Elamur LocationsLyman
A settlement in Ukraine; local name Лиман.
English name
Lyman — Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010, followed by BGN/PCGN since 2019; selected as the English main form.
Other forms in use:
- Krasnyi Lyman — Former Ukrainian compound name, shortened officially in 2016.
- Krasny Lyman — Older English spelling of the former Ukrainian name.
- Krasny Liman — Russian-based former name used in English reporting.
- Liman — Russian-based spelling of the town’s shorter name.
- Красний Лиман — Former Ukrainian original-script name, replaced in 2016.
- Лиман — Ukrainian original-script name, useful in quotations and bilingual indexes; not a romanized English name.
French name
Lyman — Same as in English; Lyman is established in French reporting on the war. Liman and the former Krasny Liman remain useful historical matches.
Other forms in use:
- Liman — Russian-based French geographical spelling.
- Krasny Lyman — Former compound name in French reporting before and after the 2016 renaming.
- Krasny Liman — Russian-based French form of the former name.
About
Lyman is a city in Donetsk Oblast near the forests and wetlands of the Siverskyi Donets valley. It developed as a railway centre and has been heavily affected by the war in eastern Ukraine.
Notes
Renamed from Krasnyi Lyman to Lyman in 2016. No claim about the present front line is made. Romanization references: https://mfa.gov.ua/en/correctua ; https://arhiiv.eki.ee/wgrs/v3_0/rom2_uk.htm ; https://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/romanization/ukrainia.pdf .
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