{
  "place_id": "popasna#7701_12131",
  "wikidata": "Q2350804",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Попасна",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Popasna",
      "why": "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.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Popasnaya",
          "why": "Russian-based name widely used in English reporting and older maps."
        },
        {
          "name": "Popasnaia",
          "why": "Alternative romanization of the Russian name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Imeni L. M. Kahanovycha",
          "why": "Former Ukrainian Soviet name honouring Lazar Kaganovich, replaced by Popasna in 1944."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kaganovich",
          "why": "Short Russian-mediated version of the former Soviet name; historical only."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Popasna",
      "why": "Same as in English; retain this spelling in French. No separate French exonym is selected.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Popasnaïa",
          "why": "French-style transcription of Russian Попасная in older and Russian-mediated sources."
        },
        {
          "name": "Popasnaya",
          "why": "International Russian-based spelling retained by some French news sources."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kaganovitch",
          "why": "French rendering of the former Soviet commemorative name; replaced by Popasna in 1944."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "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.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "high",
  "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.",
  "rank": 509,
  "slug": "popasna"
}