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# Kalmiuske

A settlement in Ukraine; local name Кальміуське.

## English name

**Kalmiuske** — Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010, recommended by the UN in 2012 and adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019.

Other forms in use:

- **Komsomolske** — Former official Ukrainian name, replaced by Kalmiuske in 2016.
- **Komsomolskoye** — Russian form of the former name; remains in Russian and occupation usage after the Ukrainian renaming of 2016.
- **Kalmiuskoye** — Russian rendering of the current Ukrainian name; medium confidence in English textual frequency.
- **Kalmiouske** — French-language form, useful when an English text quotes a French map, report or source title; not the English main name.
- **Kal’mius’ke** — BGN/PCGN Ukrainian system (1965), superseded for US/UK geographical naming by the 2019 agreement; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently attested press exonym.
- **Kal'mius'ke** — Plain-apostrophe typography of the BGN/PCGN 1965 form; standard-derived retrieval variant.
- **Kalʹmìusʹke** — ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently attested press exonym.
- **Kalʹmiusʹke** — ALA-LC Ukrainian table (2011 edition), for bibliographic retrieval; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently attested press exonym.
- **Кальміуське** — Original Ukrainian spelling for matching local source titles or addresses quoted in English.

## French name

**Kalmiouske** — Attested French geographical-index spelling; ou renders у.

Other forms in use:

- **Komsomolske** — Former Ukrainian name for French historical retrieval; replaced in 2016.
- **Komsomolskoïe** — French transcription of the Russian former name, still relevant to French reporting based on Russian sources.
- **Kalmiuske** — International Ukrainian spelling; Kalmiouske, recorded in French geographical indexes, uses French ou for у.
- **Komsomolskoie** — Diacritic-free typing or indexing variant of Komsomolskoïe for French retrieval; not a distinct official name. Textual frequency is unverified.

## About

Kalmiuske is a city on the Kalmius River in Donetsk Oblast. Limestone quarrying shaped its industrial landscape, and the former name Komsomolske remains common in older sources.

## Notes

Ukrainian renaming from Komsomolske to Kalmiuske in 2016. French Kalmiouske is attested in geographical indexes, but a dominant press preference was not established. Record certainty includes transliteration and alias coverage; formal system outputs are not all attested press forms.

Identifiers: [Wikidata Q1025487](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1025487) · [JSON](https://md.locations.elamur.ai/free/en/ukraine/kalmiuske/?format=json)


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