Elamur LocationsHirnyk
A settlement in Ukraine; local name Гірник.
English name
Hirnyk — Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010, recommended by the UN in 2012 and adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019. BGN/PCGN Ukrainian system (1965), superseded for US/UK geographical naming by the 2019 agreement gives the same spelling here. ALA-LC Ukrainian table (2011 edition), for bibliographic retrieval gives the same spelling here.
Other forms in use:
- Gornyak — Russian-based English form; useful for Soviet-era and Russian-language-derived references, rather than the preferred Ukrainian name.
- Sotsmistechko — Earlier Ukrainian settlement name, replaced by Hirnyk in 1958.
- Sotsgorodok — Russian form of the earlier settlement name; historical before the 1958 change.
- Gìrnik — ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently attested press exonym.
- Гірник — Original Ukrainian spelling for matching local source titles or addresses quoted in English.
French name
Hirnyk — Same form as in English; retained in the French reference entry, without a separate French exonym.
Other forms in use:
- Gorniak — Russian-based French form given alongside Hirnyk in reference material.
About
Hirnyk is a small city in the Donetsk coalfield near Kurakhove. Mining shaped its development, and its name means a miner or mining worker in Ukrainian.
Notes
Record certainty includes transliteration and alias coverage; formal system outputs are not all attested press forms.
Identifiers: Wikidata Q2621513 · JSON
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