Uzyn
A settlement in Ukraine; local name Узин.
English name
Uzyn — Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010, recommended by the UN in 2012 and adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019. BGN/PCGN Ukrainian system (1965), superseded for US/UK geographical naming by the 2019 agreement gives the same spelling here. ALA-LC Ukrainian table (2011 edition), for bibliographic retrieval gives the same spelling here.
Other forms in use:
- Uzin — Russian-based English form; useful for Soviet-era and Russian-language-derived references, rather than the preferred Ukrainian name. ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently attested press exonym.
- Ouzyn — French-language form, useful when an English text quotes a French map, report or source title; not the English main name.
- Узин — Original Ukrainian spelling for matching local source titles or addresses quoted in English.
French name
Ouzyn — Attested French reference spelling; ou renders у.
Other forms in use:
- Uzyn — International Ukrainian spelling also useful in French; Ouzyn follows French ou for у.
- Ouzine — Russian-based French spelling used by the Institut français d’histoire de l’espace in its Popovitch biography.
- Ouzenytsia — Earlier name explicitly given in the French reference account; historical, not current.
- Tenberchyna — Earlier name explicitly given in the French reference account; the change year is not asserted.
About
Uzyn is a town east of Bila Tserkva in Kyiv Oblast. It is known for its former military airfield and as the birthplace of the cosmonaut Pavlo Popovych.
Notes
Record certainty includes transliteration and alias coverage; formal system outputs are not all attested press forms.
Identifiers: Wikidata Q70592 · JSON
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