{
  "place_id": "uzyn#7768_11691",
  "wikidata": "Q70592",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Узин",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Uzyn",
      "why": "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 BGN/PCGN Ukrainian system (1965), superseded for US/UK geographical naming by the 2019 agreement gives the same spelling here.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.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Uzin",
          "why": "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."
        },
        {
          "name": "Ouzyn",
          "why": "French-language form, useful when an English text quotes a French map, report or source title; not the English main name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Узин",
          "why": "Original Ukrainian spelling for matching local source titles or addresses quoted in English."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Ouzyn",
      "why": "Attested French reference spelling; ou renders у.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Uzyn",
          "why": "International Ukrainian spelling also useful in French; Ouzyn follows French ou for у."
        },
        {
          "name": "Ouzine",
          "why": "Russian-based French spelling used by the Institut français d’histoire de l’espace in its Popovitch biography."
        },
        {
          "name": "Ouzenytsia",
          "why": "Earlier name explicitly given in the French reference account; historical, not current."
        },
        {
          "name": "Tenberchyna",
          "why": "Earlier name explicitly given in the French reference account; the change year is not asserted."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "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.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Record certainty includes transliteration and alias coverage; formal system outputs are not all attested press forms.",
  "rank": 820,
  "slug": "uzyn"
}