{
  "place_id": "dokuchaievske#7771_12025",
  "wikidata": "Q4229885",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Докучаєвське",
  "forms": [],
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Dokuchaievske",
      "why": "Current Ukrainian name adopted in 2016; national romanization (2010) gives Dokuchaievske.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Komunist",
          "why": "Former Ukrainian name, replaced by Dokuchaievske in May 2016."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kommunist",
          "why": "Russian form of the former Soviet name, replaced in Ukrainian law in 2016."
        },
        {
          "name": "Dokuchayevskoye",
          "why": "Russian-based rendering of Докучаевское; distinct from the city of Dokuchaievsk."
        },
        {
          "name": "Dokoutchaievske",
          "why": "French reference spelling for matching French titles quoted in English; not an asserted common English exonym."
        },
        {
          "name": "Dokuchayevs’ke",
          "why": "BGN/PCGN Ukrainian romanization (1965); standard-derived retrieval form, with actual English prose use unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Dokučaêvsʹke",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; standard-derived retrieval form, with actual English prose use unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Dokuchai͡evsʹke",
          "why": "ALA-LC Ukrainian romanization (2011 table); standard-derived retrieval form, with actual English prose use unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Докучаєвське",
          "why": "Original Ukrainian spelling for matching quoted local source titles, maps and addresses."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Dokoutchaievske",
      "why": "French settlement reference heading uses ou and tch; no claim of government or media-wide standardization is made.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Komunist",
          "why": "Former Ukrainian name, superseded in 2016; retained for French historical-source matching."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kommunist",
          "why": "Russian spelling of the former name for French archival matching."
        },
        {
          "name": "Dokuchaievske",
          "why": "International spelling retained for French source matching; the French reference heading uses the adapted main above."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "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.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "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.",
  "rank": 1299,
  "slug": "dokuchaievske"
}