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# Novoazovsk

A settlement in Ukraine; local name Новоазовськ.

## English name

**Novoazovsk** — 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:

- **Novoazovsk’** — Ukrainian-based spelling retaining the final soft sign.
- **Budonivka** — Former Ukrainian name, replaced by Novoazovsk in 1959.
- **Budyonovka** — Russian form of the former name, replaced in 1959.
- **Novonikolayevskaya** — Earlier Russian name of the Cossack stanitsa; historical, before the Soviet name.
- **Novoazovs’k** — BGN/PCGN Ukrainian system (1965), superseded for US/UK geographical naming by the 2019 agreement; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently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.
- **Novoazovs'k** — Plain-apostrophe typography of the BGN/PCGN 1965 form; standard-derived retrieval variant.
- **Novoazovsʹk** — ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently attested press exonym. 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.
- **Новоазовськ** — Original Ukrainian spelling for matching local source titles or addresses quoted in English.

## French name

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

Other forms in use:

- **Boudionovka** — French Russian-based rendering of the former name, replaced in 1959.
- **Novonikolaïevskaïa** — French Russian-based form of the earlier stanitsa name, used for historical retrieval.
- **Novonikolaievskaia** — Diacritic-free typing or indexing variant of Novonikolaïevskaïa for French retrieval; not a distinct official name. Textual frequency is unverified.

## About

Novoazovsk is a coastal town east of Mariupol in Donetsk Oblast. It stands near the mouth of the Hruzkyi Yelanchyk and a road crossing close to the Russian border.

## Notes

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

Identifiers: [Wikidata Q2353526](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2353526) · [JSON](https://md.locations.elamur.ai/free/en/ukraine/novoazovsk/?format=json)


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