Elamur LocationsHostomel
A settlement in Ukraine; local name Гостомель.
English name
Hostomel — Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010; the same system was adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019.
Other forms in use:
- Hostomel’ — Older Ukrainian transcription preserving the final soft sign. BGN/PCGN 1965 Ukrainian transliteration, superseded for US/UK geographical use in 2019; supplied as a technical retrieval form.
- Hostomel' — ASCII soft-sign spelling.
- Gostomel — Russian-mediated name prominent in international reporting about the airport.
- Gostomelʹ — ISO 9:1995 character transliteration of the Ukrainian name; a technical search form, not an independently attested English exonym.
- Hostomelʹ — ALA-LC Ukrainian table, 2011 edition, with its bibliographic diacritics; a catalogue retrieval form rather than a separate English exonym.
French name
Hostomel — Same as in English; Hostomel is attested in Le Monde’s French reporting in 2022, alongside the competing Gostomel spelling.
Other forms in use:
- Gostomel — Russian-mediated spelling widely used in French reporting about the airport; Hostomel is also directly attested in Le Monde.
About
Hostomel is a settlement northwest of Kyiv in Kyiv Oblast. It is associated with glass production and with the Antonov cargo-aircraft airport, a major site of fighting in 2022.
Identifiers: Wikidata Q357038 · JSON
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