The most unusual village names in Russia. Trips
It cannot be said that there are very diverse names of settlements on the territory of Russia. 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 names that glorified the city throughout the country, and without an attractive history, fame came to the settlement only because of the name.
The Moscow region also boasts interesting names for its villages. One of these is Durykino. By the way, a few residents who still stayed here are even proud of this name, because Peter I himself gave it. During the construction, the tsar needed a huge number 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.
In the list of cities with funny names, you can also include a settlement called Radio ( Odintsovskii district). Although the origin of the name is very trivial. The settlement formed around the end point of the receiving antenna at the site of the radio line test site.
In the Solnechnogorsk region there is a village called Black 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 rivulet 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 stained her snow-white shoes. It seemed to the queen that the land here was too black, and they began to call the village - Black mud.
Mamyri is another unique name for a village in the Moscow region. According to one of the legends, the name comes from the French expression Ma Marie !, that is, "Mama Marie". Legend has it that in ancient times, a Frenchman for a very long time called one of the villagers out on dates, constantly repeating "Mama Marie". So locals and nicknamed their settlement.
According to another version, the local landowner, before her death, married a Frenchman and, sensing the death, rewrote the village to her husband, indicating in the inheritance document “the village of Mon Mari to transfer to such and such”. In the future, the name was simply corrected to be more consonant with the Russian language.
By the way, in the Novo-Fominsk region there is also a village with the same name.
There is in this district the city of Novaya Lyalya (Sverdlovsk region). It is home to about 12 thousand people. The official date of foundation is considered, however, the first mention of the settlement is in the annals from 1723. In that year, they began to build a copper smelter near the village of Karaul. However, historians very much doubt that 1723 can be considered the date of foundation.
And why the city received the name 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.
Lower Sergi in Sverdlovsk region have also an interesting name, but the city got its name because of its location - on the Serga River. It was founded on the basis of railroad and an iron smelter. At the time of 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 town of Rezh, 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 also more origin of the name of the river. In the distant days, when in place modern city Dzh the first settlers appeared, one of them, seeing the steep banks at the confluence of the river into the Neva, exclaimed: "Father, he seems to be cutting the Neva." This is how the name “Dir” appeared.
There is in Opochka. It is believed that the first fortress in these places appeared 800 years ago. And the name of the settlement was due to the sedimentary rocks, which have a gray-whitish color, called "flasks", which were used for construction. So the name was preserved - 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 Bottom. Small in size and number of inhabitants, just over 7 thousand people. This name is associated with the Russian word "Dno", 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 here on railway station Nicholas II signed his abdication.
There is a small settlement on the Utro River - the town of Pytalovo. According to one version, the town was named after the name of 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 this clay figurines, which they put together with the deceased as a symbol of positive energy.
Irkutsk region
Is in Irkutsk region the village of Lokhovo, which can be included in the list of cities with funny names. Surely many have heard about this settlement, since there was even a television scandal over the renaming issue (2005). Then the locals defended the name and even gathered a rally against the renaming. So, the village of Lokhovo remained on the map, which was named, by the way, in honor of Mikhail Lokhov, a local rich farmer who did a lot for these places.
Kaluga region
There is a city with a funny name in this area - Deshovki. One of the versions of the origin of the name goes back to the time of the Mongol-Tatar yoke. When all the towns in the district were taken, except for Kozelsk, the inhabitants of the modern village of Deshovki asked for the walls of the fortified town. The inhabitants of Kozelsk took pity and let the villagers with whom the Tatars marched. This is how the name of Deshovki was preserved outside the village, that is, people who sold their fellows practically for nothing.
Oryol Region
There is another city in this district with a funny name - Mymrino, by the way, the homeland of Zyuganov G. The settlement was given such a 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 the funny name Zady. The name appeared in Soviet times due to the fact that the most profitable business for the local population was the dung trade. So they gave the village official name... Although there is another, which was earlier - Durlai, named after one of the Buryat brothers, the founders of villages in these places.
Kemerovo region
The official name of the village of Starye Worms is Starochervovo. However, the popular name stuck more and even appears at a bus stop located on the highway. It is believed that the official name comes from the word "heart", that is, red. In the old days, chervonets were made from an alloy of copper and gold that was mined here. And where the name Old Worms came from is not clear, either because the gold diggers in the process of work very much resemble worms, or because such a name is easier to pronounce.
Ryazan Oblast
This region also boasts Russian cities with unusual names. One of these is the Kind Bees. This name is associated with beekeeping. Earlier, when there was a wasteland, the monks of the Theological Monastery collected honey here in a natural apiary. In this context, the word “good” means “good” or “the best”.
By the way, there are also interesting villages in the vicinity - Dobry Sot and Paseka.
Voronezh region
There is a village Khrenovoe 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, logging took place. Later, Count Orlov founded a stud farm on these lands. By the way, there is a school of riders in the village to this day.
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 was passing here, she simply said "Crappy road", and the name of the settlement was fixed - Crappy.
There is a village in these places with the most interesting name- Vydropuzhsk. In ancient writings from the 16th century, the village is mentioned under the name 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 on the road where Catherine II often passed, there was a story about her. They say that once the queen walked in these places and was frightened by an otter. In honor of this "noble" event, the meeting of the otter and the queen, it was 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.
Zabaykalsky Krai
In the Petrovsk-Zabaikalsky region, probably, very cheerful people lived earlier. There is the village of Khokhotuy, which stands on the Duralei River, and another river flows nearby with the name of the village - Khokhotui. The settlement appeared during the construction of the Transsib (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 "laugh", that is, "the place where the road runs."
Of course, the Russian people have no problems with imagination. But with the names of most of the settlements, apparently, they did not bother too much. As a result, we have: about 44% of the titles are duplicate. A third of them are named by name (Ivanovka, Mikhailovo, Aleksandrovka ...), and a quarter by nature (Sosnovka, Berezovka, Kalinovka ...). This is understandable: before, they somehow managed without "brainstorming" and creative agencies. But among 165 thousand rural settlements, 1300 urban-type settlements and 1100 cities of Russia, there are real "pearls" of extraordinary folk thought! There are about a thousand names that are engraved in the memory. Together with the regional editions of "KP" we have chosen two hundred of them, the most, in our opinion, strange and funny.
Let's start with the Perm Territory. There is the village of Tupitsa. We do not know why she is so ...
Or here is the village of Suchkino. It is interesting how the local residents relate to this name.
It is no less interesting how the inhabitants of the village of Chuvaki introduce themselves. "My name is Valera. I'm a dude "? By the way, the sign near the village, as you can see in the photo, is worn out ... But the Dudes don't care about this.
And there is also in Perm Territory the village of Gorshki.
And the village of Rozhki, consonant with them.
There are Sparrows.
And there are Mosquitoes. Hmm, who dares to go there in the summer?
Photo: ALEXEY ZHURAVLEV true_kpru
And the village of Putino. Also available.
And here is the village of Khomyaki. "Someone seems to be eating too much !?" - I remembered from the fairy tale about Winnie the Pooh.
In addition, in the Perm Territory there are such interesting settlements as Balagury, Pakli, Hares and ... Freedom!
Fast forward to Krasnodar region... Here, not only settlements please, but also rivers. There are, for example, the rivers Herota, Ovechka, Kura-Tsetse ..
And from the villages emerged Battery, For the Motherland, Turkey, Chushka, Pyatikhatki. Among the farms - Oasis, Pervaya Sinyukha, Srednie Chuburki, Guardians Perviy, Trudovaya Armenia, Shirokaya Shchel.
But the coolest, perhaps, the name of the village in this region is Merry Life. You pass by - and that's it, the fun life is over ...
In Bashkiria, there are also settlements with life-affirming names. For example, the village of Vperyod. Isn't it a daily motivation?
- Where are you going ?
- I'm in Forward!
By the way, locals are sometimes called vperdins, then vperdyuk ... Whoever likes it. And how is it right - we have not yet figured out.
Also in Bashkiria, the village of Druzhba is known (locals call it druzhbane). And then there is Mars, Paris and Venice. In general, the universe is right in miniature.
Let's move on to the Irkutsk region. There is the village of Zady. Against the background of the pointer, they love to take pictures from the back ... But in terms of popularity among lovers of selfies, Zada bypassed the village with the sonorous name of Lokhovo.
V Kemerovo region is the village of Antibes. And with her Drachenino and Uporovka.
The Tyumen region is also famous for a large list of funny names. There is Kokuy, Partizan, Expansion, Vagina, Half, Plump, Shortness of breath, Goldobino, Sour, Beautiful, Nevolino, Elbows, Bad, Kinder, Vata, Politotdelsky, Shot.
V Chelyabinsk region, as well as in Bashkiria, also has its own Paris. And Fershanpenoise is available. And even the village of Leipzig with Berlin.
In Udmurtia, there are such unusual villages: Muki-Kaksi, Baldeika, Podmoy, Kosolapovo, Karavai, Foals, Babino, Lyuk, Chur, Uzi. And villages: Skates, Zabegalovo, Berezka, Krasny Kustar, Bannoe, Roosters, Kabanikha, Kozlovo, Sheep, Small Game and Big Game, Ubytdur, Capture, Vanya-Chumo, Adam.
But the most creative people seem to live in the Pskov region! There the cities of Dno, Opochka, Pytalovo are lit up ... And the villages: Ulcers, Torchilovo, Babka, Badgers, Bolshoi Khochuzh, Sos, Grace, New Opel, Loboc ...
... Kozyulki, Washcloths, Kissing, Teeth, Krivoshlyapy, Lamon, Nedomeki ...
... as well as Zhizhytsa, Mokriki, Tumors, Butt, Redhead, Ale, Grandfather-Kabak, Bald-Flies, Zanogi, Fast, Big Wands, New Life.
In the Sverdlovsk region, there are such cities: Nizhnie Sergi, Rezh, Novaya Lyalya (and the village of Staraya Lyalya - this is all the Novolyalinsky urban district). And the villages - Verkhnyaya Sinyachikha, Nizhnyaya Sinyachikha, Laya, Red Adui.
V Yaroslavl region- Gore-Mud, Wheat, Zhupeevo, Bukhalovo.
V Voronezh region there is crap.
In Kaluga - the village of Zhivotinka. The name is quite harmless and to the point: after all, a livestock farm is located here.
V Lipetsk region there is a village Zasosnaya. In Vologda there are as many as two villages with the name End (and there are eight of them in Russia).
In Crimea, there is the city of Saki, from which the locals made the city of Psaki. Thus, they allegedly banned the entry of the famous American woman.
There are also a lot of unusual and funny names in the Trans-Baikal Territory, for example, in the Priargunsky District, there is the village of Duroy. There is also the village of Klitschka, which is named after a mining engineer. In the Sretensky district there is the village of Bolshiye Boty. Not far from the regional capital there is the village of Ulyoty. And in the Chernyshevsky district there is the village of Ukurei. In Khiloksky district - laugh.
And in Murmansk region there is the village of Afrikanda. Afrikanda looks especially exotic under the snow.
V Saratov region there is the village of Lokh.
And in Omsk - Babezh, Big Scourges, Big Murls, Volchanka, Zagvazdino, Lezhanka, Prishib. In Samara - the village of Koshki (this is twinned with the city of Myshkin, Yaroslavl region). In Penza - Tatar Pendelka, Chulpan, Bogdaniha, Svetly Put, Rubezh, GAI. In the Vladimir region stand out: the village of Krasnaya Gorbatka, the village of Perebor, the village of Likhaya Pozhnya. In Bryansk - Mamai, Bibiki, Zaitsev Dvor, Crimea, Varna, Bald, New Scales, Damage, Gobiki, Badgers, Byakovo, Sluts, New World, Vesely, Hooks, Bobrik, Gnilevo, Usoh, Lizogubovka, Spoons, Ugrevishche, Shiryaevka, Shapkino ... And in the Khabarovsk Territory there is the village of Kondon. In the Smolensk region - the village of Boduny. In Tambovskaya - Big Rzhaksa.
In Mordovia, you can find settlements with the following names: Piksyasi, Chudinka, Red Warrior, Syryatino, Sialeevsky Maidan. In Chuvashia - the village of Bolshoye Murashkino, the village of Opytny, the village of Khachiki. In Mari El - the village of Mari El.
In Troitsky administrative district There is the village of Babenki in Moscow.
And in the Ryazan region there was once a village Lost heaven... Nobody lives there now. This is a natural boundary. It seems that a much more friendly atmosphere is in the local village of Kind Bees.
There is the village of Pyankovo in the Kostroma region.
The Altai Territory distinguished itself by the settlements Chistaya Griva, Komar, Zyatkovo, Vysokaya Griva, Dobaya Volya, Beshentsevo, Raigorod, Freedom Valley, Lokotok, Pravda.
In the Krasnoyarsk Territory, you can find Minderla, Slanting Spoons, Shalobolino and Cucumbers.
There you will also be intrigued by a village with a mysterious name Mystery. Why Mystery? It's a secret…
BY THE WAY
5 interesting facts about the settlements of Russia
1) The settlement "Central estate of the state farm named after the 40th anniversary of the Great October Revolution" - the longest name of the settlement in the country. I wonder if the locals are annoyed by the need to pronounce or write this hoo-some-long name somewhere in the documents?
2) Verkhnenovokutlumbetyevo and Starokozmodemyanovskoe - the longest merged names of settlements. It seems that there since childhood, and everyone is ready to work as an announcer on TV. After all, byaaaa, you will say where you are from ...
3) 46 settlements have two-letter names in Russia. Of these, 11 are Yar. And there is, for example, Yb - in Komi there are as many as three villages with that name. Remember this in order to dazzle your opponents when playing in the "city-village".
4) There are only two settlements in the country with the name on J. These are Yoshkar-Ola and Josefovka (a village in the Smolensk region).
5) The names of 27 settlements in Russia begin with the letter Y. Almost all of them are in Yakutia. These are, for example, Ytyk-Kyuel and Yllymakh. In general, there are cities in our country for absolutely all letters, excluding the soft and hard sign, of course.
Each of these cities is small but unique. You may want to visit one of these unusual towns.
The city you can't die in
Longyearbyen in Norway is one of the northernmost settlements and a place where you officially cannot die. There is a cemetery here, however it has not been used for 70 years.
The reason is the extreme cold, which prevents the bodies from decomposing and makes them attractive to wild animals. People who may soon die are transported to more southern parts of Norway by plane.
A city that spans two countries
Cities that are located simultaneously on the territory of two states at once are much more common than you might imagine, but this one is the most unusual of all. Büsingen am Hochrain is a German exclave in Switzerland. Economically, it is part of Switzerland, administratively - part of Germany.
It is the only city in the country to use the Swiss franc as the main currency. There are two postal codes here at once: German and Swiss. Residents of the city call both German and Swiss numbers, and Büsingen Football Club is the only German club playing in the Swiss League.
The most hellish city
V American state Michigan you can find Hell, namely a city called Hell. The origin of the name is unknown, but residents are happy to keep it in order to maintain the hellish image of their city.
Tourists happily take photos next to signs that say "Welcome to Hell," and you can buy six square centimeters of hell at the local gift shop for $ 6.66.
Austrian city in China
The Chinese are known for making a good copy of everything in the world, including an entire city. To be able to travel without leaving the country, they decided to create their own version of the Austrian town of Hallstatt.
First, a church was built, and then streets began to surround it, which are exact copies of the original. By the way, property prices in Hallstatt, China, are higher than in Austria.
The last free city
Slab City is a California city populated by homeless people, retirees, and in general people with nowhere else to go. They live in trailers and makeshift huts without addresses, running water or electricity. There are no rent, no utilities, no taxes.
All of this does not sound very convenient, but many people who have visited this city reported that it is very pleasant. Locals call their home "the last free city in America."
Cave city
Matmata in Tunisia is the city where most of the Berber underground dwellings remain inhabited.
In the seventies, above-ground houses were built here, but the locals prefer to stay in their underground dwellings. Star Wars fans will quickly realize that this place is Luke Skywalker's home.
City under one roof
An entire city in Alaska is housed in a 14-story building that was previously a major military facility. Here you will find shops, a police station, a hospital and a church.
The purpose of this solution was to save on heating, since the weather here is always cold and windy. The population of the city is 220 people.
The bluest city
The walls, doors and even stairs of the incredibly beautiful Chavin in Morocco are painted in various shades of blue.
According to one of the main theories, the city was painted by the Jews who lived here, since blue is their sacred color. Jews left this city long ago, but the tradition has remained.
Alien city
In 1947, a UFO crashed near the city of Roswell. What actually fell near the city is still unknown, but Roswell became known as the "Alien City".
Themed festivals are held here, and even the local McDonald's is decorated to match.
City on the high seas
Oil Rocks is Azerbaijani industrial city... It is located offshore on metal platforms above an oil field.
No one lives in this city on a permanent basis. About two thousand workers come here for several months to work in shifts.
City in the rock
Setenil de las Bodegas is a city in Spain that attracts the attention of tourists from all over the world, mainly due to the fact that it is built right in a large basalt rock.
There are streets over which not the sky hangs, but tons of basalt rock. It may seem that they are about to fall on you, but they have been holding for many centuries.
A city where there are more dead than living
In the city of Colma, California, there are as many as 17 cemeteries. The ratio of the dead to the living here is a thousand to one! This happened due to the fact that at one point the authorities decided to move all cemeteries from nearby San Francisco here.
Previously, the population of this town consisted exclusively of gravediggers, monument producers and florists, but in the eighties specialists from other areas began to flock here. Today the city's motto is: "It's good to be alive in Kolma!"
There are settlements on the planet with such amazing names that it is difficult to believe in the fact of their existence. And to live in the city of the Swastika or in the city of the Kingdom of Satan can, perhaps, only love with a good sense of humor. And it should be noted that these are not the most strange names from the existing ones.
1. Swastika
The city of Swastika in Ontario, Canada is a rather strange place. In fact, this is not a haven for the Nazis at all - the city was founded almost 30 years before Adolf Hitler began using the swastika. The name of the city was chosen in honor of the ancient Indian sign of prosperity and fertility.
2. Kingdom of Satan
Funnily and strangely, there are cities and geographic locations on Earth named after hell. For example, two cities in the United States (in the states of Vermont and Massachusetts) are called the Kingdom of Satan.
3. Peniston
The town of Peniston, in Yorkshire, England, probably derives its name from older forms of Welsh and English languages... Originally the name meant "Hilltop Village". Today all and sundry giggle at him.
4. Nothing
The formerly inhabited (although very few people) village of Nothing in Arizona was completely abandoned in 2005. A sign at the entrance to the city reads: “Dedicated citizens of Nothing are full of hope and faith in the need for work. For many years these people believed in Nothing, hoping for Nothing and working for Nothing. "
5. North Pole
There are cities with the name of the North Pole in the states of Alaska and New York. The New York North Pole has a theme park with live reindeer and Santa Claus.
6. Nameless
Nameless is a small town in Colorado, which got its name when a highway was planned in this place with a turn to a still non-existent city. During the construction of the road, a temporary sign with the inscription "Nameless" was installed at the turn. As a result, the name stuck.
7. Moon
To the northwest of Pittsburgh there is a town named Luna, which is probably so named because it is located in a crescent-shaped bend in the river.
8. Mars
Tourists have recently been frequenting the city of Mars in Pennsylvania. Not only is a non-working former spaceship installed in the city, it can also be said that he visited the Martians (this is what the locals are called).
9. George Washington
George Washington is the only city in the United States to bear the full name of the Founding Father.
10. Ganja
The city with the most rastaman name can be found in Azerbaijan. Moreover, this is not even a village that was named for a joke, but the second largest city in the country.
11. Chinatown
Chinatowns or Chinatowns exist in large cities around the world, but Wisconsin has whole city, which bears a similar name.
12. Batman
Everyone knows the famous comic book hero, but few people know that in Turkey, in the Batman province, on the banks of the Batman River (a tributary of the Tigris River) there is the city of Batman. The main local attractions are oil refineries and a large military air base.
13. Bastardtown
Bastardtown in County Wexford, despite its name, is a picturesque Irish seaside village.
14. Å
Locality with such a laconic name - a beautiful seaside village in the very north of Norway. Also, six other Norwegian towns, a Swedish and a Danish town have a similar name.
15. Accident
Interestingly, the town of Accident was built in the 1770s in the state of Western Maryland by accident. Two surveyors marked out the ground, randomly selecting the same oak as the anchor point. It was on that place that the city was founded.
