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# Starobilsk

A settlement in Ukraine; local name Старобільськ.

## English name

**Starobilsk** — Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010; the same system was adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019.

Other forms in use:

- **Starobil’s’k** — Older Ukrainian transcription preserving both soft signs. BGN/PCGN 1965 Ukrainian transliteration, superseded for US/UK geographical use in 2019; supplied as a technical retrieval form.
- **Starobil's'k** — ASCII version of the soft-sign transcription.
- **Starobelsk** — Russian-based form, especially common in histories of Polish prisoners of war.
- **Starobielsk** — Polish spelling widely used in English accounts of the Soviet prisoner-of-war camp.
- **Starobìlʹsʹk** — ISO 9:1995 character transliteration of the Ukrainian name; a technical search form, not an independently attested English exonym.
- **Starobilʹsʹk** — ALA-LC Ukrainian table, 2011 edition, with its bibliographic diacritics; a catalogue retrieval form rather than a separate English exonym.

## French name

**Starobilsk** — Same as in English; retain this spelling in French. No separate French exonym is selected.

Other forms in use:

- **Starobielsk** — Polish historical spelling familiar in French accounts of Polish prisoners and the Katyn massacres.
- **Starobelsk** — Russian-based form also found in French historical accounts.

## About

Starobilsk is a town on the Aidar River in northern Luhansk Oblast. Its monastery and market-town past are important landmarks in the history of the surrounding steppe region.

## Notes

The Polish historical name is relevant to the prisoner-of-war camp; it does not indicate a current Polish-language official name.

Identifiers: [Wikidata Q987345](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q987345) · [JSON](https://md.locations.elamur.ai/free/en/ukraine/starobilsk/?format=json)


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