Ivano-Frankove

A settlement in Ukraine; local name Івано-Франкове.

English name

Ivano-Frankove — Current Ukrainian name in national romanization (2010); selected for English geographical use. Also identical to BGN/PCGN Ukrainian romanization (1965). Also identical to ALA-LC Ukrainian romanization (2011 table).

Other forms in use:

• Yaniv — Former Ukrainian name, replaced by Ivano-Frankove in 1946.
• Janów — Polish historical name of the settlement called Yaniv in Ukrainian.
• Yanov — Russian-based form of the earlier Yaniv name.
• Yanuv — Polish-derived phonetic variant indexed in English naming data; prose frequency unverified.
• Ìvano-Frankove — ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; standard-derived retrieval form, with independent English prose frequency unverified.
• Івано-Франкове — Original Ukrainian spelling for local sources quoted or indexed in English.
• Janow — Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Janów for English retrieval; independent prose frequency unverified.

French name

Ivano-Frankove — Same as in English; the French locality reference uses this heading.

About

Ivano-Frankove is a settlement on the Vereshchytsia River west of Lviv. It lies beside the Yaniv reservoir in the wooded Roztochchia uplands and bears the name of writer Ivan Franko.

Notes

Ivano-Frankove is the Lviv Oblast settlement formerly Yaniv/Janów, not the city of Ivano-Frankivsk. Former-name replacement year checked against Ukrainian locality history. https://uma.lvivcenter.org/uk/photos/63062 Standard-derived forms are retrieval aids, not claims of English prose frequency. Sources checked 2026-11-15: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1019884 ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivano-Frankove ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivano-Frankove ; https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Івано-Франкове.

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