{
  "place_id": "dolynska#7672_11820",
  "wikidata": "Q591822",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Долинська",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Dolynska",
      "why": "Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010; the same system was adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Dolyns’ka",
          "why": "Older Ukrainian transcription preserving the soft sign. BGN/PCGN 1965 Ukrainian transliteration, superseded for US/UK geographical use in 2019; supplied as a technical retrieval form."
        },
        {
          "name": "Dolinskaya",
          "why": "Russian-based name used in English maps and railway references."
        },
        {
          "name": "Dolinskaia",
          "why": "Alternative romanization of the Russian name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Shevchenkove",
          "why": "Former Ukrainian name, replaced by Dolynska in August 1944."
        },
        {
          "name": "Shevchenkovo",
          "why": "Russian-mediated form of the name used before the 1944 change."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kefaline",
          "why": "Earlier settlement name associated with the local landowner, preceding Shevchenkove."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kefalino",
          "why": "Russian-mediated spelling of the earlier settlement name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Dolinsʹka",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 character transliteration of the Ukrainian name; a technical search form, not an independently attested English exonym."
        },
        {
          "name": "Dolynsʹka",
          "why": "ALA-LC Ukrainian table, 2011 edition, with its bibliographic diacritics; a catalogue retrieval form rather than a separate English exonym."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Dolynska",
      "why": "Same as in English; retain this spelling in French. No separate French exonym is selected.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Dolinskaïa",
          "why": "French-style Russian-mediated form in older geographical material."
        },
        {
          "name": "Chevtchenkove",
          "why": "French-style rendering of the former Ukrainian name; replaced in 1944."
        },
        {
          "name": "Chevtchenkovo",
          "why": "French-style rendering of its former Russian counterpart."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kefalino",
          "why": "Former name encountered in historical sources; not a modern French heading."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Dolynska is a town in Kirovohrad Oblast in central Ukraine. It grew around a railway junction linking routes toward Kryvyi Rih and Mykolaiv.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "high",
  "notes": "The Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine dates the change from Shevchenkove to Dolynska to August 1944; 1957 is the year of city status, not the renaming. Reference: https://esu.com.ua/article-20610",
  "rank": 539,
  "slug": "dolynska"
}