It cannot be said that in Russia there are very diverse names of settlements. In 45% of the names are repeated. The most common: Mikhailovka, Berezovka, Pokrovka, and settlements with the name Alexandrovsk, there are as many as 166 pieces. But there are such names that glorified the city throughout the country, and without an attractive history, fame came to the village only because of the name.
Moscow region
Moscow region also boasts interesting names of its villages. One of these is Durykino. By the way, the units of residents who still remained here live even take pride in this name, because Peter I himself gave it. During the construction, the king needed a huge number of eggs, a cry was given throughout the country. Residents of modern Durykino overdid it and brought boiled eggs to the place of erection of the walls. Then the king called the villagers fools, and over time the name stuck.
In the list of cities with funny names, you can include a settlement called Radio (Odintsovo district). Although the origin of the name is very trivial. A settlement was formed around the endpoint receiving the antenna, at the site of the test site for testing radio lines.
In the Solnechnogorsk district there is a village called Black Mud. There are two versions of the origin of the name. According to one of them, the name of the settlement is associated with a small river, which flows there and has very muddy waters. According to another legend, allegedly Catherine II, stopping on her way from St. Petersburg to Moscow, got out of the carriage and stained her snow-white shoes. It seemed to the Tsarina that the land here was too black, and the village began to be called - Black Mud.
Mamyri is another unique name for the village in the Moscow region. According to one legend, the name comes from the French expression Ma Marie !, that is, "Mom Marie." Legend has it that in ancient times, a Frenchman for a very long time called one of the inhabitants of the village on dates, constantly repeating "Mama Marie." So the locals nicknamed their settlement.
According to another version, the local landowner married a Frenchman before her death and, having conceived the death, rewrote the village to her husband, indicating in the inheritance document "Transfer the village of Mon Mari to such and such." In the future, they simply adjusted the name to a more consonant with the Russian language.
By the way, in the Novo-Fominsk district there is also a village with the same name.
Sverdlovsk region
There is the city of New Lyalya (Sverdlovsk region) in this district. About 12 thousand people live in it. The official founding date is 1938, but the first mention of the settlement is in the annals of 1723. That year, they began to build a smelter near the village of Karaulskoye. However, historians are very doubtful that the founding date can be considered 1723.
And why the city received the name Novaya Lyalya (Sverdlovsk Region) is not at all clear, no documented data exist. Like most cities in the Urals, this one was founded around an industrial enterprise for the extraction of copper.
Lower Sergi in the Sverdlovsk region also have an interesting name, but the city got its name because of its location - on the Serga River. It was founded on the basis of the railway and the ironworks. At the time of its foundation, about 20 mines were already developed in the okrug.
Another city is Rezh, Sverdlovsk Region, located on the river of the same name. The foundation date is considered to be 1773. The origin of the name is not known for certain. There is a version that translated from Mansi means "rocky coast." Indeed, the city of Rezh of the 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 a more interesting legend of the origin of the name of the river. In the distant days, when the first settlers appeared in the place of the modern city of Rezh, one of them, seeing the steep banks at the confluence of the river into the Neva, exclaimed: "Father, it’s as if he were cutting the Nevyu." So the name "Dir."
Pskov region
There is the city of Opochka in the Pskov region. It is believed that the first fortress in these places appeared 800 years ago. And the settlement was named because of sedimentary rocks, which have a gray-whitish color, called “flasks”, which were used for construction. And the name was preserved - the city of Opochka, which for a long time played a huge defensive role for Russia.
There are interesting names in the Pskov region. For example, the city of Bottom. Small in size and number of inhabitants, a little more than 7 thousand people. This name is associated with the Russian word "bottom", which has several meanings, in particular 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.
On the Morning River there is a small settlement - the city of Pytalovo. According to one version, the town was named after the name of the owner of these lands - Lieutenant Pytalov (1766).
Volgograd region
There is a village in this area with an interesting name - Tsatsa. In fact, the word “swell” from the Kalmyk language means “Buddhist chapel”. And Buddhists in this area are called clay figurines, which they put together with the deceased as a symbol of positive energy.
Irkutsk region
There is a village of Lokhovo in the Irkutsk region, which can be included in the list of cities with funny names. Surely many have heard about this settlement, as there was even a television scandal over the issue of renaming (2005). Then the locals began to defend the name and even gathered a rally against renaming. So, the village of Lokhovo remained on the map, which was named, by the way, in honor of Mikhail Lokhov, a local rich farmer who did a lot for these places.
Kaluga region
There is a city with a funny name in this area - Deshovki. One of the versions of the origin of the name goes back to the time of the Mongol-Tatar yoke. When all cities except Kozelsk were taken in the district, the inhabitants of the modern village of Deshovka asked for the walls of the fortified town. Residents of Kozelsk took pity and let the villagers with whom the Tatars passed. So behind the village the name Deshovka was preserved, that is, people who sold their brothers almost for nothing.
Oryol Region
There is another city with a funny name in this district - Mymrino, by the way, the homeland of G. Zyuganov. The landowner gave this name to the landowner, who, according to legend, had a terrible character and was very cruel.
Buryat Autonomous Okrug
There is a village in this area with the funny name Zady. The name appeared in Soviet times due to the fact that the most profitable business for the local population was the trade in manure. So the village was given the official name. Although there is another that was earlier - Durlai, named after one of the Buryat brothers, the founders of the villages in these places.
Kemerovo region
The official name of the village of Old Worms is Starocervovo. However, the popular name has taken root more and even appears at a stop located on the highway. It is believed that the official name comes from the word "red", that is, red. In the old days, chervontsy was made from an alloy of copper and gold, which was mined here. And it is not clear where the name Old Worms came from, either due to the fact that the gold diggers very much resemble worms during work, or because it is easier to pronounce such a name.
Ryazan Oblast
This area also boasts cities of Russia with unusual names. One of these is the Good Bees. Such a name is associated with flight control. Earlier, when there was a wasteland, the monks of the Theological Monastery collected honey here in a natural apiary. In this context, the word "good" means "benign" or "best."
By the way, there are still interesting villages in the district - Dobry Sot and Paseka.
Voronezh region
There is a village Khrenovoye in this area. It was founded in the XVIII century. In the old days, there was logging on the banks of the Bityug river, where the village stands. Later, Count Orlov founded a stud farm on these lands. By the way, in the village there is still a school of riders.
According to one version, the name was given due to the fact that horseradish is growing very abundantly in these places. According to another version, when Catherine II drove here, she simply said "Horseradish road", and the name was fixed for the settlement - Horseradish.
Tver region
There is a village in these places with an interesting name - Vydropuzhsk. In ancient scriptures from the 16th century, the village is referred to as Vydrobozhsk. According to one version, the name is given because of the large population of otters in these places. But since the village is located along the road where Catherine II often drove through, there was a story about it. They say that once the queen walked in these places and was frightened of the otter. In honor of this "noble" event, the meeting of the otter and the tsarina, they decided to rename the village from Vydrobozhsk to Vydropozhsk. But the most interesting thing is that local residents claim that there have never been otters in these places.
