{
  "place_id": "zavodske#7800_11855",
  "wikidata": "Q269438",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Заводське",
  "forms": [],
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Zavodske",
      "why": "Current Ukrainian name adopted in 2016; national romanization (2010) gives Zavodske.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Chervonozavodske",
          "why": "Former Ukrainian name, replaced by Zavodske in February 2016."
        },
        {
          "name": "Chervonozavodskoye",
          "why": "Russian form of the former Ukrainian-derived name, used in pre-2016 references."
        },
        {
          "name": "Krasnozavodskoye",
          "why": "Russian translated former name explicitly given in English references; replaced in Ukrainian law in 2016."
        },
        {
          "name": "Zavodskoye",
          "why": "Russian-based Latin spelling for historical or multilingual retrieval; English prose frequency is unverified. Not a separate official renaming."
        },
        {
          "name": "Stalinka",
          "why": "Earlier Soviet name, superseded in the early 1960s; sources differ between 1961 and 1962."
        },
        {
          "name": "Zavods’ke",
          "why": "BGN/PCGN Ukrainian romanization (1965); standard-derived retrieval form, with actual English prose use unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Zavodsʹke",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; standard-derived retrieval form, with actual English prose use unverified. ALA-LC Ukrainian romanization (2011 table); standard-derived retrieval form, with actual English prose use unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Заводське",
          "why": "Original Ukrainian spelling for matching quoted local source titles, maps and addresses."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Zavodske",
      "why": "Same form as in English; used in French geographical reference headings.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Zavodskoïe",
          "why": "Russian-based French name explicitly given in the city entry."
        },
        {
          "name": "Tchervonozavodske",
          "why": "Former-name French spelling indexed in naming data; replaced by Zavodske in 2016."
        },
        {
          "name": "Stalinka",
          "why": "Earlier Soviet name retained for French archival matching; replacement year is inconsistently given as 1961 or 1962."
        },
        {
          "name": "Zavodskoie",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Zavodskoïe for French retrieval; independent prose frequency is unverified."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Zavodske is a small industrial city in Ukraine's Poltava Oblast near the Sula River. It grew around a sugar factory and received its current name during decommunization in 2016.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Chervonozavodske renamed Zavodske in February 2016. Sources disagree whether the earlier Stalinka name ended in 1961 or 1962, so aliases avoid choosing between those years. https://zv.gov.ua/documents/stratehichnyy-rozvytok/stratehiya-zavodskoyi-mth-proyekt.pdf Standard-derived alternatives are retrieval aids, not claims of prose frequency. Sources checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zavodske ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zavodske_(oblast_de_Poltava) ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zavodske,_Poltava_Oblast.",
  "rank": 1233,
  "slug": "zavodske"
}