Artemivsk

The speed bump of a city, formerly named Artemivsk, was in the spotlight.

Ira was a nurse in the nearby city of what was then called Artemivsk, now Bakhmut.

In 2016, as part of a wave of anti-Communist, anti-Russian sentiment, residents ditched the Soviet-era name of their city, Artemivsk, which had been adopted in 1924, and restored the historical name of Bakhmut, which dates to 1571 when it was a Cossack settlement.

Nelya was born here in 1930, when the city was called Artemivsk.

An Associated Press reporter on Thursday saw two Grad missile launchers driving toward the government-controlled town of Artemivsk.