Correct spelling, explanation: name of the city in Ukraine, modern spelling.
Incorrect spelling, explanation: archaic Soviet-era spelling.
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Kharhov is correct, tradtional for hundreds of years, spelling since 1656. many ukrainian government insituations still use Kharkov interchangeably with Kharkiv.
if any spelling is incorrect it is Kharhiv, as its a top-down enforced (and thus authoritarian) spelling introduced half a decade after the end of the USSR in Ukrainian and English speakers only started to push for this spelling in english in ~2019.