{
  "place_id": "bokovo-khrustalne#7675_12157",
  "wikidata": "Q2354462",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Боково-Хрустальне",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Bokovo-Khrustalne",
      "why": "Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010, recommended by the UN in 2012 and adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Vakhrusheve",
          "why": "Former official Ukrainian name, replaced by Bokovo-Khrustalne in 2016."
        },
        {
          "name": "Vakhrushevo",
          "why": "Russian form of the former name, still used by the occupation authorities; Ukrainian renaming in 2016."
        },
        {
          "name": "Bokovo-Khrustalnoye",
          "why": "Russian rendering of the post-2016 name; medium confidence in English textual frequency."
        },
        {
          "name": "Bokovo Khroustalne",
          "why": "French-language form, useful when an English text quotes a French map, report or source title; not the English main name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Bokovo-Khrustal’ne",
          "why": "BGN/PCGN Ukrainian system (1965), superseded for US/UK geographical naming by the 2019 agreement; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently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."
        },
        {
          "name": "Bokovo-Khrustal'ne",
          "why": "Plain-apostrophe typography of the BGN/PCGN 1965 form; standard-derived retrieval variant."
        },
        {
          "name": "Bokovo-Hrustalʹne",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently attested press exonym."
        },
        {
          "name": "Bokovo-Khrustalʹne",
          "why": "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."
        },
        {
          "name": "Боково-Хрустальне",
          "why": "Original Ukrainian spelling for matching local source titles or addresses quoted in English."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Bokovo Khroustalne",
      "why": "Attested French reference spelling; ou renders у, with a space rather than the Ukrainian hyphen.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Bokovo-Khrustalne",
          "why": "International Ukrainian form for matching source titles cited in French."
        },
        {
          "name": "Vakhrouchevo",
          "why": "Former Russian-based French name, given in the French reference entry; the Ukrainian renaming dates to 2016."
        },
        {
          "name": "Vakhroucheve",
          "why": "Ukrainian-based French form of the former name, listed in French accounts of the 2016 decommunization."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Bokovo-Khrustalne is a mining city near Khrustalnyi in Luhansk Oblast. Its development was tied to the coal industry of the Donbas, and older maps identify it as Vakhrusheve.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Renamed from Vakhrusheve in 2016, resolution 1351-VIII. Do not confuse Bokovo-Khrustalne with neighbouring Khrustalnyi, renamed from Krasnyi Luch in the same year. Record certainty includes transliteration and alias coverage; formal system outputs are not all attested press forms.",
  "rank": 806,
  "slug": "bokovo-khrustalne"
}