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# Dokuchaievske

A settlement in Ukraine; local name Докучаєвське.

## English name

**Dokuchaievske** — Current Ukrainian name adopted in 2016; national romanization (2010) gives Dokuchaievske.

Other forms in use:

- **Komunist** — Former Ukrainian name, replaced by Dokuchaievske in May 2016.
- **Kommunist** — Russian form of the former Soviet name, replaced in Ukrainian law in 2016.
- **Dokuchayevskoye** — Russian-based rendering of Докучаевское; distinct from the city of Dokuchaievsk.
- **Dokoutchaievske** — French reference spelling for matching French titles quoted in English; not an asserted common English exonym.
- **Dokuchayevs’ke** — BGN/PCGN Ukrainian romanization (1965); standard-derived retrieval form, with actual English prose use unverified.
- **Dokučaêvsʹke** — ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; standard-derived retrieval form, with actual English prose use unverified.
- **Dokuchai͡evsʹke** — ALA-LC Ukrainian romanization (2011 table); standard-derived retrieval form, with actual English prose use unverified.
- **Докучаєвське** — Original Ukrainian spelling for matching quoted local source titles, maps and addresses.

## French name

**Dokoutchaievske** — French settlement reference heading uses ou and tch; no claim of government or media-wide standardization is made.

Other forms in use:

- **Komunist** — Former Ukrainian name, superseded in 2016; retained for French historical-source matching.
- **Kommunist** — Russian spelling of the former name for French archival matching.
- **Dokuchaievske** — International spelling retained for French source matching; the French reference heading uses the adapted main above.

## About

Dokuchaievske is a settlement southeast of Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine. It is associated with the campus and history of the Kharkiv agricultural university named after soil scientist Vasily Dokuchaev.

## Notes

Komunist renamed Dokuchaievske on 12 May 2016, resolution 1353-VIII. French Dokoutchaievske is separately attested. Settlement status terminology differs between French and Ukrainian references, so the description uses settlement. https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/1353-19 Standard-derived alternatives are retrieval aids, not claims of prose frequency. Sources checked 2026-11-15: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dokoutchaievske ; https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Докучаєвське.

Identifiers: [Wikidata Q4229885](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4229885) · [JSON](https://md.locations.elamur.ai/free/en/ukraine/dokuchaievske/?format=json)


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