Stalin to Stalino and it finally became Donetsk in 1961.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2507931/The-British-Oligarch-Industrialist-moved-2-000-miles-Welsh-valleys-home-set-lucrative-steel-works-Imperial-Russia.html
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