{
  "place_id": "perevalsk#7690_12156",
  "wikidata": "Q2354490",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Перевальськ",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Perevalsk",
      "why": "Current Ukrainian name, romanized under the Ukrainian national system of 2010, also adopted in the BGN/PCGN agreement of 2019; selected for present-day English use.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Pereval’sk",
          "why": "Soft-sign-marked Ukrainian or Russian romanization."
        },
        {
          "name": "Pereval'sk",
          "why": "Plain-apostrophe version of the soft-sign-marked form."
        },
        {
          "name": "Parkommuna",
          "why": "Former Soviet name, replaced by Perevalsk in 1964."
        },
        {
          "name": "Parizhskaya Kommuna",
          "why": "Expanded Russian form of the former name, referring to the Paris Commune."
        },
        {
          "name": "Perevalʹsʹk",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 letter-for-letter transliteration of the Ukrainian name; a systematic bibliographic/search form, not a claim of established English usage."
        },
        {
          "name": "Перевальськ",
          "why": "Ukrainian original-script name, included for recognition in quotations and indexes; not an English romanization."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Perevalsk",
      "why": "Same spelling as in English; selected for current French use, without a fixed article. No place-specific Quai d’Orsay recommendation has been established here.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Parkommouna",
          "why": "French transcription of the former Soviet name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Parijskaïa Kommouna",
          "why": "French transcription of the expanded Russian former name."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Perevalsk is a city in Luhansk Oblast in the Donbas industrial region. Its growth was tied to coal mining, and it forms an urban area with nearby Alchevsk.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Present name adopted in 1964; not a post-2015 decommunization renaming. Romanization policy: https://mfa.gov.ua/en/correctua . ISO 9 forms are systematic search aids, not independently attested exonyms.",
  "rank": 391,
  "slug": "perevalsk"
}