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# Antratsyt

A settlement in Ukraine; local name Антрацит.

## English name

**Antratsyt** — Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010 and recommended by the UN in 2012; also the BGN/PCGN system adopted in 2019. This spelling also coincides with BGN/PCGN 1965.

Other forms in use:

- **Antratsit** — Russian-based English spelling; also resembles the Russian word for anthracite.
- **Bokovo-Antratsit** — Former Russian-based city name before the shorter name was adopted in 1962.
- **Antracit** — ISO 9:1995 reversible transliteration of the Ukrainian spelling. Standard-derived form; medium confidence in actual use for this place, not claimed as an established English exonym.
- **Antrat͡syt** — ALA-LC Ukrainian 2011 library romanization of the Ukrainian spelling. Standard-derived form; medium confidence in actual use for this place, not claimed as an established English exonym.
- **Антрацит** — Original Ukrainian Cyrillic spelling, useful for matching local documents and quotations; not a Latin-script English form.

## French name

**Antratsyt** — Ukrainian-based spelling used in French geographical references; the Russian-based variant remains recognizable.

Other forms in use:

- **Antratsit** — Russian-based form also encountered in French writing on the Donbas.
- **Bokovo-Antratsit** — Former name in Russian transcription, relevant in French accounts of the period before 1962.

## About

Antratsyt is a coal-mining city in Luhansk Oblast in eastern Ukraine. Its name refers to anthracite, the hard coal associated with this part of the Donbas.

## Notes

The 1962 change shortened the earlier Bokovo-Antratsyt name; the mining name is not a recent decommunization renaming.

Identifiers: [Wikidata Q609028](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q609028) · [JSON](https://md.locations.elamur.ai/free/en/ukraine/antratsyt/?format=json)


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