{
  "place_id": "vuhlehirsk#7684_12125",
  "wikidata": "Q1025478",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Вуглегірськ",
  "forms": [],
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Vuhlehirsk",
      "why": "Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010, recommended by the UN in 2012 and adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Uglegorsk",
          "why": "Russian-based English name, also used in occupation-era sources."
        },
        {
          "name": "Khatsepetivka",
          "why": "Former Ukrainian name, replaced in 1958."
        },
        {
          "name": "Khatsepetovka",
          "why": "Russian-based form of the former name, replaced in 1958."
        },
        {
          "name": "Vouhlehirsk",
          "why": "French reference spelling for matching French titles quoted in English; not an asserted common English exonym."
        },
        {
          "name": "Vuhlehirs’k",
          "why": "BGN/PCGN Ukrainian romanization (1965); standard-derived retrieval form, with actual English prose use unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Vuglegìrsʹk",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; standard-derived retrieval form, with actual English prose use unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Vuhlehirsʹk",
          "why": "ALA-LC Ukrainian romanization (2011 table); standard-derived retrieval form, with actual English prose use unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Вуглегірськ",
          "why": "Original Ukrainian spelling for matching quoted local source titles, maps and addresses."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Vouhlehirsk",
      "why": "French reference heading uses ou for у and h for Ukrainian г; Russian-based Ouglegorsk is separately quoted.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Ouglegorsk",
          "why": "Russian-based French alternative explicitly given in references."
        },
        {
          "name": "Khatsepetivka",
          "why": "Former Ukrainian name before 1958, retained for French historical searches."
        },
        {
          "name": "Khatsepetovka",
          "why": "Russian-based spelling of the former name for French archival matching."
        },
        {
          "name": "Vuhlehirsk",
          "why": "International spelling retained for French source matching; the French reference heading uses the adapted main above."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Vuhlehirsk is a small city in Ukraine's Donetsk Oblast near Debaltseve. Coal mining and railway connections shaped its development in the Donbas.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Khatsepetivka renamed Vuhlehirsk in 1958; Uglegorsk/Ouglegorsk is Russian-based, not a separate recent municipal renaming. Do not confuse the city with the similarly named Vuhledar. Standard-derived alternatives are retrieval aids, not claims of prose frequency. Sources checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vuhlehirsk ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vouhlehirsk.",
  "rank": 1296,
  "slug": "vuhlehirsk"
}