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# Vilnohirsk

A settlement in Ukraine; local name Вільногірськ.

## English name

**Vilnohirsk** — Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010, followed by BGN/PCGN since 2019; selected as the English main form.

Other forms in use:

- **Volnogorsk** — Russian-based name widely used in older English industrial references.
- **Vil’nohirsk** — Ukrainian transliteration retaining the medial soft sign.
- **Vil'nohirsk** — Plain-apostrophe version of the soft-sign-marked form.
- **Vìlʹnogìrsʹk** — ISO 9:1995 transliteration of the Ukrainian spelling, supplied as a systematic bibliographic search form. This does not establish ordinary English usage.
- **Вільногірськ** — Ukrainian original-script name, useful in quotations and bilingual indexes; not a romanized English name.
- **Vil’nohirs’k** — BGN/PCGN 1965 Ukrainian romanization; a historical standard superseded by adoption of the Ukrainian national system in 2019. Supplied as a systematic search form.
- **Vilʹnohirsʹk** — ALA-LC 2011 Ukrainian romanization; a systematic library-catalogue search form with the prescribed ties and soft-sign marks, not a separate English exonym.

## French name

**Vilnohirsk** — Same as in English; editorial choice for French reference use. A place-specific official French recommendation has not been established.

Other forms in use:

- **Volnogorsk** — Russian-based form in French geographical and industrial references.

## About

Vilnohirsk is a city in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast in central Ukraine. It developed around the mining and processing of heavy-mineral sands.

## Notes

No claim is made about current output or ownership of local industrial plants. Romanization references: https://mfa.gov.ua/en/correctua ; https://arhiiv.eki.ee/wgrs/v3\_0/rom2\_uk.htm ; https://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/romanization/ukrainia.pdf .

Identifiers: [Wikidata Q577225](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q577225) · [JSON](https://md.locations.elamur.ai/free/en/ukraine/vilnohirsk/?format=json)


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