Elamur LocationsShakhtarske
A settlement in Ukraine; local name Шахтарське.
English name
Shakhtarske — 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.
Other forms in use:
- Pershotravensk — Former Ukrainian official name in romanization; replaced in 2024.
- Pershotravens’k — Soft-sign-marked transliteration of the former Ukrainian name.
- Šahtarsʹke — ISO 9:1995 letter-for-letter transliteration of the Ukrainian name; a systematic bibliographic/search form, not a claim of established English usage.
- Шахтарське — Ukrainian original-script name, included for recognition in quotations and indexes; not an English romanization.
French name
Shakhtarske — Same current spelling as in English, selected to follow the 2024 official renaming; older French geographical references use Perchotravensk. No separate French exonym is established.
Other forms in use:
- Perchotravensk — Former name in French Ukrainian-based transcription; replaced officially in 2024.
- Pershotravensk — International spelling of the former Ukrainian name in French references.
About
Shakhtarske is a city in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast in the Western Donbas coalfield. It developed as a mining town and was formerly known as Pershotravensk.
Notes
Renamed Першотравенськ to Шахтарське in September 2024: https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/3984-IX . Not Shakhtarsk in Donetsk Oblast. ISO 9:1995 alternatives are systematic search aids, not independently attested exonyms.
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