Cities with funny names: examples. Russian cities with unusual names

2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:47

It cannot be said that there are very diverse names of settlements on the territory of Russia. In 45% of the names are repeated. The most common are: Mikhailovka, Berezovka, Pokrovka, and there are as many as 166 settlements with the name Aleksandrovsk. But there are such names that glorified the city throughout the country, and without an attractive history, fame came to the settlement only because of the name.

Moscow Region

Moscow Region also boasts interesting names of its villages. One of these is Durykino. By the way, a few residents who still live here are even proud of this name, because Peter I himself gave it. During the construction, the king needed a huge amount of eggs, a cry was given throughout the country. The inhabitants of modern Durykino overdid it and brought not fresh, but boiled eggs to the place where the walls were erected. It was then that the king called the inhabitants of the village fools, and over time the name stuck.

The list of cities with funny names can also include a settlement called Radio (Odintsovo district). Although the origin of the name is very trivial. The settlement formed around the terminusthe point of the receiving antenna at the site of the test site for radio links.

In the Solnechnogorsk region there is a village called Chernaya Mud. There are two versions of the origin of the name. According to one of them, the name of the settlement is associated with a river that flows there and has very muddy waters. According to another legend, allegedly Catherine II, having stopped on the way from St. Petersburg to Moscow, got out of the carriage and soiled her snow-white shoes. It seemed to the queen that the land here was too black, and so they began to call the village - Black Mud.

Mamyri is another unique name for a village in the Moscow region. According to one legend, the name comes from the French expression Ma Marie!, that is, "Mother Marie." Legend has it that in ancient times, a Frenchman called one of the villagers on dates for a very long time, constantly repeating "Mama Marie." So the locals called their settlement.

According to another version, before her death, a local landowner married a Frenchman and, sensing death, rewrote the village to her husband, indicating in the hereditary document “Mon Mari village to transfer to such and such”. In the future, they simply corrected the name to be more consonant with the Russian language.

By the way, there is also a village with the same name in the Novo-Fominsk region.

Sverdlovsk Region

There is in this district the city of Novaya Lyalya (Sverdlovsk region). About 12 thousand people live in it. The official date of foundation is 1938, but the first mention of the settlement is in the annals of 1723. In thata year they began to build a copper smelter, near the village of Karaulskoye. However, historians are very doubtful that 1723 can be considered the date of foundation.

And why the city was named Novaya Lyalya (Sverdlovsk region) is not clear at all, no documented data exists. Like most cities in the Urals, this one was founded around an industrial copper mining enterprise.

Nizhnye Sergi in the Sverdlovsk region also has an interesting name, but the city got its name because of its location - on the Serga River. It was founded on the basis of the railway and iron-smelting plant. At the time of its foundation, about 20 mines had already been developed in the district.

Another city - Rezh, Sverdlovsk region, located on the river of the same name. The date of foundation is considered to be 1773. The origin of the name is not known for certain. There is a version that translated from the Mansi language means "rocky shores". Indeed, the city of Rezh in the Sverdlovsk region stands on the river of the same name, where there are more than 60 large rocks. According to another version, the name comes from the word "duct". But there is a more interesting legend about the origin of the name of the river. In ancient times, when the first settlers appeared in the place of the modern city of Rezh, one of them, seeing the steep banks at the confluence of the river with the Neva, exclaimed: "Fathers, he seems to be cutting the Neva." This is how the name "Dir" appeared.

Pskov region

There is a city of Opochka in the Pskov region. It is believed that the first fortress in these places appeared 800 years ago. BUTThe settlement got its name because of the sedimentary rocks that have a gray-whitish color, called "flask", which were used for construction. And so the name remained - the city of Opochka, which for a long time played a huge defensive role for Russia.

There are interesting names in the Pskov region. For example, the city of Dno. Small in size and number of inhabitants, a little over 7 thousand people. This name is associated with the Russian word "Bottom", which has several meanings, in particular, it means - the lowest part of the valley. But the city of Dno is known for the events of 1917. It is believed that Nicholas II signed his abdication here at the railway station.

On the Morning River there is a small settlement - the city of Pytalovo. According to one version, the town was named after the owner of these lands, Lieutenant Pytalov (1766).

Volgograd Region

There is a village in this area with an interesting name - Tsatsa. In fact, the word "tsatsa" from the Kalmyk language means "Buddhist chapel". And Buddhists in this area call the clay figurines that are placed with the dead as a symbol of positive energy.

Irkutsk Region

There is a village in the Irkutsk region Lokhovo, which can be included in the list of cities with funny names. Surely many have heard about this settlement, as there was even a television scandal on the issue of renaming (2005). Then the locals began to defend the name and even gathered a rally against the renaming. So, so andthe village of Lokhovo remained on the map, which was named, by the way, in honor of Mikhail Lokhov, a local we althy farmer who did a lot for these places.

Kaluga region

There is a town with a funny name in this area - Deshovki. One version of the origin of the name goes back to the time of the Mongol-Tatar yoke. When all the cities in the district were taken, except for Kozelsk, the inhabitants of the modern village of Deshovka asked for the walls of the fortified town. The inhabitants of Kozelsk took pity and let the villagers, with whom the Tatars passed. This is how the name of Deshovka remained behind the village, that is, people who sold their fellows almost for nothing.

Oryol Region

There is another city in this district with a funny name - Mymrino, by the way, the birthplace of Zyuganov G. The settlement was given this name by a landowner who, according to legend, had a terrible character and was very cruel.

Buryat Autonomous Okrug

There is a village in this area with a funny name Zady. The name appeared in Soviet times due to the fact that the most profitable business for the local population was the sale of manure. So the village was given its official name. Although there is another that was earlier - Durlai, named after one of the Buryat brothers, the founders of the villages in these places.

Kemerovo Region

The official name of the village of Starye Worms is Starochervovo. However, the popular name has taken root more and is even listed at a bus stop located on the highway. It is believed that the official name comes from the word "worm", that is, red. ATin the old days, chervonets were made from an alloy of copper and gold, which was mined here. And where the name Old Worms came from is not clear, either because the gold miners in the process of working are very similar to worms, or because such a name is easier to pronounce.

Ryazan region

This area also boasts Russian cities with unusual names. One of these is Good Bees. This name is associated with beekeeping. Earlier, when there was a wasteland here, the monks of the Theological Monastery collected honey here in a natural apiary. In this context, the word "kind" means "good" or "the best."

By the way, there are other interesting villages in the area - Dobry Sot and Apiary.

Voronezh Region

There is a Khrenovoye village in this area. It was founded in the 18th century. In the old days, on the banks of the Bityug River, where the village stands, there was logging. Later, Count Orlov founded a stud farm on these lands. By the way, a school of equestrians still operates in the village.

According to one version, the name was given due to the fact that horseradish grows very abundantly in these places. According to another version, when Catherine II passed here, she simply said “Bad road”, and the name for the settlement was fixed - Badass.

Tver region

There is a village in these places with an interesting name - Vydropuzhsk. In ancient writings from the 16th century, the village is referred to as Vydrobozhsk. According to one version, the name was given because of the large population of otters in these places. But since the village is located onroad, where Catherine II often passed, then there was a story about her. It is said that once the queen was walking in these places and was frightened of the otter. In honor of this "noble" event, the meeting of the otter and the queen, they decided to rename the village from Vydrobozhsk to Vydropuzhsk. But the most interesting thing is that the locals claim that there have never been otters in these places.

Zabaikalsky Krai

Very cheerful people must have lived in the Petrovsk-Zabaikalsky district. There is the village of Khokhotuy, which stands on the Duralei River, and another river flows nearby with the same name as the village - Khokhotuy. The settlement appeared during the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway (1899).

Although there is a version that the name comes from the Buryat word "hogot", which translates as "birch". According to another legend, from the word “hohtotuy”, that is, “the place where the road runs.”