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# Ukrainsk

A settlement in Ukraine; local name Українськ.

## English name

**Ukrainsk** — 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:

- **Ukrayinsk** — Older Ukrainian-based spelling with y marking ї.
- **Ukrainsk’** — Ukrainian spelling retaining the final soft sign.
- **Oukraïnsk** — French-language form, useful when an English text quotes a French map, report or source title; not the English main name.
- **Ukrayins’k** — BGN/PCGN Ukrainian system (1965), superseded for US/UK geographical naming by the 2019 agreement; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently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.
- **Ukrayins'k** — Plain-apostrophe typography of the BGN/PCGN 1965 form; standard-derived retrieval variant.
- **Ukraïnsʹk** — 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.
- **Українськ** — Original Ukrainian spelling for matching local source titles or addresses quoted in English.
- **Oukrainsk** — Diacritic-free typing or indexing variant of Oukraïnsk for English retrieval; not a distinct official name. Textual frequency is unverified.

## French name

**Oukraïnsk** — Attested French reference spelling; ou renders у and ï separates the vowel sequence.

Other forms in use:

- **Ukrainsk** — International form also used in French reporting; Oukraïnsk adds the French ou and diaeresis.
- **Oukrainsk** — French spelling without the diaeresis, encountered in reporting.

## About

Ukrainsk is a small city in the Donetsk coalfield near Selydove. It grew as a mining settlement and later suffered extensive damage during Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

## Notes

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

Identifiers: [Wikidata Q2496842](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2496842) · [JSON](https://md.locations.elamur.ai/free/en/ukraine/ukrainsk/?format=json)


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