{
  "place_id": "shakhtarske#7685_12022",
  "wikidata": "Q604607",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Шахтарське",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Shakhtarske",
      "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": "Pershotravensk",
          "why": "Former Ukrainian official name in romanization; replaced in 2024."
        },
        {
          "name": "Pershotravens’k",
          "why": "Soft-sign-marked transliteration of the former Ukrainian name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Šahtarsʹke",
          "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": "Шахтарське",
          "why": "Ukrainian original-script name, included for recognition in quotations and indexes; not an English romanization."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Shakhtarske",
      "why": "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.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Perchotravensk",
          "why": "Former name in French Ukrainian-based transcription; replaced officially in 2024."
        },
        {
          "name": "Pershotravensk",
          "why": "International spelling of the former Ukrainian name in French references."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Shakhtarske is a city in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast in the Western Donbas coalfield. It developed as a mining town and was formerly known as Pershotravensk.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "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.",
  "rank": 376,
  "slug": "shakhtarske"
}