Snihurivka
A settlement in Ukraine; local name Снігурівка.
English name
Snihurivka — Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010, recommended by the UN in 2012 and adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019. BGN/PCGN Ukrainian system (1965), superseded for US/UK geographical naming by the 2019 agreement gives the same spelling here. ALA-LC Ukrainian table (2011 edition), for bibliographic retrieval gives the same spelling here.
Other forms in use:
- Snigirevka — Russian-based English form; useful for Soviet-era and Russian-language-derived references, rather than the preferred Ukrainian name.
- Snigiryovka — Alternative English transcription of Russian Снигирёвка.
- Snigurivka — Older mixed spelling with g; less faithful to modern Ukrainian romanization.
- Snihourivka — French-language form, useful when an English text quotes a French map, report or source title; not the English main name.
- Snìgurìvka — ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently attested press exonym.
- Снігурівка — Original Ukrainian spelling for matching local source titles or addresses quoted in English.
French name
Snihourivka — Attested French reference spelling; ou renders у.
Other forms in use:
- Snihurivka — International Ukrainian spelling also used by French media.
- Sniguiriovka — Russian-based French spelling explicitly given in the French reference entry.
About
Snihurivka is a town on the Inhulets in Mykolaiv Oblast. A railway junction and a centre for the surrounding farming district, it also became a focus of fighting during the 2022 invasion.
Notes
Record certainty includes transliteration and alias coverage; formal system outputs are not all attested press forms.
Identifiers: Wikidata Q889549 · JSON
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