{
  "place_id": "sosnivka#7794_11347",
  "wikidata": "Q1020055",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Соснівка",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Sosnivka",
      "why": "Current Ukrainian name, using the Ukrainian national romanization adopted in 2010 and recommended by the UN in 2012.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Sosnovka",
          "why": "Russian-based English spelling, relevant to Soviet-era sources and English texts drawing on Russian; not an official change of name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kirov",
          "why": "Early workers’ settlement name recorded before Sosnivka received its present name in 1957; medium confidence in the exact administrative naming sequence."
        },
        {
          "name": "Sosnìvka",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; a standard-derived retrieval form, not claimed as an independently attested press exonym. Confidence in textual occurrence is medium."
        },
        {
          "name": "Соснівка",
          "why": "Original Ukrainian spelling for matching local addresses, maps or source titles cited in English."
        },
        {
          "name": "Сосновка",
          "why": "Russian-script name recorded in local/reference sources, retained for matching quotations in English; not a preferred English spelling."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Sosnivka",
      "why": "Same form as in English; retained in French reference usage, without a separate French exonym.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Sosnovka",
          "why": "Russian-based French spelling given in French geographical reference material; not a separate official renaming."
        },
        {
          "name": "Sosnówka",
          "why": "Polish spelling given in French reference material."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kirov",
          "why": "Early settlement name in the French historical account; replaced in 1957."
        },
        {
          "name": "Sosnowka",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing or indexing form of Sosnówka for French retrieval; not a separate official name. Independent prose frequency is unverified."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Sosnivka is a mining town in Lviv Oblast, near Sheptytskyi in western Ukraine. It grew with the development of the Lviv–Volyn coalfield.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "low",
  "notes": "Mining town in Lviv Oblast, distinct from many villages called Sosnivka. Early Kirov naming is reported by the French reference source; the exact administrative sequence deserves final-pass review. Formal romanization variants are search aids and do not establish common usage in either language. Reference pages checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sosnivka ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sosnivka.",
  "rank": 907,
  "slug": "sosnivka"
}