There are many cities that have received their names in honor of animals. Many of them are quite large and well-known throughout the world. Among them are not only Russians, but also German, American, Greek and even African. For example, the name of the capital of Uganda - Kampala, means "antelope" in literal translation into Russian from the language of the tribes living there. The city of Ivry, France was named after the wild. Alupka, the name of the city, which is located on the Crimean peninsula and was founded by the Khazars more than a thousand years ago, translated from Greek - fox hole. Located in the state of New York, a city called Buffalo also received a name in honor of the animal, because in English it means "buffalo" or "buffalo". You can find many more interesting examples if you dig a little deeper.
History of some cities
Vorkuta, a city in Russia that was founded in 1963, has a name that means "many bears" in the language. Although there are no bears in the vicinity of this city.
Another thing Belarusian city Bobruisk. Here, according to chronicle data at the time Kievan Rus there was a village whose main occupation was fishing and beaver fishing. In some countries of the world at the beginning of the last century, these animals practically disappeared. Belarus was no exception, but the authorities intervened in time and created the Berezinsky nature reserve for animals, which helped stop the disappearance of beavers in the country. There are several monuments in the city, also dedicated to these animals, which tourists from all over the world come to take pictures with.
The Ukrainian city of Lviv, according to ancient chronicles, was founded by Prince Daniil Glalitsky. But most often the inhabitants of the city tell romantic story about a lion who stole people who dared to walk alone in the forest, and a brave knight who saved people by killing the beast.
City in Yaroslavl region, Myshkin, has been known since the 15th century. At that time it was a small village. Its name is associated with a legend. Once the head of the village was resting on the banks of the Volga. His mouse and thereby saved him from the snake crawling towards him. Since then, the mouse has been a favorite animal of the city's inhabitants.
The Swiss city of Bern, founded in 1191, got its name in honor of the bear. Duke Berthold V swore an oath that he would name the city after the first animal he killed while hunting. The bear became the trophy, and the city was given the name Bern. On the German bear is translated as Bär.
Of course, these are not all cities that are named after animals. There are many of them, and their history and origin of names are very interesting and exciting.
On May 19, 2016 it became known about the decision Verkhovna Rada independent Ukraine to rename the city of Dnepropetrovsk to Dnipro. 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 one might assume. And now the capital of the Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine is the city of Dnipro.
A similar situation in Russia is associated with Yekaterinburg and St. Petersburg, which, having returned their former names, remained the centers of the Sverdlovsk and Leningrad regions. But the conversation is not even about that. Just today I wanted to remember and find out the former names Russian cities. Because many former titles 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 can you find out the old name of Tolyatti, if you are either not born and live there, or have relatives there, or be Wasserman from Russian geography. For everyone else - the current article.
Cities with a population of more than 500 thousand people
To determine the order in which cities whose names have changed during Russian history, the principle of decreasing population was chosen - from the largest to the smallest. To do this, it turned out to be sufficient to use the list of Russian cities with the corresponding rank, for example, in the Wikipedia table. It seems that it is enough to confine ourselves to cities with a population of more than 500 thousand people, and say a few words about the rest separately. So.
| City | Former names | Notes |
| St. Petersburg | Petrograd (1914 - 1924) Leningrad (1924 - 1991) |
Yes, the child of Peter was imprinted in the history of the Great Patriotic War with the sad phrase "blockade of Leningrad." former capital Russian Empire, Petrograd was renamed in honor of the pseudonym of the leader of the world revolution. |
| Yekaterinburg | Sverdlovsk (1924 - 1991) | Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov, together with Lenin, authorized the execution royal family right in Yekaterinburg... |
| Nizhny Novgorod | Gorky (1932 - 1990) | Yes, if it were not for another pseudonym, this time the writer Alexei Maksimovich Peshkov, the cars of the local plant would be called not GAZ, but NNAZ ... |
| Samara | Kuibyshev (1935 - 1991) | Valerian Vladimirovich Kuibyshev is another associate of Lenin in the cause of the revolution. Born in Omsk, died in Moscow, but in 1917 he established Soviet power in Samara. |
| Permian | Molotov (1940 - 1957) | Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov - an ardent revolutionary and Soviet political figure. The city of Perm was renamed Molotov in honor of the 50th anniversary of the chairman of the Council at that time people's commissars USSR. Interestingly, until 1957, two more cities, Severodvinsk and Nolinsk, bore his name in the variant "Molotovsk". |
| Volgograd | Tsaritsyn (1589 - 1925) Stalingrad (1925 - 1961) |
The title of Hero City was awarded to Stalingrad in 1965, when the city lost the name of Stalin after the leader's personality cult was debunked. But Battle of Stalingrad played a decisive role in the Great Victory. |
| Krasnodar | Ekaterinodar (1793 - 1920) | Catherine's gift to the Black Sea Cossack army. |
| Tolyatti | Stavropol / Stavropol-on-Volga (1737 - 1964) | It's simple: on the Volga - so as not to be confused with the Azov Stavropol, and Togliatti - in honor of the leader of the Italian Communist Party Palmiro Togliatti, who died just in 1964. |
| Ulyanovsk | Sinbirsk (1648 - 1780) Simbirsk (1780 - 1924) | Named after real surname Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, who was born here and died in 1924. |
| Makhachkala | Petrovskoe (1844 - 1857) Petrovsk (1857 - 1921) |
During Persian campaign In 1722, the camp of the troops of Peter I was located here. It was renamed in honor of the Avar revolutionary, Bolshevik and Dagestan politician Makhach Dakhadaev. Makhach, by the way, is his pseudonym. |
| Ryazan | Pereyaslavl-Ryazansky (1095 - 1778) | Yes, Ryazan is called Ryazan three times less in time compared to its former name. |
| Naberezhnye Chelny | Brezhnev (1982 - 1988) | Yes, the Brezhnev era was short and stagnant. |
Cities with a population of less than 500 thousand people
Yes, it would be fundamentally wrong to dwell only on major cities. After all, one thing is the population, and another - proud names. 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 headman" Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin.
However, one can confine oneself to simple mentions of how certain Russian cities used to be called. So:
Kirov - Vyatka - Khlynov
Kaliningrad - Twangste - Koenigsberg
Stavropol - Stavropol-Kavkazsky - Voroshilovsk
Sevastopol - Akhtiar
Ivanovo – Ivanovo-Voznesensk
Kurgan - Tsarevo Settlement - Kurgan Sloboda
Vladikavkaz - Ordonikidze (yes, if the city had been left named after Grigory Nikolaevich Ordzhonikidze, it would have been not Vlakikavkaz, Ordzhonikidze "Alania" that was 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 new names are chosen according to taste. Here is Tula, for example. As it was founded in 1146, it remains Tula today. Maybe they say the truth, that whatever you call a ship, that's how it will sail. This is especially true for such huge ships like cities.
You can truly know yourself only through the knowledge of the surrounding world. This is where travel helps. Everyone is free to choose their own path: someone, tired of the noise of the metropolis, goes to nature - to test himself and return to the roots human life. Someone, on the contrary, rushes to places with a developed information space where every little thing is important, where the brain works to the fullest. Many begin to study the surrounding reality from their small homeland, delve into the history of the region or region, study the surroundings. As a rule, the next stage of knowing the world is a real journey through home country.
What were the names of the cities in Russia
The centuries-old history of Russia is filled with many significant further development events. These include the period Tatar-Mongol yoke, Yermak's campaign to Siberia and its annexation to the territory of the Russian state, the window cut into Europe by Peter the Great, and so on. These facts are reflected in the Russian language. For example, the words "caravan", "watermelon", "noodles", "fog", to which today's man so used to, were borrowed from Tatar language. "Camp" and "resort" were once brought from modern Germany. "Marmalade" and "actor" came from France in the nineteenth century. All of the above refers to the category of ordinary, often used in colloquial speech words. We do not think about their origin, just as we do not think about the origin of city names.
Similar historical situations had an impact on geographical names. So, "Derbent" - Persian "narrow gate". "Chita" is understood as well as "read", from Sanskrit it is translated as "to comprehend" or "to know". "Murom" comes from the Cheremis "murom", which means "a place of fun and songs." "Perm" in Vepsian means "distant land". "Ufa" literally from the Bashkir - "dark water". Similar examples many, and, digging a little deeper, you begin to understand how the names of cities and the history, culture and traditions of the peoples living in this place are connected.
Other countries can also boast of a rich history - toponyms in them have a special sense of humor. In America, for example, there is a town whose name translates as "why." In Canada, you can stumble upon "an abyss of dead bison." The name of the German commune, as it were, calls tourists to action - it translates as "kiss". It is worth noting that the names of cities named after the founder exist abroad. In America, you can find small town ok Quincy, named after John Quincy Adams, who served as Secretary of State of the United States of America.
"Wide and boundless is mother Russia" - so our ancestors used to say. The newly minted tourist is convinced of this. Quantity settlements, small and large, numbered in the thousands. This is where the real discoveries regarding uncommon toponyms begin. What are the villages of Taz and Big Baby Dolls, the Tukhlyanka River, the village of Takoe ... Often geographical names reflect the history of the place. Yes, the title Kharkov region) came from the Tatar "guzun" - crossing. Knowing this, one can understand that much earlier in this place there was an important crossing over the local river. However, only linguists can draw such conclusions. More interesting for ordinary people are the names of cities by the name of the founder, because they indicate a specific historical figure.
Folk love
Geographical names always carry some specific semantic load. Like the names of important city streets, cities named after specific person, embody the recognition of the merits of this person. Sometimes you have to sacrifice historical place names. This fact demonstrates the deep respect of the inhabitants of the settlement for the bearer of the name given small homeland. In this regard, a reasonable question arises: what cities are named after people?
Long live the revolution!
Most of the renaming of cities and towns dates back to the twentieth century. Leaders were the most respected at that time. revolutionary movement, and according to popular opinion, it was their surnames that were supposed to decorate the names of settlements. A wave of change in toponyms swept the RSFSR, in this regard, it is appropriate to answer earlier question asked(which cities are named after people) list:
- Leningrad (formerly St. Petersburg);
- Ulyanovsk (formerly Simbirsk);
- the village of Karl Marx (located in the Tver region);
- Sverdlovsk (previously and currently - Yekaterinburg);
- Kuibyshev (previously and currently - Samara);
- Kaliningrad (formerly Koenigsberg);
- Dzerzhinsk (formerly Rastyapino, Chernoye);
- Frunze (currently - Bishkek);
- Makhachkala (formerly Anzhi-Kala).
Thus, the origin of the names of cities in Russia does not always have an exclusively etymological character. Known and renaming associated with life and work significant persons. For example, the names of V. G. Belinsky and A. S. Pushkin are assigned to cities for which data have direct relationship. Khabarovsk is named after the explorer of the seventeenth century, who discovered given city. Go to title Ukrainian city Pereyaslav later added the surname of Bogdan Khmelnitsky, who contributed to the reunification of Ukraine and the Russian Empire.
Names of cities by the name of the founder
As mentioned above, during the journey through Russian Federation you can discover incredible, at first glance, geographical names. In addition to funny and vaguely familiar toponyms formed from borrowed words or from the names of famous historical figures, there are also proper names. It is logical to assume that they were named after their founder. Obviously, the origin of the names of Russian cities can have a very different background.
Yuryev-Polsky
This provincial town in the north Vladimir region- a storehouse of cultural and historical heritage of Russia. It was founded in the middle of the twelfth century by the great Moscow prince - Yuri Dolgoruky. There was a name of the city by the name of the founder. An example of a description of the area surrounding the town is "Russian field-polyushko", because this primordially Russian settlement has a rare compound name. One of the main attractions of Yuryev-Polsky is St. George's Cathedral - unique monument architecture Ancient Russia, the date of construction of which refers to the second quarter of the thirteenth century. No less important is the Archangel Michael Monastery, on the territory of which ancient churches are located.
The churches of Nikita the Martyr and the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos also deserve close attention. The construction of the complex of two buildings dates back to the end of the eighteenth century; this is what distinguishes the churches from other architectural monuments. And if the Church of the Intercession was built in the image of traditional Russian cathedrals, then the Church of Nikita the Martyr is a building designed in the Empire style, with a red brick bell tower that towers over the entire city.
Vladimir
Like the previous one, it is part of the Golden Ring of Russia. It is named after Vladimir Monomakh, whose reign dates back to the eleventh century. Vladimir is located in the region of two hundred kilometers east of Moscow. Many trials fell to his lot, which predetermined the course of the history of the whole country. The fact is that Vladimir was one of the most influential cities of Russia in the period feudal fragmentation. At that time, large administrative centers fought with each other for power in the state. In the end, Moscow won. However, this majestic city also fully claimed the title of the capital.
The centuries-old history of Vladimir is reflected in the rich culture of the city. Now thousands of tourists come here to see with their own eyes the Assumption Cathedral, built in the twelfth century, the Golden Gate, which is rightfully considered a masterpiece of architecture of Ancient Russia, the Patriarchal Gardens, the Water Tower ... The list of Vladimir's sights is not limited to this, the city has something to show the whole world !
St. Petersburg
The list of city names by the name of the founder includes cultural capital Russia - St. Petersburg. The first stone on the site of the future city was laid by Peter the Great himself, now the majestic Peter-Pavel's Fortress. It is worth noting that the first emperor of the Russian Empire named the city not by his own name, but by the name of his patron, the Apostle Peter. Nevertheless, everyone who meets with St. Petersburg understands the connection of the city with the great reformer. Russian state. And it will take more than one page to list even a small part of the sights of St. Petersburg - it is better to see everything with your own eyes.
Temryuk
This small town is located at the mouth of the Kuban, not far from Krasnodar, on the shore Sea of Azov. This settlement was founded by Prince Temryuk, son-in-law of Ivan the Terrible. AT this moment Temryuk is famous for its breathtaking landscapes and mud volcanoes. Many travelers go to this town to find peace of mind: fields, sea, forests - what else does a person need to feel truly free?
Yaroslavl
There are many names of cities named after the founder in Russia. Yaroslavl is not the last in this list. It was founded in the eleventh century by Yaroslav the Wise, who was nicknamed so for his significant contribution to the culture of the country. In terms of reputation, the city is in no way inferior to its founder - countless sights clearly demonstrate how old and majestic Yaroslavl is. Travelers from all over the world come here to see the Church of Peter and Paul, the "House with Lions", Peter and Paul Park, which carefully preserves the legacy of the great Emperor Peter Alekseevich.
But in Yaroslavl, modernity is in no way inferior to historical heritage. So, here you can see the unique Yaroslavl zoo - the only landscape-type zoo in Russia. The Yaroslavl station building is architectural complex- monument of modern monumental art. The Yaroslavl Museum-Reserve is rightly called the heart of the city. Located in the very center, it carefully protects the oldest Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery and several churches. Antiquity side by side with modernity - this is what the real Yaroslavl is.
Everywhere you look - everywhere the opening
Diversity geographical names in Russia is amazing. A person who travels around his native country for the first time always discovers something new for himself. Here are funny toponyms, whose meaning can be understood only by looking into an etymological dictionary or a history guide, and a settlement whose name changed depending on the course modern history, and the name of the city after the name of the founder ... The list is long. It’s better to take the time to see it all with your own eyes.
Street names after famous people
a) scientists:
Dokuchaeva
Dokuchaev Vasily Vasilievich(1846 - 1903) - Russian naturalist, a prominent scientist who wrote many works on soil science.
Botkin
Named after famous doctor, professor and public figure S. P. Botkin.
Botkin Sergei Pavlovich(1832 - 1889). In 1855, Botkin was engaged in a number of medical clinics abroad and in Russia. Was honorary member Moscow and Kazan universities, 35 Russian and 9 foreign medical societies.
Ukhtomsky
Ukhtomsky Alexey Alekseevich(1875-1942) - Russian physiologist, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1935). Laureate of the Lenin Prize (1932). The creator of the doctrine of the dominant, the author of many works on physiology.
Lomonosov
Lomonosov Mikhail Vasilievich(1711-1765) - the first Russian natural scientist of world importance, chemist and physicist, founder of physical chemistry, astronomer, instrument maker, geographer, metallurgist, geologist, poet, who laid the foundations of modern Russian literary language, artist, historian, champion of the development of national education, science and economics, founder of molecular kinetic theory, science of glass. Developed a project for the Moscow state university later named after him. Discovered the existence of an atmosphere on Venus.
Mendeleev
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev(1834-1907) - Russian scientist and public figure. Chemist, physical chemist, physicist, metrologist, economist, technologist, geologist, meteorologist, teacher, balloonist, encyclopedist. One of the most famous discoveries -- periodic law chemical elements.
b) Russian naval commanders
Admiral Nakhimov
Nakhimov Pavel Stepanovich(1802-1855) - Russian naval commander, admiral, hero Sevastopol defense. During the Great Patriotic War On March 3, 1944, the Nakhimov medal and the Order of Nakhimov of the 1st and 2nd degrees were approved.
Admiral Ushakov
Ushakov Fedor Fedorovich(1744 - 1817) - Russian naval commander, admiral, participant in Russian - Turkish war 1787. During the Patriotic War of 1812 he was elected head of the militia of the Tambov province.
Street names in honor of state, public and political figures
Antonova-Ovseenko
Antonova-Ovseenko Vladimir Alexandrovich(1883-1939) - member of the ASDLP since 1902. Active member October revolution. In the years civil war was the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian fleet.
Karl Marx
Karl Heinrich Marx (1818- 1883)- German philosopher, economist, political journalist. His scientific works and publications formed in philosophy dialectical and historical materialism, in economics - the theory of surplus value, in politics - the theory of class struggle. These directions became the basis of the communist and socialist movement and were called "Marxism".
Kikvidze
Kikvidze Vasily Isidorovich(1895-1919) - an active participant in the civil war. He commanded a number of units of the Southwestern Front.
Lavrov
Lavrov Andrey Sergeevich(1886-1936) - member of the Communist Party since 1905, since the spring of 1921, chairman of the Council of Workers' and Peasants' Deputies of the Tambov province.
Violet
Fioletov Ivan Timofeevich(1883-1918) - a participant in the struggle for Soviet power in Azerbaijan. Since April 25, 1918 - a member of the Baku Council of People's Commissars, for the affairs of the National Economy.
Schlichter
Shlikhter Alexander Grigorievich(1868-1940) - Soviet statesman, doctor economic sciences. From 1920 to 1921, Schlichter was the chairman of the Tambov Provincial Executive Committee.
Telman
Ernst Thalmann(1886-1944) - leader of the German and international labor movement.
Usievich
Usievich Grigory Alexandrovich(1890-1918) Member of the Communist Party since 1907.
Volodarsky
On November 25, 1911, the City Duma gave it the name Gavryushenskaya. On March 16, 1938, it was renamed Volodarsky Street.
Volodarsky Moses Markovich(1881-1919) - active participant armed uprising in Petrograd, was a member of the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, a Bolshevik agitator.
Kotovsky
On February 27, 1951, the newly designed street was named after Kotovsky Grigory Ivanovich.
Kotovsky Grigory Ivanovich(1881-1925) - Soviet military and political leader, participant in the Civil War.
Chernyshevsky
Named after Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsko Go (1828-1889) - revolutionary democrat, writer, literary critic and a publicist.
Frunze
Frunze Mikhail Vasilievich(1885-1925) - party, statesman and military leader. An active participant in the revolution of 1905-1907 and the October Revolution.
Dobrolyubova
On May 25, 1953, the executive committee of the City Council named the newly formed street after Dobrolyubov. The street is named after the revolutionary democrat, philosopher, literary critic Nikolai Alexandrovich Dobrolyubov (1836-1861).
Boris Vasiliev
Vasilyev Boris Afanasyevich, since 1904 a member of the Bolshevik Party. From 1921 to 1922 worked as secretary of the Tambov Provincial Committee.
August - Bebel
August - Bebel(1840 - 1913) - a prominent figure in the German and international movement, the founder and leader of the German social democracy and the II International. Author famous book"Women and Socialism".
Chichkanova
Chichkanov Mikhail Dmitrievich(1889-1919) - in March 1918 he was elected chairman of the city executive committee of the provincial council.
Bohdan Khmelnytsky
On April 9, 1957, the executive committee of the city council named the newly formed street in memory of the outstanding Ukrainian statesman and commander, the hetman of Ukraine, who actively contributed to the reunification of Ukraine with Russia, Bohdan Khmelnytsky (1595 - 1667).
Uborevich
Ieronim Petrovich Uborevich (full surname: Uborevich-Guborevich) - military and political figure, commander of the 1st rank. In January-February 1918 - commander of the Red Guard detachment in Bessarabia, fought against the Romanian and Austro-German troops, wounded, captured.
Kuibyshev
Kuibyshev Valerian Vladimirovich(1888-1935) - a prominent Soviet party and statesman. Led the fight to establish Soviet power in the Samara province.
conclusions
Urbanonyms are the most mobile and changeable layer of toponymic vocabulary, they contain a large amount of information about traditions, foundations, originality of mentality and features of the worldview that characterize a particular language community.
Chapter II, when considering and analyzing urbanonyms, is connected with the study of proper names and determining the status of urbanonyms in toponymy and onomastics. Here, an attempt is made to make a theoretical-linguistic and cultural understanding of the specifics of the names of intra-urban objects.
I analyzed 80 units. As a result of my research, I found:
55 one-piece and 25 one-piece units.
23 street names in honor of the Heroes of the Soviet Union.
Street names in honor of famous creative figures, including 18 writers, 1 painter and 1 musician.
Street names in honor famous people, including 7 scientists and 2 Russian naval commanders.
28 street names in honor of state, public and political figures.
The cities of the USSR, named after people, will not cause the slightest surprise in our compatriot. All of us have long been accustomed to a similar tradition in the names of administrative territories and geographical objects. We are quite familiar with the countless streets of Vladimir Lenin, the boulevards of Fyodor Dostoevsky and the avenues of Vladimir Putin. In the overwhelming majority of cases, cities in the USSR named after people bear the names of prominent communist figures of the first generations. At the same time, the habit of giving such names existed in Russian society and in old times. Suffice it to recall the same Petrograd or Yekaterinoslav. And even earlier there was Vladimir, founded by Prince Monomakh, who gave him a name. Some cities former USSR are not named statesmen but representatives of culture, which is also quite sound and good for the national memory. For some interesting examples we will take a look at such settlements in the text below.
Cities of the USSR named after people: immortalized statesmen
Joseph Stalin
Perhaps the "leader of the peoples" in this sense was the most popular. List of cities in the USSR that wore different time his name is not something that cannot be counted, but he exceeds a similar tribute to any other politician:
- Stalino: until 1923 Yuzovka, and from 1955 became Donetsk.
- Stalinir, and since 1961 Tskhinval (a city located in Georgia).
- Stalinobad - the modern one bore this name until it turned into Dushanbe.
- Stalingrad - a city that has become an insurmountable obstacle for armies, of course, the most famous of this galaxy.
In addition, not only in the USSR, cities were named after their leader. There were such people in the fraternal So, the large Bulgarian port of Varna at some point was called Stalin. Modern Polish Katowice had the name Stalingrud, and the Hungarian city of Dunaujváros was Stalinváros for ten years.
Makhachkala
Not everyone knows, but this Russian city also named after a communist revolutionary. The modern one bears the name of a local party leader during the revolution, Makhach Dakhadaev.
Tolyatti
But the name of this city is a kind of reciprocal tribute of respect. It is named after the General Secretary of the Italian Communist Party in the year of his death. Until 1964, the city was called Stavropol-on-Volga.
Cities of the USSR named after people: memory to cultural figures
This list in its in full quite impressive too. In Georgia, there are the cities of Mayakovsky, Rustaveli, in Ukraine Ivano-Frankivsk and Khmelnitsky, Chekhov, Chaikovsky and other cities of Russia.
Przhevalsk, Kyrgyzstan
I wonder which list should include a small Kyrgyz town (with a population of just over sixty thousand), bearing from 1889 to 1922 and from 1939 to 1992 the name of a famous Russian traveler and naturalist, whose name, ironically, made the horse more famous, and not a city?
