Funny city names. Travel Cool names of Russian villages

There are settlements on the planet with such amazing names that it is difficult to believe in their existence. And to live in the city of Swastika or in the city of the Kingdom of Satan, perhaps, only people with a good sense of humor can live. And it should be noted that these are not the strangest names out there.

1. Swastika

The town of Swastika in Ontario, Canada is a rather strange place. In fact, this is not a Nazi haven 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

What's funny and strange is that there are cities and geographic places 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 name of the town of Penistone in Yorkshire, England, probably derives from older forms of Welsh and English. The name originally meant "Hilltop Village". Today, everyone is giggling at him.

4. Nothing

The previously populated (although very few people lived in it) village of Nothing in Arizona, was completely abandoned in 2005. The sign at the entrance to the city reads: “The dedicated citizens of Nothing are full of hope and faith in the necessity of work. For many years these people believed in Nothing, hoped for Nothing and worked in Nothing."

5. North Pole

There are cities named North Pole in the states of Alaska and New York. New York's 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 to be built in this place with a turn to a city that does not yet exist. During the construction of the road, a temporary sign with the inscription “Unnamed” was installed at the bend. As a result, the name stuck.

7. Moon

Northwest of Pittsburgh there is a town called Luna, which was probably so named because it is located in a crescent-shaped bend of the river.

8. Mars

Tourists have recently often visited the city of Mars in Pennsylvania. Not only is there a non-working former spaceship installed in the city, but you can also say that you visited the Martians (that’s what the locals are called).

9. George Washington

George Washington is the only city in the United States that bears the full name of its founding father.

10. Ganja

The city with the most Rastafarian name can be found in Azerbaijan. Moreover, this is not even a village that was named as a joke, but the second largest city in the country.

11. Chinatown

Chinatowns, or Chinatowns, exist in major cities around the world, but there is an entire city in Wisconsin that bears the same name.

12. Batman

Everyone knows the famous comic book hero, but few people know that in Turkey, in the province of Batman, on the banks of the Batman River (a tributary of the Tigris River) there is a city called 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

The settlement with such a laconic name is a beautiful seaside village in the very north of Norway. Six other Norwegian towns, a Swedish and a Danish town also have a similar name.

15. Accident

Interestingly, the town of Casualty was built in the 1770s in Western Maryland by accident. Two surveyors marked out the ground, randomly choosing the same oak tree as a reference point. It was on that spot that the city was founded.

My childhood was spent in a wonderful military town with what I then thought was an unusual name: Mirny. This language game, peaceful - military, seemed absolutely normal to the locals and very funny to everyone else. Having grown up, I was disappointed to learn that there are more than a dozen civilians (though not military ones) in Russia, and that there are hundreds of settlements in the world with much stranger and funnier names.

THIS SOUNDS OF A CITY

"Sir, I come from Gascony! - what does it sound like, huh? D'Artagnan-Boyarsky twirls his mustache, the audience exhales in delight. Even though it’s a province, not Paris, it’s still beautiful - Gascony. How would he speak if he lived in the village? Goats in the Tver region, in the Ukrainian Bald Balde, Kemerovo Kozyavkino or Old Worms? Residents get upset and ask to rename their Trash y, Mukhoyedovo or Bolshoye Bukhalovo into something euphonious, linguists are perplexed. They say that national color and originality should be rejoiced, and not renamed. Maybe it really is necessary? Otherwise they will rename it like the Saratov village Sodom V Great Sodom, you will complain yourself. Moreover, the funny cities of Russia are not alone. In the States, for example, there is an abandoned, although Idiotville, near which flows Idiot Creek, in Croatia there is a town called Slime, and in the state of Michigan the settlement Hell. Life for its residents is quite heavenly: the skillful use of a gloomy theme - from the welcome sign with scarlet letters "Welcome to Hell" to the signature cocktail "Bloody Devil" - pays good dividends. For some reason, in the village of Adovo, Kirov Region, they didn’t think of this.

And if not for the ridiculous toponymy, who would have known about these settlements? So should you be ashamed of a bright line? Big Pyssa in the "Place of Birth" column? And for that matter, d’Artagnan’s own name was Charles Ogier de Batz de Castelmore. AND Constance, by the way, is actually a village in Ukraine. So let him keep quiet with his Gascony!

NAMED WITH LOVE

Exquisite Paris, romantic Venice, legendary Verona - these are all platitudes, suitable only for advertising travel agencies. Is it the Germans? Kissing And Petting. By the way, a forty-minute drive from the latter is an Austrian village Fucking. If such directness is disgusting, then the city Try again in South Africa will certainly evoke the brightest feelings, and maybe even push them to action. And everything will be complete Happiness, then, more precisely, the same one that is located in the Lugansk region.

However, not only cities, but also streets can be named with love. For example, residents of an English city named several city streets with love... for Robbie Williams.

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The capital of Brunei is called Bandar Seri Begawan, and the main city of Madagascar is Antananarivo. But, having remembered these names, it is too early to consider yourself an erudite: believe me, there is room for improvement. For example, to a ski resort in the Bavarian Alps Garmisch-Partenkirchen or a village in Wales, for short - Llanwyre Pullgwingill. The full version contains 58 Latin letters and looks absolutely wild( Llanwyrepullgwingyllgogerihuirndrobulllantisiliogogoh) and translates as "The Church of St. Mary in the hollow of the white hazel near the stormy whirlpool and the Church of St. Tisilio near the red cave." Not only that, these strange Llanwirepullgwyngillins also created a website with the same domain name consisting of several dozen letters. And, perhaps, they recorded record attendance on it - in the form of two particularly stubborn tourists with a jammed keyboard. Total cackle!

We, of course, with our own Verkhnenovokutlumbetev(Orenburg region) and Starokozmodemyanovsky(Tambovskaya) are hopelessly behind!

But still, the leading position is held by the capital of Thailand, known to us as Bangkok. To the most experienced in geography, history and speech therapy, it appears in full grandeur - Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahintarayutthaya Mahadilok Phop Nopparat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Avatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Vitsanukam Prasit. The official name is taught to little Thais in school, obediently repeating: “The city of angels, the great city, the city is the eternal treasure, the impregnable city of the god Indra, the majestic capital of the world, endowed with nine precious stones, the happy city, full of abundance, the grandiose royal palace, reminiscent of the divine the monastery where the reincarnated god reigns, the city donated by Indra and built by Vishwakarma.” Who here considers the multiplication tables and the Russian anthem difficult?

How gratifying it is to hear about an Australian town after this Wee-Waa, whose name resembles the cry of a baby (surely a future Thai schoolboy), an arrogant village Tsatsa in the Volgograd region or for the entire consenting village Yes Yes Khabarovsk Territory. Dear little town Why Arizona is also quite good. Initially, he was completely Y- this letter resembled two connecting city highways. But since the strict state of Arizona (American laws!) prohibited cities shorter than three letters, the game was given a kind of, one might say, philosophical and interrogative coloring.

As for spelling, a Californian village breaks all records in this category. Zzyzx. Such an original name allows it to be the last word in gazetteers of the States and in the English language in general. And by the way, it is pronounced very humanely - just Zaizix.

ONE FOR ALL

London is the capital of Paris, Paris is the capital of Rome, and Rome... The monologue of Carroll's Alice can easily be continued and made geographically correct by declaring that Athens (and not alone) is in the USA, Brest is in France, Cordoba is in Argentina (and two more in Mexico), Constantinople - in the Donetsk region, and Paris, Leipzig and Berlin - not far from Chelyabinsk. The United States can easily be called the champion in world toponymy: homesick settlers generously endowed tiny dusty settlements with the proud names of cities dear to their hearts.

Everyone’s attitude towards strange names is different: some are ashamed of them, others ridicule them, and still others are proud and would not trade them for anything.

For example, residents of the village of Lokhovo in the Irkutsk region are asking to rename their small homeland Sibirskoe (which is supposedly worse than ex-Ibakova, now Nagornaya, Pozdyutok, called Rainbow, and Kherovka, ennobled into Krasnaya Pristan).

And the villagers from Dun Bleske, County Limerick, defended their Bleske in a difficult bureaucratic struggle. Dun is a fort, shine is, to put it mildly, a woman of free morals, and all together it doesn’t sound very good, something like a whore’s fort. But not for the Irish patriots: they categorically did not agree to “just a fort” (An-Dun). Maybe Bleske was just a feminist? And in general, love for one’s family comes first, and it doesn’t matter at all who that woman was, the representative of the village council proudly declared.

Funny cities were collected by Anna Morgunova

There are seven villages named 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, what we have: approximately 44% of names are repeating. 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...

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 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 Fershanpenoise 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, Bolshoi Khochuzh, Sos, Blagodat, Novy Opel, Lobok...

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 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, Lupus, Zagvazdino, Lezhanka, Prishib. In Samara there is the village of Koshki (it is a twin 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 - BolshayaRzhaksa.

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. Nobody lives there now. 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.

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.

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

And perhaps only people with a good sense of humor can live in the city of Swastika or in the city of the Kingdom of Satan. And it should be noted that these are not the strangest names out there.

1. Swastika

Swastika city in Ontario, Canada.

2. Kingdom of Satan

Two cities in the United States (in the states of Vermont and Massachusetts) are called the Kingdom of Satan.

3. Peniston

Penistone town in Yorkshire, England.

The name of the town of Penistone in Yorkshire, England, probably derives from older forms of Welsh and English. The name originally meant "Hilltop Village". Today, everyone is giggling at him.

4. Nothing

The village of Nothing in Arizona, USA.

5. North Pole

The North Pole city is located in the states of Alaska and New York, USA.

There are cities named North Pole in the states of Alaska and New York. New York's North Pole has a theme park with live reindeer and Santa Claus.

6. Nameless

Town in Colorado, USA.

The town of Luna is located northwest of Pittsburgh.

Northwest of Pittsburgh there is a town called Luna, which was probably so named because it is located in a crescent-shaped bend of the river.

8. Mars

City of Mars in Pennsylvania, USA.

George Washington is the only city named by its full name.

George Washington is the only city in the United States that bears the full name of its founding father.

10. Ganja

City in Azerbaijan.

The city with the most Rastafarian name can be found in Azerbaijan. Moreover, this is not even a village that was named as a joke, but the second largest city in the country.

11. Chinatown

Chinatown is a city in Wisconsin, USA.

Chinatowns, or Chinatowns, exist in major cities around the world, but there is an entire city in Wisconsin that bears the same name.

12. Batman

The city of Batman in the province of Batman on the banks of the Batman River, Türkiye.

13. Bastardtown

Bastardtown in County Wexford, Ireland.

Bastardtown in County Wexford, despite its name, is a picturesque Irish seaside village.

14. Å

Å is a village in the very north of Norway.

The settlement with such a laconic name is a beautiful seaside village in the very north of Norway. Six other Norwegian towns, a Swedish and a Danish town also have a similar name.

15. Accident

The town of Accident in Western Maryland, USA.

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 village called Zada. 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 Chelyabinsk region, like Bashkiria, also has its own Paris. And Fershanpenoise is available. And even the villages of Leipzig and Berlin.

... 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 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, 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, Ushcherpye, 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.

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 Secret? It's a secret…

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).

Funny city names. Travel Cool names of Russian villages

1. Swastika

2. Kingdom of Satan

3. Peniston

4. Nothing

5. North Pole

6. Nameless

7. Moon

8. Mars

9. George Washington

10. Ganja

11. Chinatown

12. Batman

13. Bastardtown

14. Å

15. Accident

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