Notes
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Proper names
1. In the English-language section of the encyclopaedia, Ukrainian geographical and other non-descriptive proper names, with the exception of personal names, are generally given in transliteration from the Cyrillic into the Roman script, using the official Ukrainian transliteration table (e.g. Харків – Kharkiv, Товариство «Обнова» – Obnova Society, «Наш Клич» – Nash Klych).
2. Personal names are given in accordance with their customary Roman-script spelling, where known, which may be based on transliteration into a Roman-script language other than English. Where such customary spellings are not known, personal names are also transliterated using the official Ukrainian transliteration table.
3. Ukrainian descriptive proper names are translated into English (e.g. Союз Українців у Великій Британії – Association of Ukrainians in Great Britain).
4. The terms ‘oblast’ and ‘raion’, which occur in some geographical names, refer to administrative territories in Ukraine and can be approximately translated as ‘region’ and ‘district’, respectively.
Glossary
Explanations of various terms are provided by means of links to the Glossary, which itself contains links to relevant articles, mainly in the Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine.
Bibliography
The bibliography at the end of an article, if present, normally includes selected printed works which expand on the subject of the article or parts of it.