Yuzovka
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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His descriptions of the polluted, miserable industrial town of Yuzovka — now Donetsk, one of the centers of the separatist uprising of 2014 — seemed eerily prescient.
From Washington Post
Founded by a 19th-century Welsh engineer called Hughes who called it Yuzovka after himself, renamed Stalino as it drove the industrialization of the Soviet Union, today's Donetsk can shape the next stage of Ukraine's slow emergence from totalitarian rule in the fraught space between Russia and the European Union.
From Reuters
Locals called him John Yuz, so the town was initially named Yuzovka.
From BBC
The city, initially, was called Yuzovka, but its name was changed to Stalin, which means steel and also happened to be the name of the Soviet dictator.
From New York Times
Khrushchev first met Stalin in 1925, when the younger man was elected a delegate from the Yuzovka party organization in the southern Ukraine to the 14th Party Congress in Moscow.
From Time Magazine Archive
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