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The city's article is Polotsk, and the government website also uses Polotsk (http://polotsk.vitebsk-region.gov.by/index.php/en). Both are the same name. Is there a reason for the city and district having different spellings here? Peter James (talk) 18:08, 27 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

As the government website is the only source referenced, there is not a sourced reason for the difference. On that basis, I have moved the page. - Ryk72 'c.s.n.s.' 21:11, 27 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Vitebsk Region has the Belarussian spelling as По́лацк and the Russian as По́лоцк, so we may have done a letter by letter transliteration to arrive at Polatsk. We are better going with what is in the sources, particularly the English language version of the official website. - Ryk72 'c.s.n.s.' 21:27, 27 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]