John Hughes (businessman)

John James Hughes (1814 – 17 June 1889) was a Welsh engineer, businessman and founder of the city of Donetsk. The village was originally named Yuzovka (Hughesovka, Russian: Юзoвка) or Yuzivka (Ukrainian: Юзівка) after Hughes ("Yuz" being a Russian and Ukrainian approximation of Hughes), formally becoming a town in May 1917 and in 1924 being renamed to Stalino (Ukrainian: Сталіно). In 1961, the name was changed to Donetsk.