Elamur LocationsPopasna
A settlement in Ukraine; local name Попасна.
English name
Popasna — Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010; the same system was adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019. ISO 9:1995 gives the same string. BGN/PCGN 1965 gives the same string. ALA-LC (2011) gives the same string.
Other forms in use:
- Popasnaya — Russian-based name widely used in English reporting and older maps.
- Popasnaia — Alternative romanization of the Russian name.
- Imeni L. M. Kahanovycha — Former Ukrainian Soviet name honouring Lazar Kaganovich, replaced by Popasna in 1944.
- Kaganovich — Short Russian-mediated version of the former Soviet name; historical only.
French name
Popasna — Same as in English; retain this spelling in French. No separate French exonym is selected.
Other forms in use:
- Popasnaïa — French-style transcription of Russian Попасная in older and Russian-mediated sources.
- Popasnaya — International Russian-based spelling retained by some French news sources.
- Kaganovitch — French rendering of the former Soviet commemorative name; replaced by Popasna in 1944.
About
Popasna is a town in Luhansk Oblast whose development centred on a railway junction and railway workshops. It suffered extensive destruction during the fighting of 2022.
Notes
The former Soviet name belongs to the 1930s–1944 period; no exact starting year asserted. The description does not infer a present population from the input.
Identifiers: Wikidata Q2350804 · JSON
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