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# Kupiansk

A settlement in Ukraine; local name Куп’янськ.

## English name

**Kupiansk** — Current Ukrainian name, romanized under the Ukrainian national system of 2010, also adopted in the BGN/PCGN agreement of 2019; selected for present-day English use.

Other forms in use:

- **Kupyansk** — Russian-based form widely used in English reporting.
- **Kup'iansk** — Ukrainian-based spelling preserving the source apostrophe.
- **Kup’yans’k** — Older transliteration marking both the apostrophe and soft sign.
- **Kupyans'k** — Older Ukrainian-based spelling with a final soft-sign marker.
- **Kup’ânsʹk** — ISO 9:1995 letter-for-letter transliteration of the Ukrainian name; a systematic bibliographic/search form, not a claim of established English usage.
- **Куп’янськ** — Ukrainian original-script name, included for recognition in quotations and indexes; not an English romanization.

## French name

**Koupiansk** — French geographical transcription, selected for recognizability in French references; normally used without a fixed article. No place-specific Quai d’Orsay recommendation has been established here.

Other forms in use:

- **Kupiansk** — International spelling also encountered in French texts and map references; the selected French form follows French transcription practice.
- **Koupyansk** — Mixed French/international variant used in reporting.

## About

Kupiansk is a city in Kharkiv Oblast on the Oskil river. It developed as a transport and railway centre and has been a focus of fighting during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

## Notes

The Ukrainian apostrophe is punctuation, omitted in the 2010 national romanization. No claim about current territorial control is made. The source apostrophe is normalized typographically in local\_name; this is the same Ukrainian name. Romanization policy: https://mfa.gov.ua/en/correctua . ISO 9 forms are systematic search aids, not independently attested exonyms.

Identifiers: [Wikidata Q889555](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q889555) · [JSON](https://md.locations.elamur.ai/free/en/ukraine/kupiansk/?format=json)


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