Novoazovsk
A settlement in Ukraine; local name Новоазовськ.
English name
Novoazovsk — 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:
- Novoazovsk’ — Ukrainian-based spelling retaining the final soft sign.
- Budonivka — Former Ukrainian name, replaced by Novoazovsk in 1959.
- Budyonovka — Russian form of the former name, replaced in 1959.
- Novonikolayevskaya — Earlier Russian name of the Cossack stanitsa; historical, before the Soviet name.
- Novoazovs’k — BGN/PCGN Ukrainian system (1965), superseded for US/UK geographical naming by the 2019 agreement; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently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.
- Novoazovs'k — Plain-apostrophe typography of the BGN/PCGN 1965 form; standard-derived retrieval variant.
- Novoazovsʹk — ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently attested press exonym. ALA-LC Ukrainian table (2011 edition), for bibliographic retrieval; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently attested press exonym.
- Новоазовськ — Original Ukrainian spelling for matching local source titles or addresses quoted in English.
French name
Novoazovsk — Same form as in English; retained in the French reference entry, without a separate French exonym.
Other forms in use:
- Boudionovka — French Russian-based rendering of the former name, replaced in 1959.
- Novonikolaïevskaïa — French Russian-based form of the earlier stanitsa name, used for historical retrieval.
- Novonikolaievskaia — Diacritic-free typing or indexing variant of Novonikolaïevskaïa for French retrieval; not a distinct official name. Textual frequency is unverified.
About
Novoazovsk is a coastal town east of Mariupol in Donetsk Oblast. It stands near the mouth of the Hruzkyi Yelanchyk and a road crossing close to the Russian border.
Notes
Record certainty includes transliteration and alias coverage; formal system outputs are not all attested press forms.
Identifiers: Wikidata Q2353526 · JSON
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