{
  "place_id": "hvardiiske#7506_11889",
  "wikidata": "Q2394414",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Гвардійське",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Hvardiiske",
      "why": "Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010, recommended by the UN in 2012 and adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Hvardiyske",
          "why": "Older Ukrainian-based spelling retaining y for й; also used in English accounts of the nearby airfield."
        },
        {
          "name": "Gvardeyskoye",
          "why": "Russian-based English form; useful for Soviet-era and Russian-language-derived references, rather than the preferred Ukrainian name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Sarabuz",
          "why": "Crimean Tatar historical name; also used for the railway station and airfield. Restoration as the settlement name has been proposed, not established here as an enacted change."
        },
        {
          "name": "Spat",
          "why": "Historical name of a constituent settlement, not an unrestricted synonym for the whole modern place."
        },
        {
          "name": "Hvardiïske",
          "why": "French-language form, useful when an English text quotes a French map, report or source title; not the English main name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Hvardiys’ke",
          "why": "BGN/PCGN Ukrainian system (1965), superseded for US/UK geographical naming by the 2019 agreement; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently attested press exonym."
        },
        {
          "name": "Hvardiys'ke",
          "why": "Plain-apostrophe typography of the BGN/PCGN 1965 form; standard-derived retrieval variant."
        },
        {
          "name": "Gvardìjsʹke",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently attested press exonym."
        },
        {
          "name": "Hvardiĭsʹke",
          "why": "ALA-LC Ukrainian table (2011 edition), for bibliographic retrieval; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently attested press exonym."
        },
        {
          "name": "Гвардійське",
          "why": "Original Ukrainian spelling for matching local source titles or addresses quoted in English."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Hvardiïske",
      "why": "Attested French reference spelling; the diaeresis in ï keeps the vowel sequence visible. French reporting also uses the Russian-based Gvardeïskoïe, especially for the airbase.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Gvardeïskoïe",
          "why": "Russian-based French spelling used by Le Parisien and the Fondation pour la recherche stratégique in 2022, particularly for the airbase."
        },
        {
          "name": "Sarabuz",
          "why": "Crimean Tatar historical name retained for French historical retrieval; not asserted to be the enacted current name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Hvardiiske",
          "why": "International Ukrainian spelling also found in sources quoted by French writers; Hvardiïske adds a diaeresis."
        },
        {
          "name": "Gvardeiskoie",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing or indexing variant of Gvardeïskoïe for French retrieval; not a distinct official name. Textual frequency is unverified."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Hvardiiske is a settlement north of Simferopol in Crimea, Ukraine. It stands near the Salhyr and a military airfield, and the name Sarabuz survives in accounts of the area's railway and aviation history.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "low",
  "notes": "Sarabuz restoration appears in proposals from 2023–2024; adoption was not established. Hvardiiske remains main. Sources disagree over 1944/1945 and the relationship between Sarabuz and Spat; no single amalgamation date is asserted. UA follows internationally recognized sovereignty.",
  "rank": 803,
  "slug": "hvardiiske"
}