Elamur LocationsHolubivka
A settlement in Ukraine; local name Голубівка.
English name
Holubivka — Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010 and recommended by the UN in 2012; also the BGN/PCGN system adopted in 2019. This spelling also coincides with BGN/PCGN 1965 and ALA-LC Ukrainian 2011.
Other forms in use:
- Kirovsk — Former Soviet name, replaced by Holubivka under Ukrainian law in 2016; still used in Russian and occupation sources.
- Golubovka — Russian form of the restored historical name, encountered in older geographical records.
- Golubìvka — ISO 9:1995 reversible transliteration of the Ukrainian spelling. Standard-derived form; medium confidence in actual use for this place, not claimed as an established English exonym.
- Голубівка — Original Ukrainian Cyrillic spelling, useful for matching local documents and quotations; not a Latin-script English form.
French name
Holoubivka — French transcription writes Ukrainian у as ou; attested in French geographical references.
Other forms in use:
- Holubivka — Same official Latin form as in English; French texts may keep u.
- Kirovsk — Former name familiar in French Soviet-period references; replaced under Ukrainian law in 2016.
- Goloubovka — Russian historical name in French transcription; distinguish it from Ukrainian-based Holoubivka.
About
Holubivka is a mining city in Luhansk Oblast on the Luhan River. It belongs to the coal-mining belt around Kadiivka and Sokolohirsk.
Notes
Renamed from Kirovsk in 2016. This is the Luhansk city, not the numerous smaller Ukrainian settlements named Holubivka.
Identifiers: Wikidata Q2234599 · JSON
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