{
  "place_id": "mala-vyska#7702_11757",
  "wikidata": "Q591872",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Мала Виска",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Mala Vyska",
      "why": "Current Ukrainian name, using the Ukrainian national romanization adopted in 2010 and recommended by the UN in 2012.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Malaya Viska",
          "why": "Russian-based English spelling, relevant to Soviet-era sources and English texts drawing on Russian; not an official change of name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Mala Viska",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; a standard-derived retrieval form, not claimed as an independently attested press exonym. Confidence in textual occurrence is medium."
        },
        {
          "name": "Мала Виска",
          "why": "Original Ukrainian spelling for matching local addresses, maps or source titles cited in English."
        },
        {
          "name": "Малая Виска",
          "why": "Russian-script name recorded in local/reference sources, retained for matching quotations in English; not a preferred English spelling."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Mala Vyska",
      "why": "Same form as in English; retained in French reference usage, without a separate French exonym.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Malaïa Viska",
          "why": "Russian-based French form explicitly recorded alongside Mala Vyska."
        },
        {
          "name": "Malaia Viska",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing or indexing form of Malaïa Viska for French retrieval; not a separate official name. Independent prose frequency is unverified."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Mala Vyska is a town in Kirovohrad Oblast in central Ukraine. Its development was linked to farming and food processing, including sugar and spirit production.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Formal romanization variants are search aids and do not establish common usage in either language. Reference pages checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mala_Vyska ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mala_Vyska.",
  "rank": 971,
  "slug": "mala-vyska"
}