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# Podilsk

A settlement in Ukraine; local name Подільськ.

## English name

**Podilsk** — Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010 and recommended by the UN in 2012; also the BGN/PCGN system adopted in 2019.

Other forms in use:

- **Kotovsk** — Former Soviet name, replaced by Podilsk in 2016 during decommunization.
- **Birzula** — Older name used before the Soviet renaming to Kotovsk in 1935.
- **Birzoula** — French-style form of the historical Birzula name; low confidence in use in English prose, retained for matching French quotations.
- **Podil’s’k** — BGN/PCGN 1965 geographical romanization of the Ukrainian spelling. Standard-derived form; medium confidence in actual use for this place, not claimed as an established English exonym.
- **Podìlʹsʹk** — ISO 9:1995 reversible transliteration of the Ukrainian spelling. Standard-derived form; medium confidence in actual use for this place, not claimed as an established English exonym.
- **Podilʹsʹk** — ALA-LC Ukrainian 2011 library romanization of the Ukrainian spelling. Standard-derived form; medium confidence in actual use for this place, not claimed as an established English exonym.
- **Подільськ** — Original Ukrainian Cyrillic spelling, useful for matching local documents and quotations; not a Latin-script English form.

## French name

**Podilsk** — Same current form as in English; older French histories use Kotovsk or Birzoula. Same current name as in English; French texts may also mark the final soft sign in scholarly transcription.

Other forms in use:

- **Kotovsk** — Former name familiar in French Soviet-period references; replaced in 2016.
- **Birzoula** — Older name in French transcription, used for the city before it became Kotovsk in 1935.

## About

Podilsk is a city in northern Odesa Oblast in southwestern Ukraine. It is a railway centre whose growth followed the development of lines across the Podolian borderlands.

## Notes

Birzula became Kotovsk in 1935; Kotovsk became Podilsk in 2016. Several unrelated places have used Kotovsk, so the Odesa location matters.

Identifiers: [Wikidata Q889588](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q889588) · [JSON](https://md.locations.elamur.ai/free/en/ukraine/podilsk/?format=json)


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