Kirawsk
A settlement in Belarus; local name Кіраўск.
English name
Kirawsk — Belarusian-based English reference form; Russian-based and dated national-system forms are listed separately where different.
Other forms in use:
- Kirovsk — Russian-based English form; many other towns share the name.
- Kiraŭsk — Belarusian geographical romanization of 2007, recommended by the UN in 2012; dated system form, not a claim that domestic rules remained unchanged after 2023.
- Кіраўск — Original Belarusian spelling for matching local sources quoted in English.
French name
Kirawsk — Same form as in English; used in French geographical reference headings.
Other forms in use:
- Kirovsk — Russian-based alternative explicitly given in French references.
- Kiraŭsk — Belarusian Latin form indexed in French naming data.
- Kirausk — Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Kiraŭsk for French retrieval; independent prose frequency is unverified.
About
Kirawsk is a town northeast of Babruysk in Belarus's Mahilioŭ Region. Its Soviet-era name commemorates Sergei Kirov.
Notes
Belarusian 2007/UN 2012 system labels are dated; Belarus changed its domestic rules in 2023. Sources checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirawsk ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirawsk.
Identifiers: Wikidata Q955115 · JSON
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