{
  "place_id": "sokolohirsk#7701_12142",
  "wikidata": "Q1844446",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Сокологірськ",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Sokolohirsk",
      "why": "Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010 and recommended by the UN in 2012; also the BGN/PCGN system adopted in 2019.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Pervomaisk",
          "why": "Former official name Первомайськ, replaced in September 2024; widely used in older English maps."
        },
        {
          "name": "Pervomaysk",
          "why": "Russian-based romanization of the former name, common in English reporting."
        },
        {
          "name": "Pervomais’k",
          "why": "Older Ukrainian cartographic romanization of the former name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Первомайськ",
          "why": "Former Ukrainian Cyrillic name, replaced in 2024."
        },
        {
          "name": "Первомайск",
          "why": "Russian Cyrillic name retained in Russian and occupation usage."
        },
        {
          "name": "Sokolohirs’k",
          "why": "BGN/PCGN 1965 geographical romanization of the Ukrainian spelling. Standard-derived form; medium confidence in actual use for this place, not claimed as an established English exonym."
        },
        {
          "name": "Sokologìrsʹk",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 reversible transliteration of the Ukrainian spelling. Standard-derived form; medium confidence in actual use for this place, not claimed as an established English exonym."
        },
        {
          "name": "Sokolohirsʹk",
          "why": "ALA-LC Ukrainian 2011 library romanization of the Ukrainian spelling. Standard-derived form; medium confidence in actual use for this place, not claimed as an established English exonym."
        },
        {
          "name": "Сокологірськ",
          "why": "Original Ukrainian Cyrillic spelling, useful for matching local documents and quotations; not a Latin-script English form."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Sokolohirsk",
      "why": "Current official Ukrainian Latin form selected for French readers; older French references usually have Pervomaïsk.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Pervomaïsk",
          "why": "Former name in French transcription, common in older accounts of the Luhansk mining city; replaced in 2024."
        },
        {
          "name": "Pervomaisk",
          "why": "Unaccented international spelling of the former name in French sources."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Sokolohirsk is a coal-mining city in Luhansk Oblast in eastern Ukraine. Its industrial growth was linked to the mine settlements around the Luhan River.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Renamed under resolution 3984-IX in September 2024. The separate city Pervomaisk in Mykolaiv Oblast has not acquired this name; avoid merging the two.",
  "rank": 265,
  "slug": "sokolohirsk"
}