Oleksandrivka
A settlement in Ukraine; local name Олександрівка.
English name
Oleksandrivka — Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010, recommended by the UN in 2012 and adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019. The same string also results from BGN/PCGN Ukrainian romanization (1965). The same string also results from ALA-LC Ukrainian romanization (2011 table).
Other forms in use:
- Aleksandrovka — Russian-based Latin spelling for historical or multilingual retrieval; English prose frequency is unverified. Not a separate official renaming.
- Oleksandrìvka — ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; standard-derived retrieval form, with actual English prose use unverified.
- Олександрівка — Original Ukrainian spelling for matching quoted local source titles, maps and addresses.
French name
Oleksandrivka — Same form as in English; used in French geographical reference headings.
Other forms in use:
- Aleksandrovka — Russian-based form explicitly given in French geographical references.
About
Oleksandrivka is a settlement on the Tiasmyn River in the northern part of Ukraine's Kirovohrad Oblast. The nearby Chornyi Lis forest is associated with the region's history of Cossack and peasant resistance.
Notes
This is Oleksandrivka in northern Kirovohrad Oblast on the Tiasmyn, not one of the numerous namesakes. Sources disagree on settlement status; the description uses the neutral word settlement. Standard-derived alternatives are retrieval aids, not claims of prose frequency. Sources checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleksandrivka,_Oleksandrivka_settlement_hromada,_Kropyvnytskyi_Raion,_Kirovohrad_Oblast ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleksandrivka_(oblast_de_Kirovohrad) ; https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Олександрівка_(селище,_Кропивницький_район) ; https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/Алэксандрыўка_(Кіраваградская_вобласць).
Identifiers: Wikidata Q1999866 · JSON
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