{
  "place_id": "shevchenkove#7760_12065",
  "wikidata": "Q1002607",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Шевченкове",
  "forms": [],
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Shevchenkove",
      "why": "Current Ukrainian name in national romanization (2010); recommended by the UN in 2012 and adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019. Also identical to BGN/PCGN Ukrainian romanization (1965). Also identical to ALA-LC Ukrainian romanization (2011 table).",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Shevchenkovo",
          "why": "Russian-based Latin spelling for matching older and Russian-derived English references; actual English prose frequency is unverified. Not a separate official renaming."
        },
        {
          "name": "Bulatselivka",
          "why": "Earlier Ukrainian name, replaced by Shevchenkove in 1922 according to the reference history."
        },
        {
          "name": "Bulatselovka",
          "why": "Russian form of the earlier name, replaced in 1922."
        },
        {
          "name": "Chevtchenkove",
          "why": "French reference spelling for matching French titles cited in English; not a claimed common English exonym."
        },
        {
          "name": "Ševčenkove",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; standard-derived retrieval form, with actual English prose frequency unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Шевченкове",
          "why": "Original Ukrainian spelling for matching local sources quoted in English."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Chevtchenkove",
      "why": "French geographical reference spelling, using French transcription conventions.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Shevchenkove",
          "why": "International spelling for matching Ukrainian or English source titles in French texts; the adapted French heading is given above."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Shevchenkove is a settlement on the railway between Kharkiv and Kupiansk. It grew around a railway station and bears the name of the Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Earlier Bulatselivka/Bulatselovka replaced by Shevchenkove in 1922 according to English reference history. This is the Kharkiv Oblast settlement, not another Shevchenkove. Standard-derived forms are retrieval aids, not claims of English prose frequency. Sources checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shevchenkove,_Kharkiv_Oblast ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shevchenkove_(rural_settlement) ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevtchenkove_(oblast_de_Kharkiv) ; https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Шевченкове_(селище,_Куп'янський_район) ; https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/Шэўчэнкавэ_(Харкаўская_вобласць).",
  "rank": 1339,
  "slug": "shevchenkove"
}