Elamur LocationsSvitlovodsk
A settlement in Ukraine; local name Світловодськ.
English name
Svitlovodsk — 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.
Other forms in use:
- Svetlovodsk — Russian-based form, common in Soviet-era English references.
- Svitlovodske — Ukrainian variant recorded in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine; not the selected current municipal form.
- Kremhes — Ukrainian-based former name, used from 1962 until 1969.
- Kremges — Russian-based rendering of the former name, 1962–1969.
- Khrushchev — Russian-based former name of the settlement and then city, replaced in 1962.
- Svitlovods’k — 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.
- Svìtlovodsʹk — 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.
- Svitlovodsʹk — 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.
- Світловодськ — Original Ukrainian Cyrillic spelling, useful for matching local documents and quotations; not a Latin-script English form.
French name
Svitlovodsk — Same current form as in English; French historical references also record Kremhes and Russian-based Kremgues.
Other forms in use:
- Svetlovodsk — Russian-based spelling in older French references.
- Kremhes — Former name used in French historical references for 1962–1969.
- Kremgues — French transcription of Russian Kremges, the former name used until 1969.
- Khrouchtchev — French rendering of the name honouring Nikita Khrushchev, replaced in 1962.
About
Svitlovodsk is a city in Kirovohrad Oblast beside the Kremenchuk Reservoir on the Dnipro. It developed around the hydroelectric project and received people displaced from settlements in the reservoir basin.
Notes
Present name adopted in 1969. Flooded Novoheorhiivsk/Novogeorgievsk was a predecessor community relocated during reservoir construction, not simply an interchangeable name at the same site.
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