Svitlodarsk
A settlement in Ukraine; local name Світлодарськ.
English name
Svitlodarsk — Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010, recommended by the UN in 2012 and adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019.
Other forms in use:
- Svetlodarsk — Russian-based English form; useful for Soviet-era and Russian-language-derived references, rather than the preferred Ukrainian name.
- Svitlodars’k — BGN/PCGN Ukrainian system (1965), superseded for US/UK geographical naming by the 2019 agreement; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently attested press exonym.
- Svitlodars'k — Plain-apostrophe typography of the BGN/PCGN 1965 form; standard-derived retrieval variant.
- Svìtlodarsʹk — ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently attested press exonym.
- Svitlodarsʹk — ALA-LC Ukrainian table (2011 edition), for bibliographic retrieval; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently attested press exonym.
- Світлодарськ — Original Ukrainian spelling for matching local source titles or addresses quoted in English.
French name
Svitlodarsk — Same form as in English; retained in the French reference entry, without a separate French exonym.
Other forms in use:
- Svetlodarsk — Russian-based form also present in French reporting.
About
Svitlodarsk is a planned industrial city near Debaltseve in Donetsk Oblast. It was built to house workers of the Vuhlehirsk thermal power station beside its cooling reservoir.
Notes
Record certainty includes transliteration and alias coverage; formal system outputs are not all attested press forms.
Identifiers: Wikidata Q2493295 · JSON
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