Dokuchaievske
A settlement in Ukraine; local name Докучаєвське.
English name
Dokuchaievske — Current Ukrainian name adopted in 2016; national romanization (2010) gives Dokuchaievske.
Other forms in use:
- Komunist — Former Ukrainian name, replaced by Dokuchaievske in May 2016.
- Kommunist — Russian form of the former Soviet name, replaced in Ukrainian law in 2016.
- Dokuchayevskoye — Russian-based rendering of Докучаевское; distinct from the city of Dokuchaievsk.
- Dokoutchaievske — French reference spelling for matching French titles quoted in English; not an asserted common English exonym.
- Dokuchayevs’ke — BGN/PCGN Ukrainian romanization (1965); standard-derived retrieval form, with actual English prose use unverified.
- Dokučaêvsʹke — ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; standard-derived retrieval form, with actual English prose use unverified.
- Dokuchai͡evsʹke — ALA-LC Ukrainian romanization (2011 table); standard-derived retrieval form, with actual English prose use unverified.
- Докучаєвське — Original Ukrainian spelling for matching quoted local source titles, maps and addresses.
French name
Dokoutchaievske — French settlement reference heading uses ou and tch; no claim of government or media-wide standardization is made.
Other forms in use:
- Komunist — Former Ukrainian name, superseded in 2016; retained for French historical-source matching.
- Kommunist — Russian spelling of the former name for French archival matching.
- Dokuchaievske — International spelling retained for French source matching; the French reference heading uses the adapted main above.
About
Dokuchaievske is a settlement southeast of Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine. It is associated with the campus and history of the Kharkiv agricultural university named after soil scientist Vasily Dokuchaev.
Notes
Komunist renamed Dokuchaievske on 12 May 2016, resolution 1353-VIII. French Dokoutchaievske is separately attested. Settlement status terminology differs between French and Ukrainian references, so the description uses settlement. https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/1353-19 Standard-derived alternatives are retrieval aids, not claims of prose frequency. Sources checked 2026-11-15: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dokoutchaievske ; https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Докучаєвське.
Identifiers: Wikidata Q4229885 · JSON
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