{
  "place_id": "lyman#7721_12100",
  "wikidata": "Q2234641",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Лиман",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Lyman",
      "why": "Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010, followed by BGN/PCGN since 2019; selected as the English main form.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Krasnyi Lyman",
          "why": "Former Ukrainian compound name, shortened officially in 2016."
        },
        {
          "name": "Krasny Lyman",
          "why": "Older English spelling of the former Ukrainian name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Krasny Liman",
          "why": "Russian-based former name used in English reporting."
        },
        {
          "name": "Liman",
          "why": "Russian-based spelling of the town’s shorter name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Красний Лиман",
          "why": "Former Ukrainian original-script name, replaced in 2016."
        },
        {
          "name": "Лиман",
          "why": "Ukrainian original-script name, useful in quotations and bilingual indexes; not a romanized English name."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Lyman",
      "why": "Same as in English; Lyman is established in French reporting on the war. Liman and the former Krasny Liman remain useful historical matches.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Liman",
          "why": "Russian-based French geographical spelling."
        },
        {
          "name": "Krasny Lyman",
          "why": "Former compound name in French reporting before and after the 2016 renaming."
        },
        {
          "name": "Krasny Liman",
          "why": "Russian-based French form of the former name."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "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.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "high",
  "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 .",
  "rank": 443,
  "slug": "lyman"
}