Rare village names. Funny names of real cities, villages, streets, rivers, etc.

There are many villages, towns and cities in Russia with unusual names. Photos of such names regularly appear on the Internet, where they arouse real interest and curiosity. Some of them sound really strange and funny. However, it is worth noting that most of these names sound funny only now, when some words have a double meaning. The meaning of the words of other names has already been lost, certain words have either received a completely different meaning, or have completely disappeared from the Russian language.

In ancient times, when these settlements were just being built or formed, they were often given names based on several basic principles. Firstly, by first and last name. Settlements such as Ivanovo, Davydovo, and so on, could be called by the first and last names of the families living in the village, by the first and last names of the founders of the settlement, or by the last names of the elders. Secondly, settlements in ancient times were named after the characteristic surrounding nature - Berezovo, Sosnovo, Penkovo and so on. Thirdly, villages could be named after the occupation of their inhabitants - Gorshki, Kovrovo. Fourthly, villages are named by location - Konets, Zady, Drying, Pussy and so on.

One way or another, some names seem completely unthinkable today. Many are perplexed as to who could come up with such strange names that can sometimes even seem offensive. It is worth knowing that if you understand the etymology and history of a particular name, it becomes clear that there was nothing funny or offensive in them initially, and they all appeared for good reasons, have a special meaning and can even tell a fascinating story about the origin of a settlement .

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Strange, unusual and funny names of settlements photos

The Russian people, of course, have no problems with imagination. But apparently they didn’t bother too much with the names of most settlements. As a result, what we have: approximately 44% of names are repeated. A third of them are named by name (Ivanovka, Mikhailovo, Aleksandrovka...), and a quarter by nature (Sosnovka, Berezovka, Kalinovka...). This is understandable: previously we somehow managed without brainstorming sessions and creative agencies. But among the 165 thousand rural settlements, 1300 urban settlements and 1100 cities of Russia there are real “pearls” of extraordinary folk thought! There are about a thousand names that stick in your memory. Together with the regional editors of KP, we selected from them two hundred of the most, in our opinion, strange and funny.

Let's start with the Perm region. There is a village called Tupitsa. We don’t know why she’s like this...

Or the village of Suchkino. I wonder how the locals feel about this name.

No less interesting is how the residents of the Dude village 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, has become worn out... But the Dudes don’t worry about it.

And there is also the village of Gorshki in the Perm region.

And the village of Rozhki, consonant with them.

There are Sparrows.

And there are Mosquitoes. Hmm, who would risk going there in the summer?

Photo: ALEXEY ZHURAVLEV true_kpru

And the village of Putino. Also available.

And here is the village of Khomyaki. “Looks like someone is 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, Zaitsy and... Freedom!

Let's move to the Krasnodar region. Here, not only the settlements are pleasing, but also the rivers. There are, for example, the rivers Kherota, Ovechka, Kura-Tsetse...

And from the villages that stood out were Batteryka, Za Rodinu, Indyuk, Chushka, and Pyatikhatki. Among the farms are Oasis, Pervaya Sinyukha, Srednie Chuburki, Watchmen First, Labor Armenia, Wide Gap.

But perhaps the coolest name of the village in this region is Vesyolaya Zhizn. You drive past and that’s it, your fun life is over...

Bashkiria also has settlements with life-affirming names. For example, the village of Forward. Why not daily motivation?

- Where are you going ?

- I'm going forward!

By the way, local residents are called either “Vperdintsy” or “Vperdyuki”... Whichever you like. But we haven’t figured out how to do it right yet.

Also known in Bashkiria is the village of Druzhba (the locals are called Druzhbane). And then there are Mars, Paris and Venice. In general, it’s like the Universe in miniature.

Let's move on to the Irkutsk region. There is a Zady village here. People love to take pictures from behind in front of the sign... But the village with the sonorous name Lokhovo has surpassed Zada in popularity among selfie lovers.

In the Kemerovo region there is the village of Antibes. And with it Drachenino and Uporovka.

The Tyumen region is also famous for its considerable list of funny names. There is Kokuy, Partizan, Razdolye, Vagina, Half, Chubby, Shortness of breath, Goldobino, Sour, Beautiful, Nevolino, Elbows, Bad, Kinder, Cotton wool, Political Department, Shot.

The Chelyabinsk region, like Bashkiria, also has its own Paris. And Ferchanpenoise is available. And even the villages of Leipzig and Berlin.

In Udmurtia there are such unusual villages: Muki-Kaksi, Baldeika, Podmoy, Kosolapovo, Karavay, Zherebenki, Babino, Lyuk, Chur, Uzi. And the villages: Skates, Zabegalovo, Berezka, Krasny Kustar, Bannoye, Roosters, Kabanikha, Kozlovo, Barany, Malaya Igra and Bolshaya Igra, Ubytdur, Capture, Vanya-Chumo, Adam.

But the most creative people, apparently, live in the Pskov region! There the cities of Dno, Opochka, Pytalovo are lit... And the villages: Ulcers, Torchilovo, Babki, Badgers, Bolshoy Khochuzh, Sos, Blagodat, Novy Opel, Lobok...

... Kozyulki, Mochilki, Potseluevo, Teeth, Crooked Hats, Lamons, Runts...

... as well as Zhizhitsa, Mokriki, Puffy, Butts, Red Seat, Alyo, Grandfather-Kabak, Bald-Flies, Legs, Fast, Big Rods, New Life.

In the Sverdlovsk region there are the following 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, Krasny Adui.

In the Yaroslavl region - Gore-Gryaz, Pshenichishche, Zhupeevo, Bukhalovo.

In the Voronezh region there is Khrenishche.

In Kaluga there is the village of Zhivotinki. The name is quite harmless and to the point: after all, a livestock farm is located here.

In the Lipetsk region there is the village of Zasosnaya. In Vologda there are two villages with the name Konets (and there are eight of them in Russia).

In Crimea there is a city called Saki, from which the locals made the city of Psaki. Thus, they allegedly denied entry to the famous American.

There are also a lot of unusual and funny names in the Trans-Baikal Territory. For example, in the Argunsky region there is the village of Duroy. There is also the village of Klichka, which is named after a mining engineer. In the Sretensky district there is the village of Bolshie Boty. Not far from the regional capital there is the village of Ulety. And in the Chernyshevsky district there is the village of Ukurey. In the Khiloksky district - Khokhotuy.

And in the Murmansk region there is the village of Afrikanda. Under the snow, Afrikanda looks especially exotic.

In the Saratov region there is the village of Lokh.

And in Omsk - Babezh, Big Scourges, Big Murly, Volchanka, Zagvazdino, Lezhanka, Prishib. In Samara there is the village of Koshki (it is a sister city of Myshkin, Yaroslavl region). In Penza - Tatarskaya Pendelka, Chulpan, Bogdanikha, Bright Path, Rubezh, Traffic Police. In the Vladimir region, the following stand out: the village of Krasnaya Gorbatka, the village of Perebor, the village of Likhaya Pozhnya. In Bryansk - Mamai, Bibiki, Zaytsev Dvor, Crimea, Varna, Bald, New Scales, Usherpie, Gobiki, Badgers, Byakovo, Sluchok, Novy Svet, Vesyly, Hooks, Bobrik, Gnilevo, Usokh, Lizogubovka, Spoons, Ugrevishche, Shiryaevka, Shapkino... And in the Khabarovsk Territory there is the village of Condon. 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 there is the village of Surok.

In the Troitsky administrative district of Moscow there is the village of Babenki.

And in the Ryazan region there was once the village of Lost Paradise. Now no one lives there. This is a tract. It seems that there is a much more friendly atmosphere in the local village of Good Bees.

In the Kostroma region there is the village of Pyankovo.

The Altai Territory is distinguished by the settlements of Chistaya Griva, Komar, Zyatkovo, Vysokaya Griva, Dobraya Volya, Beshentsevo, Raigorod, Valley of Freedom, Lokotok, and Pravda.

In the Krasnoyarsk Territory you can find Minderla, Oblique Spoons, Shalobolino and Cucumbers.

There you will also be intrigued by a village with the mysterious name Secret. Why The Secret? It's a secret…

BY THE WAY

5 interesting facts about Russian settlements

1) The village “Central estate of the state farm named after the 40th anniversary of the Great October Revolution” is the longest name of a settlement in the country. I wonder if local residents are annoyed by the need to pronounce or write this oh-so-long name somewhere in documents?

2) Verkhnenovokutlumbetyevo and Starokozmodemyanovskoe are the longest combined names of settlements. It seems that from childhood everyone is ready to work as a TV announcer. After all, by the time you tell me where you’re from...

3) 46 settlements in Russia have two-letter names. Of these, 11 are Yar. And there is also, for example, Yb - in Komi there are three villages with that name. Remember this to stun your opponents when playing town-village games.

4) There are only two settlements in the country with names starting from Y. These are Yoshkar-Ola and Yozefovka (a village in the Smolensk region).

5) And 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 with absolutely all letters, excluding soft and hard signs, of course.

Bolshaya Pyssa (settlement in the Komi-Udora region)
Big Pupsy (village in Tver region)
st. Ministry of Construction (Smolensk region)
Mandy city (Mongolia)
Cheap (village in Kaluga region)
st. New Russian descent (Ubory village)
Such (village on Sakhalin)
Tukhlyanka (river on Sakhalin)
Baklan (village in Bryansk region)
Lokhovo (village on Mozhaisk highway)
Fakfak(New Guinea)
Bolshoye Struikino (village in Novogorod region)
Ovnishche (village in Tver region)
Dno (city near Pskov)
Trusovo (village in the Komi Republic)
st. Zaboina (Kaluga)
Cocaine Mountains (river in the Perm region)
Kosyakovka (village in Bashkiria)
Kurilovka (village in Saratov region)
Shiryaevo (village in Samara region)
Lomki (village in Nizhny Novgorod region)
Yokosuka (city in Japan)
Bolshoi Kuyash (village in Chelyabinsk region)
Innakh (village in Chukotka)
Krutiye Khutora (village in Lipetsk region)
Krutaya (village in Komi)
Byki, Bychikha (villages in Belarus)
New Algashi (collective farm in the Ulyanovsk region)
Novopozornovo (village in Kemerovo region)
Lysaya Balda (river in the village of Zaryanoye, Ukraine)
Bolotnaya Rogavka (a village in the Novgorod region)
Starye Chervi (village in Kemerovo region)
Verkhneye Zachatiye (village in Chekhovsky district)
Durakovo (village in Kaluga region)
Hare Bubble (river in Kemerovo region)
Kozyavkino (village in Kemerovo region)
Tsatsa (Volgograd region)
Zasosnaya (village in Lipetsk region)
Zveronozhka (river in the Moscow region)
Mukhodoevo (a village in the Belgorod region)
Yes, yes (village in the Khabarovsk Territory)
Voblya (river in the Ryazan region)
Khrenovoe (a village in the Voronezh region)
Bluvinichi (a village in the Brest region)
Bolshoye Bukhalovo (a village in the Vologda region)
Svinovye (a village in the Odintsovo district)
Blue Lepyagy (village in the Voronezh region)
Zhabino (village in Mordovia)
Conchinino (village near Dmitrov)
Razderikha (river in Dmitrovsky district)
Dudes (village in Perm region)
Garbage (village in Ulyanovsk region)
Golodrankino (village near Magnitogorsk)
Bezvodovka (village in Ulyanovsk region)
Red Mogila (Donetsk region)
Kundryuchya (river near Volgograd)
Khotelovo (village near Tver)
Good Bees (in the Ryazan region)
Sooda Uyu (name of the store in Bishkek)

In winter I traveled from Novosibirsk to Sheregesh (ski resort in Gornaya Shoria) by car. So, on this route there is the village of Musohranovo :-) Many (in winter!) stop to take pictures under the sign, and the especially angry ones then swap the positions of the “x” and “c” in Photoshop.
Fleas (Pskov region, Bezhanitsky district)
Blyava (Orenburg region)
Bukhalovo (Tver region, Bologovsky district)
Bukhlovka (Moscow region)
Black Mud (Moscow region,
Solnechnogorsk district)
Kozly (Tver region)
Vagina (Tyumen region)
Lobkovo (Tver region, Kashinsky district)
Popki (Volgograd region, Kotovsky district)
Scrotums (Kaluga region, Meshchovsky district)
Siskovsky (village in Volgograd region)
Tselkovoskaya (village? Volgograd region)
Tumors (Pskov region, Novelsky district)
Drochevo (Moscow region, Dmitrovsky district)
Kalino (Arkhangelsk region, Mezen district)
Kaka (Republic of Dagestan, Akhtynsky district)
Kakino (Nizhny Novgorod region, Gaginsky district)
Mocha (river in the Moscow region, Podolsk district)
Sika (Republic of Dagestan, Tabasarsky district)
Otkhozhee (Tambov region)
Nizhnee Blevkovo (Kaluga region, Spaso-Demensky district)
Machekhin Konets (Tver region)
Khrenishche (Voronezh region, Bobrovsky district)
Big and Small Lokhovo (Tver region, Ostashkovsky district)
1st and 2nd Matyukovo (Tula region, Suvorovsky district)
Pyankino (Moscow region, Shatura district)
MYMRINO (Oryol region)
villages of Takhtymukai and Ponemukai (Krasnodar region)
Kalishchevo (suburb of St. Petersburg)
village SMOSHONKA (Tver region, Lake Seliger)
KUKNULO village (Tver region)
Smyshlyaevka (village, Samara region)
Fools (village, Krasnoyarsk region)
KILYAKOVKA (village, Volgograd region)
Never stop (Lithuania)
Suwalki (Poland)
Maza (river, Smara region)
Radio (village, Moscow region)
In Sochi there is “Katkova Shchel”
Kishki (village, Poltava region, Ukraine)
Konoplyanka (village, Ukraine)
Blyadishchevo (village, Moscow region)
Coffins (village, Ukraine)
B.LYADI (on the Kyiv-Kharkov highway there is the village of Bolshiye Lyadi... near the highway there is a huge stop on which it is written in large letters: B. LYADI :-)))
Gadyushnik (village, Ukraine)
Otsosinovka (village, Kiev region, Ukraine)
Malye Bychki (village, western Ukraine Iv-Fr. region)
Vysun (river, Ukraine)
Polovinka (village, Ukraine)
Bolshoye Svinorye (If you drive along Borovskoye Highway towards the region, there will be a populated area)
On the road from Tara to Omsk there are:
R. Bernyazhka;
With. Pochekuevo;
With. Shchuevoz;
R. Sniffer;
With. Takmyk;
R. Byzovka;
With. Kurnosovo;
With. Big Purrs;
R. Ingaly;
With. Starokarasuk;
With. Chebakly;
With. Uvalnaya Bitiya;
R. Avlukha...
Dyrochnaya River (Belousovo village, Kaluga region)
Lomy town (Ivanovo region)
Bukharovo town (Ivanovo region)
Village of Paris (Chelyabinsk region)
Upper Mamon and Lower Mamon villages (Voronezh region)
In the Omsk region there is a place where people with a special imagination clearly lived... There are the rivers Uy, Tuy, Sik, Ayu, Urna, Miss, Ukratus, Kuyary. In general, you can not list ...
Mukhouderovka village! (Voronezh region)"
In the Sverdlovsk region there are settlements Bolshaya and Malaya Sinyachikha.
Pindushi village (Medvezhyegorsk district, Karelia)
village Shamordino (Kaluga region)
Vyssa River (Kaluga region)
village Matyukovo (Kaluga region)
In the Ryazan region there are the villages of Tyukovo and Pilevo, Dobry Sot, Konobeevo and many others.
village Golubinka and Kunashak (Chelyabinsk region)
In Ukraine, in the Vinnitsa region there is a city Kryzhopol,
Konchinka village (Tula region)
Prohodnoy street deadlock (Dneprodzerzhinsk, Ukraine)
And in the Ulyanovsk region, not far from the village of Bezvodovka, there is a village called Naleyka, but in Karelia there is the village of Sikapokhya.
With. Maly Khomutets (Voronezh region)
Not far from Nizhny Novgorod there is a village “Gnilitsky Dvoriki”
On the road from Rostov-on-Don to the city of Armavir (in my opinion, already in the Krasnodar Territory) I saw the village of Yugo-Northern!!! The story is this: there were two villages separated by a river - North and South. And then they were united)))))
I would like to invite you to add to the general collection the village of Bolshie Kozly, which is in the Peremyshl district of the Kaluga region
Additions at the urgent request of Shurik:
Alupka (Ukrainian Alupka, Crimean Catholicate. Alupka) is a city on the Southern Coast of Crimea, part of the Yalta region of the republic.
15 kilometers from the city of Kursk on the Moscow-Belgorod highway there is the village of Kuritsa, and in the Stary Oskolsky district of the Belgorod region there is a river called Ublya.
In the Zaraisky district of the Moscow region there are such villages as:
Mendyukino
Pronyukhlovo
Potlovo
Gololobovo
Bespyatovo
And a little further towards Ryazan there is a village called KlinBeldin...
villages of Khachiki and Ishaki.
In the Samara region there is a settlement called Zharenny Bugor.
the village of Sukaevka, and five kilometers from it there is the village of Mochaleevka.
the village of Trakhaniotovo in the Kuznetsk region.
In the Voronezh region there are settlements: Khrenovoe, Sinye Lipyagi, Komyaga
in Bryansk region:
R. Rotten,
village of Luzhi,
village Pyanovo,
Borodenka village,
village Mamai,
village Funny,
Chapai village,
R. Duckling,
river Snov,
village Bobrik,
village Calf,
village Shrunken.
In the Ryazan region, near Ukhlovo, there is Kh. Verevkin(?)
In the Pskov region, on the border with the Republic of Belarus, there is a settlement called LOBOK...
We have the village of Polevodka in the Altai Territory. In winter, the Field is often covered with snow and vodka remains))
We also have the village of Ebunovo)))
In the Oryol region, not far from the city of Livny, there is a settlement called Mochilki.
Balakovo (Saratov region), Tupilkino village.
Zalupya village (Kotlas district, Arkhangelsk region)
Near the city of Sochi there is the village of Verkhnee Buu.
Village of Ogurtsy (Krasnoyarsk Territory, Abansky District)
rural settlement Chuvashskoye Eshtebenkino (Samara region)
village Lyubov Truda (Samara region)
In the Tyumen region there is also the village of Veselaya Griva.
Wolf cubs, Konyusata, Antonyata (Perm region)
Ponosovo (Udmurtia)
Shnyaevo (Saratov region)
in the Udmurt Republic there is a village of Pedonovo.
1. village Motnya (Republic of Buryatia, Bichursky district)
2.Sakharnaya Lolovka (Magadan region, Olsky district)
3. Lobki village (Bryansk region)
4. the village of Starushki (Republic of Belarus)
The village of Oblyanishchevo (Mozhaisk district)
Borduki village (Shatursky district)
Village Kerva (Shatura district)
Village Skupaya Potudan (Voronezh region)
Village Rogovatoe (Belgorod region)
Village Kudrevatik (Ivanovo region)
Orevo village (Dmitrovsky district)
Slovakia also has a lot of interesting things: the villages of FIGA, MOCA, CROATIAN GROB, POLISH RABBIT, KVAKOVCE, ŽABOKREKI, MARES
Until recently, there was the village of Malye Pupki in the Sosnovsky district of the Tambov region.
When you travel from the Perm region to Udmurtia, along the way there are several points with funny names: Engine, Horse, Airplane, Tractor. Funny. Where do you live? In the tractor!
Piskino village (Ivanovo region)
In the Oryol region there is the village of Beldyazhki.
In the Altai Territory there is a settlement called Orleans, it’s a pity that it’s not New.
village Ushmary (Domodedovo district)
a) Not far from Gatchina there is the village “Lyadino”
b) On the St. Petersburg-Narva highway there is the village “Gomantovo”
c) In the Pskov region, Krasnogorodsky district, the villages “Suchnaya” and “Slezy”
village of Paris (Ural)
Glukhov (Ukraine, Sumy region)
Linden Valley (Ukraine, Sumy region)
Kobelyaki (Ukraine, Poltava region)
Lokhvitsa (Ukraine, Poltava region)
Red Baran (Tatarstan)
Goat's forehead (Saratov region)
Butyrki (Saratov region)
Brigade (Saratov region)
Russian Pendelka (Penza region)
Muscle (Ryazan region)
Shushpan-Olshanka (Tambov region)
Papuz-Gora (Mordovia)
Noodles (Nizhny Novgorod region)
Macha-Rodniki (Penza region)
Rybushka (Saratov region)
When I was driving from Gelendzhik to Arkhipo-Osipovka (Krasnodar Territory), on the road I came across the village “Wide Gap”.
In the Komi Republic there is a village MANDACH.
Along the Simferopol highway, first you pass the Rakovka River, then a little further the Rozhaika River, everything, as they say, is correct :)
In the Chelyabinsk region there is a river Uy, and there is also Ai, Ai right here in the city of Zlatoust. Ai means “moon” in Tatar :))
On Vyatka (Kirov region) there is the village of Bzdyuli. Normal name, because in the local dialect: Bzdnut - splash water on the heater in the bathhouse.
Here are funny names in Kuban:
-Village Broken Cauldron (Big Sochi)
-Nadzorka river (Mostovskoy district)
-Ekonomicheskoe village (Crimean region)
-the village of Kura-Tsetse (Goryacheklyuchevsky district)
-batteryka village (Temryuk district)
-Veselaya Zhizn farm (on the border of the Krylovsky and Pavlovsky districts). It is located on the federal highway and right behind the “Happy Life” sign there is a cemetery)
-stanitsa Staromyshastovskaya and Novomyshastovskaya
Krasnoshchelye is a village on the left bank of the Ponoy River in the Lovozero district of the Murmansk region.
In the Chita region there is the village of Gazimurskie Kavykuchi. Charm. Not far away are Khokhotuy and Duldurga.
There is a village called Lokh in the Saratov region
In the Khabarovsk region there are two rivers with the name: Small Kuchi and Big Kuchi
In the Udmurt Republic there are the villages of Nyrgynda and Byrgynda.
Bolshie Memi village (Verkhneuslonsky district)
Koshki village (Alkeevsky district)
village Novye Usy (Muslyumovsky district)
Pismyanka village (Bugulminsky district)
Proley-Kasha village (Tetyushsky district)
village of Prosti (Nizhnekamsk district)
And in the Ruza district of the Moscow Region, there is the village of MARS))).
The most beautiful place is Opukhliki (Nevelsky district, Pskov region).
Loukhi (Karelia)
Huhamäha (Finland)
Shchedrishchevo (Donetsk region)
"Hukhamyaha" (Finland)
the railway station is Huuhkanmäki (a former military town) in the Lahdenpoh region of the Republic of Karelia, and the post office is called Huhoyamäki. Translated from Finnish, Huuhkanmäki (Huhoyamäki) means “Owl Mountain.” The village is located on the shores of the wonderful Lake Paikjärvi (Hare Lake), and the school where I studied there was called Lanjärviküllskaya. Such unusual names!
There are three interesting villages in the Ryazan region, Shatsky district: Nasha, Vasha and Snovo-Zdorovo.
Near Kislovodsk (Stavropol Territory) there is the village of Jaga-Jaga.
Bichevaya village (Khabarovsk Territory)
village of Bolshoi Sodom (Saratov region) non-residential village. Estonians (Saratov region) village of Starye Kabany (Republic of Bashkortostan, Krasnokamsk region) And a couple of years ago, somewhere in Russia, the settlement of Economic Polyanka disappeared from the map.
in the Chuvash Republic we passed through the following settlements (though I don’t know what they mean in the local language, but it’s funny to the Russian ear and eye, sorry!): Moskakasy, Yaushi, Oppukassi. And in the Vladimir region we passed the turn to Puzhalova Gora and the village (or village) of Likhaya Pozhnya. And in the Nizhny Novgorod region there is the village of Turtapka, the village of Solntse.
In the Kirov region, the saying has long been known: “For Suna, for Tuzha, for Perzha and for Voya.” Suna, Tuzha, Perzha, Voyamalye rivers of the Kirov region.
Soskovo village (Taldomsky district, Moscow region),
Chemodurovo village (Moscow region, Voskresensky district)
Kalishche is a village on the western bank of the Selizharovsky Reach. Currently, it is administratively part of the village of Sigovka, Ostashkovsky district. Kalishchenskoye Lake is 80 kilometers from St. Petersburg, in the vicinity of the city of Sosnovy Bor.
But in Slovenia there is radio “Sraka” in the city of Novo Mesto, the village of Govnjac, Mount Govnjac in the national. Triglav park and the Black Kal viaduct on one of the highways (bypassing the village of the same name). And many other names are quite funny: Mrzli-Studenets, Podmelets, Beyond the Edge, Pokojische, Shmarje, Shmarieta, Zakl, Krali, Srachinets...

It cannot be said that there are very diverse names of settlements on the territory of Russia. In 45% 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 have 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, the few residents who still live here are even proud of this name, because it was given by Peter I himself. During construction, the king needed a huge number of eggs, a cry was given throughout the country. Residents of modern Durykino overdid it and brought not fresh, but boiled eggs to the construction site. It was then that the king called the village residents 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 antenna receiving end point, on the site of a testing ground for radio link lines.

In the Solnechnogorsk region there is a village called Chernaya Gryaz. 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, stopping on the way from St. Petersburg to Moscow, got out of the carriage and got her snow-white shoes dirty. It seemed to the queen that the land here was too black, 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, “Mama Marie”. Legend has it that in ancient times, a Frenchman asked one of the village residents on dates for a very long time, constantly repeating “Mama Marie.” That's what the locals called their settlement.

According to another version, before her death, a local landowner married a Frenchman and, sensing his death, transferred the village to her husband, indicating in the inheritance document “The village of Mon Mari should be transferred to such and such.” Later, the name was simply adjusted 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 a city in this district called Novaya Lyalya (Sverdlovsk region). It is home to about 12 thousand people. However, the official date of foundation is considered to be the first mention of the settlement in the chronicles of 1723. That year they began to build a copper smelter near the village of Karaulskoye. However, historians very much doubt that 1723 can be considered the founding date.

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

Nizhnie 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 a railway and an iron smelter. At the time of its founding, about 20 mines had already been developed in the district.

Another city is Rezh, Sverdlovsk region, located on the river of the same name. The founding date 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, 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 more to the origin of the name of the river. In ancient times, when the first settlers appeared in the area 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 Nevue.” 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 settlement received its name because of the gray-whitish sedimentary rocks called “opoka”, which were used for construction. This is how 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 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 here at the railway station Nicholas II signed his abdication of the throne.

There is a small settlement on the Utro River - 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 clay figurines that are placed with the deceased as a symbol of positive energy.

Irkutsk region

There is a village in the Irkutsk region called 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 issue of renaming (2005). Then local residents defended the name and even organized 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 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 Kozelsk, the inhabitants of the modern village of Deshovki asked to leave the walls of the fortified town. The residents of Kozelsk took pity and let in the villagers with whom the Tatars passed. This is how the village retained the name Deshovki, that is, people who sold their brothers for practically 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 the funny name Zady. The name appeared in Soviet times due to the fact that the most profitable business for the local population was trading in manure. So the village was given its official name. Although there is another one that existed 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 Chervi is Starochervovo. However, the popular name has taken root more and is even listed at a stop located on the highway. It is believed that the official name comes from the word “chervovo”, that is, red. In the old days, chervonets were made from an alloy of copper and gold that was mined here. It is not clear where the name Old Worms came from, either because gold miners in the process of working are very reminiscent of 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 Good Bees. This name is associated with beekeeping. Previously, when there was a wasteland here, the monks of the Theological Monastery collected honey here in a natural apiary. In this context, the word “good” means “benign” or “best.”

By the way, there are also interesting villages in the area - Dobry Sot and Paseka.

Voronezh region

There is a village in this area called Khrenovoe. It was founded back in the 18th century. In the old days, logging took place on the banks of the Bityug River, where the village is located. Later, Count Orlov founded a stud farm on these lands. By the way, a riding school still operates in the village today.

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 “Khrenovaya road,” and so the name of the settlement was assigned - Khrenovoe.

There is a village in these places with an 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 was walking in these places and was afraid of an 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 local residents claim that there have never been otters in these places.

Transbaikal region

The Petrovsk-Zabaikalsky district was probably once inhabited by very cheerful people. Here 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 village appeared during the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway (1899).

Although there are versions 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 lies."

There are seven villages with the name Khrenovo in Russia! This one is in the Ivanovo region. Photo: Andrey KARA

Tupitsa, Suchkino, Bukhalovo, Lokhovo, Khrenovo... Among the 170 thousand settlements of the country, we have chosen those that you cannot drive past without emotions

The Russian people, of course, have no problems with imagination. But apparently they didn’t bother too much with the names of most settlements. As a result, we have: approximately 44% of the names are repetitive. A third of them are named by name (Ivanovka, Mikhailovo, Aleksandrovka...), and a quarter by nature (Sosnovka, Berezovka, Kalinovka...). This is understandable: previously we somehow managed without brainstorming sessions and creative agencies. But among the 165 thousand rural settlements, 1300 urban settlements and 1100 cities of Russia there are real “pearls” of extraordinary folk thought! Crashing into the memory of names - about a thousand. Together with the regional editors of KP, we selected from them two hundred of the most, in our opinion, strange and funny.

Let's start with the Perm region. There is a village called Tupitsa. We don’t know why she’s like this...

Photo: Alexey ZHURAVLEV

Or the village of Suchkino. I wonder how the locals feel about this name.

Photo: Alexey ZHURAVLEV

And the village of Putino. Also available.

And here is the village of Khomyaki. “Looks like someone is eating too much!?” - I remembered from the fairy tale about Winnie the Pooh.

In the Kemerovo region there is the village of Antibes. And with it Drachenino and Uporovka.

The Chelyabinsk region, like Bashkiria, also has its own Paris. And Ferchanpenoise is available. And even the villages of Leipzig and Berlin.

Kozyulki, Mochilki, Kissuevo, Teeth, Crooked Hats, Lamons, Runts...

And also Zhizhitsa, Mokriki, Puffy, Butts, Red Seat, Alyo, Grandfather-Kabak, Bald-Flies, Legs, Fast, Big Rods, New Life.

In the Yaroslavl region - Gore-Gryaz, Pshenichishche, Zhupeevo, Bukhalovo.

In the Voronezh region there is Khrenishche.

In Kaluga there is the village of Zhivotinki. The name is quite harmless and to the point: after all, a livestock farm is located here.

In the Lipetsk region there is the village of Zasosnaya. In Vologda there are two villages with the name Konets (and there are eight of them in Russia).

In Crimea there is a city called Saki, from which the locals made the city of Psaki. Thus, they allegedly denied entry to the famous American.

And in the Murmansk region there is the village of Afrikanda. Under the snow, Afrikanda looks especially exotic.

In the Saratov region there is the village of Lokh.

And in Omsk - Babezh, Big Scourges, Big Murly, Lupus, Zagvazdino, Lezhanka, Prishib. In Samara - the village of Koshki (this is the sister city of Myshkin, Yaroslavl Region). In Penza - Tatarskaya Pendelka, Chulpan, Bogdanikha, Bright Way, Frontier, GAI. In the Vladimir region, the following stand out: the village of Krasnaya Gorbatka, the village of Perebor, the village of Likhaya Pozhnya. In Bryansk - Mamai, Bibiki, Zaytsev Dvor, Crimea, Varna, Bald, New Scales, Usherpie, Gobiki, Badgers, Byakovo, Sluchok, Novy Svet, Vesyly, Hooks, Bobrik, Gnilevo, Usokh, 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 Tambov - Bolshaya Rzhaksa.

In Mordovia you can find settlements with the following names: Piksyasi, Chudinka, Red Warrior, Syryatino, Sialeevsky Maidan. In Chuvashia - the village of Bolshoe Murashkino, the village of Experienced, the village of Khachiki. In Mari El there is the village of Surok.

In the Troitsky administrative district of Moscow there is the village of Babenki.

In the Kostroma region there is the village of Pyankovo.

BY THE WAY

5 interesting facts about Russian settlements

4) There are only two settlements in the country with names starting from Y. These are Yoshkar-Ola and Yozefovka (a village in the Smolensk region).

What funny names of Russian settlements do you know? We are waiting for your comments!