provided with an English school and an Anglican church. Despite the cold winters, hot summers and occasional cholera epidemics, some families remained in Hughesovka for many years. The Bolshevik revolution of 1917 ended the Hughes family's connection to the works. The Hughes brothers and almost all their foreign employees returned to Britain or other countries. The works were nationalised by the Bolsheviks in 1919. The town of Hughesovka was renamed "Stalino" in 1924, and then the present name "Donetsk" in 1961. The works survived and prospered despite regime and socio-economic change, and Donetsk remains a major metallurgical industries centre today. A monument to Hughes by sculptor was erected in Donetsk in 2001. In March 2014, following the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, a humorous campaign advocated that Donetsk join the United Kingdom because of the city's connection to Hughes. Shortly afterwards, the Ukrainian government lost control of Donetsk to militants of the self-declared Donetsk People's Republic, who declared the city to be independent of Ukraine and advocated integration with Russia. In 2014, an instrumental song on the Welsh band Manic Street Preachers' album Futurology paid homage to John Hughes, referring to Donetsk by its former name. In 2017 there was an event in Merthyr with contemporary archival film as well as new music and photographs about the historic connections of migration between Merthyr and Hughesovka. Publications 'Hughesovka, A Welsh Enterprise in Imperial Russia', Susan Edwards, Glamorgan Record Office (1992) . 'Dreaming a City: From Wales to Ukraine', Colin Thomas, Y Lolfa 2009 . Includes the author's 1991 BBC documentary "Hughesovka and the New Russia", winner of BAFTA Cymru's inaugural Best Documentary Award. 'The Iron Tsar, the Life and Times of John Hughes', Roderick Heather, Penpress 2010 See also Donetsk Metallurgical Plant References External links People from Merthyr Tydfil Welsh industrialists Businesspeople in metals British metallurgists Burials at West Norwood Cemetery History of Donetsk 1814 births 1889 deaths British ironmasters 19th-century Welsh businesspeople 19th-century British engineers Russian city founders