What is the name of the city 5th letter. Residents of Russian cities, names. The most beautiful names of cities in the world

To the question What is the name of the city? given by the author Vitaly Ivanov the best answer is It's about a ghost ship.
The city you mention was called Kexholm - now Priozersk. This story began in Finland, shortly before the so-called winter war, in 1937. It was in this city that the Swedish captain of the ship "Three Sixes" Johan Sigvard settled. His appearance in a provincial Finnish town aroused increased interest, which soon gave way to a feeling of hostility and fear. Which, by the way, there were good reasons for. Siegward was huge, strong and unsociable. He considered all Finns to be subhuman, which he sometimes reported to local residents. He had a dog of monstrous malice and a muddy breed (they said it was a cross between a Greenland husky and a polar wolf). He settled on the Far Grange, a place with a bad reputation.
One day at midnight on August 31, St. Olof's Day, a strong hurricane and thunderstorm broke out over Ladoga. The old-timers did not remember such violence of the elements. After this hurricane, the Three Sixes motorboat was never seen again. He and his crew disappeared into the depths of the lake without a trace...
Since then, the restless soul of the captain appears on Ladoga in the form of a ghostly ship with a dead man on board and poses a great danger to the living. Proof of this is the missing pioneers and four winter fishing enthusiasts. Such is the legend.... ·

Ghost ship
Now about why a storm in Lake Ladoga is more dangerous for ships than in the ocean?
The fact is that, for example, in the ocean, a long wavelength only rocks ships, but in closed bodies of water - seas and large lakes (Caspian, Baikal, Ladoga, Great Lakes) - the waves can be short and steep. They are extremely dangerous, as they are capable of not only rocking, but also capsizing the ship.
It has long been known that Lake Ladoga is “very stormy with winds.” It is not for nothing that the monks of the Valaam Monastery, in their guide to the island, cited the words of a certain Valaam monk:
When is there a storm here in the fall?
Will awaken the lake from sleep,
Then, with a frown on my brow,
Ladoga can be scary.
In the deep-water zone of the lake - near the island of Valaam - waves during a storm reach a height of 4.5 meters. Swimming here has always been risky. Thousands of ships perished in the depths of the lake. In pre-revolutionary times, Russian insurance companies even avoided insuring ships sailing with cargo along Ladoga.
As soon as a calm, moderate wave arising in the northern deep-water part of the lake enters an area with shallower depths (15-20 meters), its shape changes dramatically. The wave “breaks”, its crest overturns. A particularly dangerous “crowd” for ships arises.
The death of a large number of ships on the treacherous lake was the reason for the construction of the Ladoga bypass canals, which began under Peter I. In pre-war times, cargo shipping was mainly carried out through these canals.
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Answer from Dani-LORD[master]
Priozers

Answer from Yokwo[guru]
A meeting with a ghost ship - the "Flying Dutchman", sailing with full sails to nowhere, has long been a harbinger of black misfortune for sailors. Many argue that besides the "Dutchman", there are no other damned ships. However, such statements are not true.
The legend can be read here:
You can watch a video about Captain Siegward here;
The waves in Ladoga are practically vertical.... Now I’ll add...

On May 19, 2016, it became known about the decision of the Verkhovna Rada of Independent Ukraine to rename the city of Dnepropetrovsk to Dnepr. The renaming was initiated by the city council at the end of 2015 as part of the decommunization of the names of Ukrainian cities. The fact is that the city was renamed in honor of the Soviet party and statesman Grigory Petrovsky (1878 - 1958), and not in honor of the Apostle Peter, as might have been expected. And now the capital of the Dnepropetrovsk region of Ukraine is the city of Dnieper.

A similar situation in Russia is associated with Yekaterinburg and St. Petersburg, which, having returned to their former names, remained the centers of the Sverdlovsk and Leningrad regions, respectively. But that's not even what we're talking about. Today I just wanted to remember and find out the former names of Russian cities. Because many former names are not only unheard of, but may even seem paradoxical. For example, what is the name of Stavropol-on-Volga today? Don't remember? Because how else would you know the old name of Togliatti, if you were either not born and lived there, or had relatives there, or were a Wasserman from Russian geography. For everyone else - this article.

Cities with a population of more than 500 thousand people

To determine the order of indicating cities whose names have changed during Russian history, the principle of population decrease was chosen - from the largest to the smallest. To do this, it turned out to be sufficient to use a list of Russian cities with the corresponding rank, for example, in the Wikipedia table. It seems enough to limit ourselves to cities with a population of more than 500 thousand people, and say a few words about the rest separately. So.

Cities with a population of less than 500 thousand people

Yes, it would be completely wrong to focus only on large cities. After all, population is one thing, and proud names are another. It is difficult to imagine the current article without recalling Grebenshchikov’s line “This train flies like an apostolic rank on the way from Kalinin to Tver” and without indicating that from 1931 to 1990 Tver bore the name of the “All-Russian elder” Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin.

However, we can limit ourselves to simple mentions of how certain Russian cities were previously called. So:

Kirov – Vyatka – Khlynov

Kaliningrad – Twangste – Königsberg

Stavropol – Stavropol-Caucasian – Voroshilovsk

Sevastopol – Akhtiar

Ivanovo – Ivanovo-Voznesensk

Kurgan – Tsarevo Settlement – ​​Kurganskaya Sloboda

Vladikavkaz - Ordzhonikidze (yes, if the city had been left named in honor of Grigory Nikolaevich Ordzhonikidze, it would not have been Vlaikavkaz, Ordzhonikidze’s “Alania” that would have been the Russian football champion in 1995)

Murmansk – Romanov-on-Murman

Yoshkar-Ola – Tsarevokokshaysk – Krasnokokshaysk

Syktyvkar – Ust-Sysolsk

Dzerzhinsk – Rastyapino

Veliky Novgorod – Novgorod

Engels – Pokrovskaya Sloboda – Pokrovsk

Yes, not only cities, but also entire countries and empires are insured against large-scale renaming. It is only important that the new names are chosen to suit your taste. Here is Tula, for example. As it was founded in 1146, it remains Tula today. Maybe it’s true what they say: whatever you name a ship, that’s how it will sail. This is especially true for such huge ships as cities.

Russia has a great variety of different cities. Some are well known to everyone, but not everyone knows about the existence of some. But here we will not discuss those cities that no one knows about. Here we will try to talk about the origin of the names of some cities in Russia.

1. Moscow- The capital of our Motherland. The name of the capital comes from the Moscow River, and not vice versa, as many people think. But why the river was named Moscow is still under debate. The most common opinion is that the word comes from the ancient Slavic root “mosk” - a wet or marshy place.

2. St. Petersburg — The city was named by Peter I in honor of the Holy Apostle Peter, and not in honor of himself, as many people think.

3. Yaroslavl— The city was named after its founder Yaroslav the Wise.

4. Khabarovsk— The city is named after Yerovei Khabarov, an explorer.

5. Ufa— translated from Bashkir means “Dark Water”.

6. Ekaterinburg — The city is named after Empress Catherine I.

7. Smolensk— there are several versions of the origin of this city. The most common one is from the name of the river Smolnya (Chernozem). The second version comes from the ethnic group - Smolyan.

8. Penza- just like Moscow was named after the river, respectively Penza. The word itself is translated as “Fire water”.

9. Omsk- the same. The name comes from the river Om.

10. Perm- comes from the Vespian word “Pera Maa”, which translates as “Far Land”.

11. Murmansk- a city on Murman. Initially, the Norwegians were called Murmans, and later they began to call the coast of the Barents Sea.

12. Kolomna— there are several versions of the origin of the names of this city. The first version is that the name comes from the Kolomenka River. This river was located near the market (at that time it was called menok), that is, it turned out to be “a river near menok.” The second version says that there was a quarry nearby, after which the city was named. From the Latin "columna", which means "Column", which is depicted on the city's coat of arms.

13. Yoshkar-Ola - Red City (from Mari).

14. Gelendzhik — translated from Arabic (Helenj) means “Polar”.

15. Vorkuta- translated from German as “Bear Country”.

16. Vologda- “river with white (clean) water” translated into ancient Vespic.

17. Vladimir- everything is clear here. The city is named after the ruler Vladimir Monomakh.

18. Barnaul— There are two versions of the origin. According to the first version, the name came from a camp called “Aul Barna” (Barn is one of the nomads of the Khanate of Siberia). The second version says that the name comes from the “Barnaulka” river, which means “Wolf River” or “Muddy River”.

19. Arkhangelsk — the name of the city was given in honor of Archangel Michael.

20. Chelyabinsk - comes from the name of the fortress “Chelyaba”, which translates as “Depression” or “Deep Pit”.

21. Bryansk— the name of the city comes from the word D’bryansk, which in turn comes from the word D’br, which means cliff, ditch, slope.

22. Irkutsk— translated from Buryat means “Capricious”.

23. Kaliningrad - as you already understood, in honor of Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin.

24. Kemerovo- from the Turkic “Kemer” - slope, cliff. (Essentially the same as Bryansk).

25. Kursk- the name comes from the popular term “Kurya”, which means “river bay” or “backwater”.

26. Lipetsk— like many old cities, this city was named after the river. In this case it was the Lipovka River.

27. Ryazan- here again there is no general and unified opinion. One opinion says that the name of the city is derived from the word “Ryasa” - swamp, or from the word “Duckweed” - river algae. Another opinion says that the name is derived from the word “Erzya” - the name of the Mordovian ethnic group.

28. Ulyanovsk - the city is named after Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Ulyanov).

29. Krasnoyarsk — the city is named from the phrase “Red Yar”. Yar in the Kachin language meant a high bank or hill. That is, Krasnoyarsk can be translated as “Red Coast” or “Red Coast”.

30. Stavropol - the name is formed by the merger of two words - “Stavros”, which is translated as “Cross”, and “Polis”, which is translated as a city, that is, “City of the Cross”.

For today, this is all that concerns the origin of the names of Russian cities. In future posts we will look at the names of other cities.

A city that was “lucky” to change its names. The first name by which he was known was the name Khlynov. There are several versions of the origin of the name Khlynov. The first is based on the cry of the khly-khly birds that lived in the area where the city was formed: ... A kite flies by and shouts: “Kylno-kylno.” So the Lord himself indicated how to name the city: Kylnov...According to the second, the city was given the name of the Khlynovitsa river, which flows nearby into Vyatka, which, in turn, was so named after a breakthrough at a small dam: ...water poured through it , and the river was given the name Khlynovitsa... The third theory connects the name with the word khyn (ushkuynik, river robber), although most experts attribute a later appearance to this word.
The second name of the city was the name Vyatka. Some researchers are inclined to believe that it came from the name of the territorial group of Udmurts Vatka, who lived in these territories, which was traced back to the Udmurt word vad “otter, beaver.” However, such an etymology is completely unrealistic from a linguistic point of view. The name Vatka itself was formed from the hydronym Vyatka. According to another version, it is associated with the Vyada people, who had close relationships with the Udmurts. Some sources mistakenly associate the word Vyatka with the Vyatichi tribes who lived on the banks of the Oka. However, the word Vyatchans is recognized as the correct self-name; it has established itself as an ethno-funeral for the inhabitants of the Vyatka region. Moreover, historically such a correlation is completely unjustified: the Vyatichi did not go so far to the east. Nowadays, the most relevant version is L. N. Makarova - she considers the original toponym to be the name of the river (Old Russian in origin) with the meaning “larger” (cf. . other Russian “more”).
The city received the name Kirov after the murder in 1934 of a native of the city of Urzhum, Vyatka Territory, Sergei Mironovich Kostrikov (Kirov).
The chronology of the renaming of the city is extremely complex and ambiguous, since few historical documents have been preserved confirming the very fact of the renaming. Usually, when talking about the old names of Kirov, they use a simplified chain of transformations Khlynov - Vyatka - Kirov, and indeed, when founded in 1181, the city was named Khlynov. Starting from 1374 (the first mention of Vyatka), the word Khlynov does not appear in any official document or chronicle; on the contrary, Vyatka was found on maps of that time, and was even included in the “List of all Russian cities near and far,” where it was included section of the so-called “Zalessky” cities after Nizhny Novgorod and Kurmysh. In 1455, a wooden Kremlin with an earthen rampart was built in Vyatka for defensive purposes, which was given the name of the Khlynovitsa river flowing nearby. Subsequently, the name Khlynov spread to the township part of the city, and from 1457 the whole city began to be called Khlynov. In 1780, by the highest decree of the Empress of All-Russia Catherine II, the name Vyatka was returned to the city, and the Vyatka province was transformed into the Vyatka governorate and transferred from the Siberian province part of Kazan. On December 5, 1934, by decree of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR, Vyatka was named after Sergei Mironovich Kirov.
The city is located in a region with a large representation of national minorities, so names in other languages ​​have historically been assigned to it. In Mari it is called “Ilna” or “Ilna-Ola” (“ola” means “city” in Mari). In the Udmurt language it is called “Vatka” and “Kylno”. In Tatar the name of Kirov sounds like “Kolyn”. All these names are outdated and are not used in modern speech.

Personally, I have always dreamed of traveling to different countries and exploring more and more new places. But how to choose where to go, because the world is so huge? Maybe the names of cities will tell your heart? I decided to make a short review and selected the most beautiful of them!

The most beautiful names of cities in the world

• Pattaya - “the wind that comes before the rainy season”, southeast Thailand;
• Antananarivo - “the city of a thousand warriors”, the capital of Madagascar;
• Gargagliani is a city in Greece;
• Tegucigalpa - the “silver hills” of extraordinary beauty, the capital of Honduras;
• Clermont-Ferrand - City of extinct volcanoes" in the south of France;
• Koenigsberg - “royal coast” or “coast of kings”, the former name of Kaliningrad;
• Wolverhampton is a city in the south of the West Midlands;
• Aguascalientes is the fiery name of the city in Mexico “hot waters”;
• Reykjavik - "smoking bay", the capital of Iceland;
• Southampton - the south coast of beautiful Great Britain;
• Knokke-Heist is a city in the far north of Belgium.

The most beautiful names of Russian cities

• Pereslavl-Zalessky is a very sonorous name;
• Veliky Novgorod - I have never been to this Great City;
• Zvenigorod - it’s worth a trip if only to understand what exactly is ringing there;
• Peterhof - this place simply cannot be ordinary;
• Bodaibo - it’s even hard to believe that this is in Russia;
• Insar - there is something oriental in this;
• Shlisselburg - there is something German about it;
• Kargopol is unusual to say the least;
• Svetlogorsk is a bright name for the city;
• Kolomna is very beautiful there;
• Oranienbaum - although it’s not exactly a city, it sounds beautiful.

What beautiful names of cities in Russia and the world do you know?

People's opinions

I recently visited a country where I liked the name of the city Gura-Gumorului. In this city I visited a monastery, which was built in the 15th century, and then a hydropark with swimming pools. I remembered the name for 3 whole days, it’s even hard to pronounce. And not far from this city there is a town where I have friends, which also has the wonderful name Vatra-Dornei.

I really like the names of foreign cities: Valletta is the capital of the Mediterranean state of Malta, the name of the Italian city of Verona, but in this case also because the events of Shakespeare’s tragedy “Romeo and Juliet” took place there.

Anthracite, what is it anyway??? But the name of the city is funny.

I’ve been dreaming of visiting the city of Sortavala, there was even an opportunity, but it fell through. Even from the name it seems to me that there are deer walking there and everything around is just meadows of berries!

Marseilles
Los Angeles
Bender Sarah Bejevan
Paris
Lankaran
Zimbabwe
Saint Petersburg
Arkhangelsk

I dream of visiting Paris. My God this is an amazing city!

I only know one city, which in my opinion is the best and the most, and it has a very beautiful name, this is, of course, the city of Odessa, but do you know what the second name is for this pearl by the sea? “Southern Palmyra” doesn’t it sound right?.)

Montreal (“Royal Mountain”) is, in my opinion, the most beautiful name
Ravello
Lucerne
Milan
Genoa
Monte Carlo
Dusseldorf
Belgrade
can be listed and listed

But the funniest names of Fleas are Pskov region. Bezhanitsky district
Blyava - Orenburg region. Kuvandyk district
Bukhalovo - Tver region. Bologovsky district
Durakovo - Kaluga region. Zhukovsky district
Kozly - Tver region. Udomelsky district
Vagina - Tyumen region. Aromashevsky district
Tumors - Pskov region. Nevelsky district
Swimming trunks - Novgorod region. Pestovsky district
Popki - Volgograd region. Kotovsky district
Khrenovoe - Voronezh region. Novousmansky district
Kaka - rep. Dagestan Akhtynsky district
Pysi - Pskov region. Usvyatsky district
Sovlokh - Khanty-Mansiysk Aut. env. Berezovsky district
Lopuhi - Ryazan region. Ryazan district
Mochily - Moscow region. Serebryanoprudsky district
Scrotums - Kaluga region. Meshchovsky district
Bruises - Smolensk region. Krasninsky district
Siskovsky - Volgograd region. Podtelkovsky district
Soskovo - Moscow region. Taldomsky district
Latrine - Tambov region. Rzhaksinsky district

Murmansk
Vladikavkaz
Vladivostok
Rostov Veliky
Velikiy Novgorod
Arkhangelsk
Sochi
Anapa
Yalta
Khabarovsk
Novosibirsk

And from the world
Memphis
Cairo
Alexandria
Sparta
Rome
London
Rio de Janeiro
Havana
Montreal
San Francisco

I like the names of cities in Italy: Palermo, Milan, Florence, Venice, Naples, Vicenza...there are many names that I think are very beautiful. From Russian cities - St. Petersburg, Tolyatti.

redactorolga, the last name, by the way, is also essentially Italian.
By the way, yes. The city was named after the Italian communist leader Togliatti.

Pattaya is a gorgeous city, I will definitely return there more than once.

List of top cities in the world:

Balakovo
Saratov
NY
Boston
Hong Kong
Saint Petersburg
At this point, I have all this elite top.

Can you praise your swamp? Ahaha

I think that the coolest name is the city of Saint-Petersburg!

It’s somehow difficult for me to list the names of cities just because of the sound, if I’ve never been to them.
And of the places I visited, Venice, Paris, Odessa, Luxembourg, Brussels, Sevastopol, Riga remain in my memory and heart.
There are many more, but the most beloved city and beautiful for my soul is St. Petersburg. If you are destined to live a second life, then only in it, in this mysterious and beautiful, mystical and poetic city.