Obukhivka
A settlement in Ukraine; local name Обухівка.
English name
Obukhivka — 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:
- Obukhovka — Russian-based English spelling used in historical and geographical references; not a separate official renaming.
- Kirovske — Former Ukrainian Soviet name, replaced by Obukhivka in 2016.
- Kirovskoye — Russian form of the former name, replaced in 2016.
- Oboukhivka — French spelling, useful when an English text cites French maps, titles or historical sources; not the selected English main form.
- Obuhìvka — ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; a standard-derived search form, not evidence of an established English exonym. Textual occurrence has not been independently verified.
- Обухівка — Original Ukrainian spelling, useful when matching quoted local maps, addresses and source titles in English.
French name
Oboukhivka — Attested French reference spelling; the adaptation follows French transcription conventions rather than English spelling.
Other forms in use:
- Oboukhovka — Russian-derived spelling explicitly recorded in French reference usage; not a change to the Ukrainian official name.
- Kirovske — Former Ukrainian name, replaced in 2016; French historical retrieval only.
- Kirovskoïe — French rendering of the Russian former name, replaced in 2016.
- Obukhivka — International spelling also useful for French source matching; the selected French main follows French reference transcription.
- Kirovskoie — Diacritic-free typing/indexing form of Kirovskoïe for French retrieval; not a separate official name. Independent prose frequency is unverified.
About
Obukhivka is a settlement northwest of Dnipro in central Ukraine. It lies near the Dnipro and the floodplain of the Oril River.
Notes
Kirovske renamed Obukhivka in 2016. This is the settlement near Dnipro, not another Obukhivka. System-derived alternatives are retrieval aids, not claims of press frequency. Reference pages checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obukhivka ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oboukhivka_(oblast_de_Dnipropetrovsk).
Identifiers: Wikidata Q598009 · JSON
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