{
  "place_id": "dokuchaievsk#7652_12092",
  "wikidata": "Q2416554",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Докучаєвськ",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Dokuchaievsk",
      "why": "Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010, followed by BGN/PCGN since 2019; selected as the English main form.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Dokuchayevsk",
          "why": "Russian-based spelling common in English reporting."
        },
        {
          "name": "Dokuchaevsk",
          "why": "Russian-based spelling without marking the glide."
        },
        {
          "name": "Dokuchayivsk",
          "why": "Older Ukrainian-based English variant."
        },
        {
          "name": "Yelenovskie Karyery",
          "why": "Russian former name referring to the quarries, replaced by the present name in 1954."
        },
        {
          "name": "Dokuchaievs’k",
          "why": "Soft-sign-marked Ukrainian transliteration."
        },
        {
          "name": "Dokučaêvsʹk",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 transliteration of the Ukrainian spelling, supplied as a systematic bibliographic search form. This does not establish ordinary English usage."
        },
        {
          "name": "Докучаєвськ",
          "why": "Ukrainian original-script name, useful in quotations and bilingual indexes; not a romanized English name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Dokuchayevs’k",
          "why": "BGN/PCGN 1965 Ukrainian romanization; a historical standard superseded by adoption of the Ukrainian national system in 2019. Supplied as a systematic search form."
        },
        {
          "name": "Dokuchai͡evsʹk",
          "why": "ALA-LC 2011 Ukrainian romanization; a systematic library-catalogue search form with the prescribed ties and soft-sign marks, not a separate English exonym."
        },
        {
          "name": "Olenivski Kariery",
          "why": "Ukrainian form of the former quarry-settlement name, replaced in 1954; national-system rendering supplied for historical reference."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Dokoutchaïevsk",
      "why": "French transcription selected for reference use; no place-specific French government recommendation is claimed.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Dokuchaievsk",
          "why": "Same form as in English; an international spelling usable in French maps and references."
        },
        {
          "name": "Dokoutchaevsk",
          "why": "French variant without the diaeresis."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Dokuchaievsk is a city south of Donetsk in Donetsk Oblast. Its development is associated with limestone quarrying and the supply of raw materials to the steel industry.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Current name confirmed in the Ukrainian geographical names register: https://land.gov.ua/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/administratyvno-terytorialni-obyekty-ukrayiny_08.2025.pdf . The name commemorates the soil scientist Vasily Dokuchaev; no recent renaming is asserted. 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 . The pre-1954 name and quarrying history are documented at https://esu.com.ua/article-20536 .",
  "rank": 434,
  "slug": "dokuchaievsk"
}