Kamianka
A settlement in Ukraine; local name Кам'янка.
English name
Kamianka — Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010, recommended by the UN in 2012 and adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019.
Other forms in use:
- Kamenka — Russian-based English form; useful for Soviet-era and Russian-language-derived references, rather than the preferred Ukrainian name.
- Kamyanka — Older Ukrainian-based spelling using ya for я.
- Kam'yanka — BGN/PCGN Ukrainian system (1965), superseded for US/UK geographical naming by the 2019 agreement; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently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.
- Kam'ânka — ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently attested press exonym.
- Кам'янка — Original Ukrainian spelling for matching local source titles or addresses quoted in English.
French name
Kamianka — Same form as in English; selected for French source matching. An established distinct French exonym or press preference was not verified.
Other forms in use:
- Kamenka — Russian-derived spelling used in French writing about Pushkin, Tchaikovsky and the Decembrists.
- Kamyanka — Older international form found in French source titles.
About
Kamianka is a town on the Tiasmyn in Cherkasy Oblast. Its former Davydov estate is associated with the Decembrist movement and with visits by Alexander Pushkin and Pyotr Tchaikovsky.
Notes
Record certainty includes transliteration and alias coverage; formal system outputs are not all attested press forms.
Identifiers: Wikidata Q13520833 · JSON
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