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# Vilniansk

A settlement in Ukraine; local name Вільнянськ.

## English name

**Vilniansk** — Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010 and adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019.

Other forms in use:

- **Volnyansk** — Russian-based English spelling, from Вольнянск; common in Soviet-period geographical material.
- **Vilnyansk** — Older Ukrainian-based spelling recorded in English name indexes; it retains y for the glide.
- **Volniansk** — French transcription of the Russian name, given alongside Vilniansk in French reference material.
- **Chervonoarmiiske** — Former Ukrainian name, replaced by Vilniansk in 1966.
- **Sofiivka** — Earlier Ukrainian name of the settlement; historical, not current.
- **Vil’nyans’k** — BGN/PCGN Ukrainian system (1965), superseded for US/UK geographical use in 2019; a standard-derived retrieval spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence.
- **Vil'nyans'k** — Plain-apostrophe typography of the BGN/PCGN 1965 retrieval form; not an additional official name.
- **Vìlʹnânsʹk** — ISO 9:1995 character transliteration of the Ukrainian name; a standard-derived retrieval form, not an established English exonym; medium confidence in textual occurrence.
- **Vilʹni͡ansʹk** — ALA-LC Ukrainian table (2011 edition), for bibliographic retrieval; standard-derived form with medium confidence in actual catalogue occurrence.
- **Вільнянськ** — Original-script Ukrainian name, useful when English texts quote local addresses or source titles.

## French name

**Vilniansk** — Same form as in English; used by Le Monde in its June 2024 coverage of the town.

Other forms in use:

- **Volniansk** — French Russian-based spelling listed in the French reference entry; older usage rather than a different town.
- **Chervonoarmiiske** — Former name for French historical searches; French prose frequency has not been verified.

## About

Vilniansk is a town northeast of Zaporizhzhia in southeastern Ukraine. Its growth was closely tied to the railway and to factories making tools and other industrial goods.

## Notes

The current name dates from 1966; this is not a post-2014 renaming.

Identifiers: [Wikidata Q713225](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q713225) · [JSON](https://md.locations.elamur.ai/free/en/ukraine/vilniansk/?format=json)


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