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# Hirnyk

A settlement in Ukraine; local name Гірник.

## English name

**Hirnyk** — Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010, recommended by the UN in 2012 and adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019. BGN/PCGN Ukrainian system (1965), superseded for US/UK geographical naming by the 2019 agreement gives the same spelling here. ALA-LC Ukrainian table (2011 edition), for bibliographic retrieval gives the same spelling here.

Other forms in use:

- **Gornyak** — Russian-based English form; useful for Soviet-era and Russian-language-derived references, rather than the preferred Ukrainian name.
- **Sotsmistechko** — Earlier Ukrainian settlement name, replaced by Hirnyk in 1958.
- **Sotsgorodok** — Russian form of the earlier settlement name; historical before the 1958 change.
- **Gìrnik** — ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently attested press exonym.
- **Гірник** — Original Ukrainian spelling for matching local source titles or addresses quoted in English.

## French name

**Hirnyk** — Same form as in English; retained in the French reference entry, without a separate French exonym.

Other forms in use:

- **Gorniak** — Russian-based French form given alongside Hirnyk in reference material.

## About

Hirnyk is a small city in the Donetsk coalfield near Kurakhove. Mining shaped its development, and its name means a miner or mining worker in Ukrainian.

## Notes

Record certainty includes transliteration and alias coverage; formal system outputs are not all attested press forms.

Identifiers: [Wikidata Q2621513](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2621513) · [JSON](https://md.locations.elamur.ai/free/en/ukraine/hirnyk/?format=json)


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