{
  "place_id": "khrestivka#7675_12131",
  "wikidata": "Q2496758",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Хрестівка",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Khrestivka",
      "why": "Current Ukrainian name, romanized under the Ukrainian national system of 2010, also adopted in the BGN/PCGN agreement of 2019; selected for present-day English use.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Kirovske",
          "why": "Former Ukrainian official name in romanization; replaced in 2016."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kirovskoye",
          "why": "Russian-based form of the former name, retained in occupation-administration usage."
        },
        {
          "name": "Krestovka",
          "why": "Russian form of the historical name corresponding to Khrestivka."
        },
        {
          "name": "Hrestìvka",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 letter-for-letter transliteration of the Ukrainian name; a systematic bibliographic/search form, not a claim of established English usage."
        },
        {
          "name": "Хрестівка",
          "why": "Ukrainian original-script name, included for recognition in quotations and indexes; not an English romanization."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Khrestivka",
      "why": "Same spelling as in English; selected for current French use, without a fixed article. No place-specific Quai d’Orsay recommendation has been established here.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Kirovske",
          "why": "Former name in Ukrainian-based French references, replaced officially in 2016."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kirovskoïe",
          "why": "Russian-based French form of the former name."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Khrestivka is a city in Donetsk Oblast in the Donbas coalfield. It developed as a mining centre and is still frequently identified by its former Soviet name in older sources.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Renamed Кіровське to Хрестівка in 2016: https://donetskstat.gov.ua/region/detailed/naseleni-punkty-ta-raiony-nazvy-yakykh-buly-pereimenovani-u-2016-rotsi/20160000/ . Do not confuse with Khrustalnyi or another Kirovsk. ISO 9:1995 alternatives are systematic search aids, not independently attested exonyms.",
  "rank": 366,
  "slug": "khrestivka"
}