{
  "place_id": "vilniansk#7663_11968",
  "wikidata": "Q713225",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Вільнянськ",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Vilniansk",
      "why": "Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010 and adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Volnyansk",
          "why": "Russian-based English spelling, from Вольнянск; common in Soviet-period geographical material."
        },
        {
          "name": "Vilnyansk",
          "why": "Older Ukrainian-based spelling recorded in English name indexes; it retains y for the glide."
        },
        {
          "name": "Volniansk",
          "why": "French transcription of the Russian name, given alongside Vilniansk in French reference material."
        },
        {
          "name": "Chervonoarmiiske",
          "why": "Former Ukrainian name, replaced by Vilniansk in 1966."
        },
        {
          "name": "Sofiivka",
          "why": "Earlier Ukrainian name of the settlement; historical, not current."
        },
        {
          "name": "Vil’nyans’k",
          "why": "BGN/PCGN Ukrainian system (1965), superseded for US/UK geographical use in 2019; a standard-derived retrieval spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence."
        },
        {
          "name": "Vil'nyans'k",
          "why": "Plain-apostrophe typography of the BGN/PCGN 1965 retrieval form; not an additional official name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Vìlʹnânsʹk",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 character transliteration of the Ukrainian name; a standard-derived retrieval form, not an established English exonym; medium confidence in textual occurrence."
        },
        {
          "name": "Vilʹni͡ansʹk",
          "why": "ALA-LC Ukrainian table (2011 edition), for bibliographic retrieval; standard-derived form with medium confidence in actual catalogue occurrence."
        },
        {
          "name": "Вільнянськ",
          "why": "Original-script Ukrainian name, useful when English texts quote local addresses or source titles."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Vilniansk",
      "why": "Same form as in English; used by Le Monde in its June 2024 coverage of the town.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Volniansk",
          "why": "French Russian-based spelling listed in the French reference entry; older usage rather than a different town."
        },
        {
          "name": "Chervonoarmiiske",
          "why": "Former name for French historical searches; French prose frequency has not been verified."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Vilniansk is a town northeast of Zaporizhzhia in southeastern Ukraine. Its growth was closely tied to the railway and to factories making tools and other industrial goods.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "The current name dates from 1966; this is not a post-2014 renaming.",
  "rank": 700,
  "slug": "vilniansk"
}