{
  "place_id": "holubivka#7702_12146",
  "wikidata": "Q2234599",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Голубівка",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Holubivka",
      "why": "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.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Kirovsk",
          "why": "Former Soviet name, replaced by Holubivka under Ukrainian law in 2016; still used in Russian and occupation sources."
        },
        {
          "name": "Golubovka",
          "why": "Russian form of the restored historical name, encountered in older geographical records."
        },
        {
          "name": "Golubìvka",
          "why": "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."
        },
        {
          "name": "Голубівка",
          "why": "Original Ukrainian Cyrillic spelling, useful for matching local documents and quotations; not a Latin-script English form."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Holoubivka",
      "why": "French transcription writes Ukrainian у as ou; attested in French geographical references.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Holubivka",
          "why": "Same official Latin form as in English; French texts may keep u."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kirovsk",
          "why": "Former name familiar in French Soviet-period references; replaced under Ukrainian law in 2016."
        },
        {
          "name": "Goloubovka",
          "why": "Russian historical name in French transcription; distinguish it from Ukrainian-based Holoubivka."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Holubivka is a mining city in Luhansk Oblast on the Luhan River. It belongs to the coal-mining belt around Kadiivka and Sokolohirsk.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Renamed from Kirovsk in 2016. This is the Luhansk city, not the numerous smaller Ukrainian settlements named Holubivka.",
  "rank": 287,
  "slug": "holubivka"
}