Word: youzovka
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME, Jan. 5 and Feb. 2, reported claims that: 1) Marshal Timoshenko is the son of a Welsh technician named Charles Jenkins; 2) the Marshal was born in Youzovka, allegedly named after a Welshman, one Hughes...
...controversy over Marshal Timoshenko's ancestry (TIME, Jan. 5), there is one factor deserving of attention. Timoshenko's birthplace, Stalino, was not just "a small town called Youzovka" but a very English town, the first and one of the most important English industrial centers in pre-war Ukraine. The name Youzovka is itself English-a Russian spelling of Hughes-ovka-after its founder, a Welsh ironmaster named Hughes...
Several facts cast rather heavy doubt on Schoolteacher John's account. Timoshenko is a common Ukrainian name. Stalino, 61 years ago, was. a small town called Youzovka. Marshal Timoshenko, who would seem to have no reason for prevaricating, has always said that his father was a Russian peasant, Konstantin Timoshenko...
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