{
  "place_id": "toretsk#7688_12101",
  "wikidata": "Q2416525",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Торецьк",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Toretsk",
      "why": "Current Ukrainian name, romanized under the Ukrainian national system of 2010, also adopted in the BGN/PCGN agreement of 2019; selected for present-day English use.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Dzerzhynsk",
          "why": "Ukrainian-based form of the former official name, replaced in 2016."
        },
        {
          "name": "Dzerzhinsk",
          "why": "Russian-based form of the former name, common in older English references."
        },
        {
          "name": "Shcherbynivka",
          "why": "Ukrainian rendering of the pre-Soviet historical name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Shcherbinovka",
          "why": "Russian-based rendering of the pre-Soviet name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Torecʹk",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 letter-for-letter transliteration of the Ukrainian name; a systematic bibliographic/search form, not a claim of established English usage."
        },
        {
          "name": "Торецьк",
          "why": "Ukrainian original-script name, included for recognition in quotations and indexes; not an English romanization."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Toretsk",
      "why": "Same spelling as in English; selected for current French use, without a fixed article. No place-specific Quai d’Orsay recommendation has been established here.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Dzerjynsk",
          "why": "French Ukrainian-based rendering of the former name, replaced officially in 2016."
        },
        {
          "name": "Dzerjinsk",
          "why": "Russian-based French form of the former name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Chtcherbinovka",
          "why": "French transcription of the older Russian name."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Toretsk is a city in the Donbas coalfield in Donetsk Oblast. Mining shaped its growth, and the city has been heavily damaged during Russia’s war against Ukraine.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "high",
  "notes": "Renamed Дзержинськ to Торецьк in 2016: https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/984-19 . Distinct from Dzyarzhynsk in Belarus and Dzerzhinsk in Russia. No claim about current control. ISO 9:1995 alternatives are systematic search aids, not independently attested exonyms.",
  "rank": 334,
  "slug": "toretsk"
}