{
  "place_id": "svitlovodsk#7726_11847",
  "wikidata": "Q1011435",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Світловодськ",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Svitlovodsk",
      "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": "Svetlovodsk",
          "why": "Russian-based form, common in Soviet-era English references."
        },
        {
          "name": "Svitlovodske",
          "why": "Ukrainian variant recorded in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine; not the selected current municipal form."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kremhes",
          "why": "Ukrainian-based former name, used from 1962 until 1969."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kremges",
          "why": "Russian-based rendering of the former name, 1962–1969."
        },
        {
          "name": "Khrushchev",
          "why": "Russian-based former name of the settlement and then city, replaced in 1962."
        },
        {
          "name": "Svitlovods’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": "Svìtlovodsʹk",
          "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": "Svitlovodsʹk",
          "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": "Світловодськ",
          "why": "Original Ukrainian Cyrillic spelling, useful for matching local documents and quotations; not a Latin-script English form."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Svitlovodsk",
      "why": "Same current form as in English; French historical references also record Kremhes and Russian-based Kremgues.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Svetlovodsk",
          "why": "Russian-based spelling in older French references."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kremhes",
          "why": "Former name used in French historical references for 1962–1969."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kremgues",
          "why": "French transcription of Russian Kremges, the former name used until 1969."
        },
        {
          "name": "Khrouchtchev",
          "why": "French rendering of the name honouring Nikita Khrushchev, replaced in 1962."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "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.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "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.",
  "rank": 231,
  "slug": "svitlovodsk"
}