Mykolaiv
Correct spelling, explanation: name of the city in Ukraine, modern spelling.
Nikolaev
Incorrect spelling, explanation: archaic Soviet-era spelling.
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1. The title of this page has the same word repeated twice.
2. Nikolaev was pre-Soviet (1788 v 1922)
3. Nikolaev was the founding name