Donetsk was Hughes-ovka

Wow, that doesn't roll of the tongue quite like Istanbul and Constantinople, does it?  Hard to believe that you could fine a pair of city names that are harder to get into a song than the 2 that 'They Might be Giants' chose.

This is Donetsk:

I started looking into the city of Donetsk today because there is one potentially fatal flaw in our planned trip...  We only have about 40 minutes after the final whistle blows in the Shakhtar-Tottenham game to travel about 4 miles back the train station for our departure.  I was checking out the map and discovered there are some amazingly interesting things about this city.

• Shakhtar play in a stadium with 2 different names.  It is either called Locomotiv Stadium or Olympic Stadium.  Even weirder, they don't actually play in Shakhtar Stadium which is just a few miles from there - the other team in Donetsk does!  This is like the NY Mets playing at a place called Yankee Stadium.
• The city of Donetsk was founded by a Welsh guy!  His name was Hughes and it was originally called 'Yuzovka' for that reason.  It was renamed 'Stalina' in 1923, derived from the word for steel - the city's major industry.  It's only been called Donetsk since 1961 when it was "De-Stalinfied.'
• It used to be the capital of it's own Soviet Republic.
• It was the site of a Nazi concentration camp in which 92,000 people where killed, mostly Slavs.
• I have compared Shakhtar to the Steelers before and lo and behold, Pittsburgh is one of Donetsk's sister cities.
• In 1970 the city was called the world's cleanest industrial city by UNESCO.
• It is the home of world record pole vaulter Sergey Bubka - quite possibly the most dominant athlete in the history of sports.  Bubka broke the world record (usually his own) 35 times in his career and has held it unchallenged at 6.14 meters since his retirement in 2001.  No other athlete has yet been able to even reach 6.10 so his record is likely safe for the foreseeable future.

How about all that for a list of truly interesting facts!