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Yuzovka

British  
/ ˈjuzəfkə /

noun

  1. a former name (1872 until after the Revolution) of Donetsk

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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 • Feb. 10, 2023

Locals called him John Yuz, so the town was initially named Yuzovka.

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2014

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 • Jun. 11, 2012

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