Funny village names. Funny city names. One for all

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 there are hundreds in the world settlements 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.

HOW TO SAY

The capital of Brunei is called Bandar Seri Begawan, A main city Madagascar - Antananarivo. But, having remembered these names, it is too early to consider yourself an erudite: believe me, there is room for improvement. For example, on ski resort in the Bavarian Alps Garmisch-Partenkirchen or a village in Wales, for short - Llanwyre Pullgwingill. Full version contains 58 Latin letters, 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 - 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 V Volgograd region or for the entire 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 Irkutsk region they are asking to rename their small homeland Siberian (which is supposedly worse than ex-Ibakov, 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 settlements on the planet with such amazing names that it is difficult to believe in the fact of 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 most strange names from existing ones.

1. Swastika

Swastika town in Ontario, Canada - pretty 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 geographical places, 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 Peniston in Yorkshire, England, probably derives from older forms of Welsh and English languages. 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

Cities with name North Pole available in the states of Alaska and New York. New York's North Pole has theme park with live reindeer and Santa Claus.

6. Nameless

Unnamed - small town in the state of Colorado, which got its name when a highway was planned to be built in this place with a turn to a city that did 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 they call local residents).

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 all over the world, but in Wisconsin there is the whole city, which bears a similar 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.

10 chosen

There are so many amazing cities in the world! Some are famous for their craftsmen, others for their historical sights, others attract guests with fun carnivals or festivals, and others – for their names. When people settle in a new place and establish a settlement, they come up with a name for this place. It can be associated with a legend, with the name of a hero, with the area where it is located or with some event. But sometimes the name causes complete bewilderment - why? Why was this place called that?

Cities of the world

This is exactly what the town in the state of Arizona (USA) is called - Why (why). Either its first settlers themselves were surprised why it occurred to them to stay here, or because of the transcription of the letter Y, as the official version says and the intersection of roads on which it stands looks like from above Why.

In Germany, in the state of Bavaria, a city is thriving Kissing. A city with such a name cannot fail to flourish. I wonder if there is some special tradition associated with kissing here, or if the city has glorified some famous kiss?

If you haven't succeeded in something in life, try going to South Africa. This is where the city is located for the most persistent - Try Again and... try again!

Rafting lovers have their own paradise for their hobby - a city named Slime (Dirt). For romantics in England there is a very nice place - the city Roseberry Topping). But where you wouldn’t want to go is a town in the Cayman Islands called Hell). Yes, the place is gloomy, located among the rocks. Here anyone can exclaim: “I live in Hell!” But tourists really like to send postcards from here to their friends - straight from Hell.

Sometimes a city with the most ordinary name changes it to a more original one. This is what happened to the resort town Hot Springs, whose residents decided to change his name to Truth or Consequences giving in to temptation. The organizers of the game show of the same name promised to move production to a city that would be named after the program.

The city with the most long name also worthy to be mentioned among the unusual - Taumatahuakatangiangakoauauotamateapokanuenuakitanatahu. It is located in New Zealand and means the following - "The summit where Tamatea Pokai Whenua played the flute for his beloved." Beautiful, isn't it? In contrast, there is a city that is just an empty place, which is how the name of the town Noodle sounds in Texas slang. But what about living in cities called Spot, Monkey's Eyebrow, or even worse, Idiotville? I can't even imagine what the residents of these cities and towns answer when asked where they come from?

And we have?

On the sidewalk

Seven men came together:

Seven temporarily obliged,

A tightened province,

Terpigoreva County,

Empty parish,

From adjacent villages:

Zaplatova, Dyryaeva,

Razutova, Znobishina,

Gorelova, Neelova -

Bad harvest too...

There are many cities with strange names all over the world. And our country is no exception! If you have had a chance to travel by car across the expanses of our vast homeland, then you have also come across funny, amusing and even such original names that do not withstand censorship... But what people thought when they called the place they were going to live that way! Although, maybe this is all the tricks of the neighbors?

Judge for yourself: Bolshiye Pupsy (a village in the Tver region), Cheshevki (a village in the Kaluga region), Takoe (a village on Sakhalin), Bolshoye Struikino (a village in the Novgorod region), Ovnishche (a village in the Tver region), Dno ( a town near Pskov), Trusovo (a village in the Komi Republic), Kosyakovka (a village in Bashkiria), Krutiye Khutora (a village in the Lipetsk region), Novopozornovo (a village in the Kemerovo region), Bolotnaya Rogavka (a village in the Novgorod region), Starye Chervi (a village in the Kemerovo region), Verkhnee Zachatiye (a village in the Chekhov region), Durakovo (a village in the Kaluga region), Zayachiy Bubble (a river in the Kemerovo region), Kozyavkino (a village in the Kemerovo region), Tsatsa (Volgograd region) region), Zveronozhka (a river in the Moscow region), Mukhodoevo (a village in the Belgorod region), Da-da (a village in the Khabarovsk region), Bolshoye Bukhalovo (a village in the Vologda region), Zhabino (a village in Mordovia), Chuvaki (a village in the Perm region), Musorka (a village in the Ulyanovsk region), Bezvodovka (a village in the Ulyanovsk region) and even Good Bees (in the Ryazan region)!

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

IN 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, Bannoe, 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! The cities of Dno, Opochka, Pytalovo are lit there... 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 Yaroslavl region- Woe-Gryaz, Pshenichishche, Zhupeevo, Bukhalovo.

IN Voronezh region there is Khrenishche.

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

IN Lipetsk region There is a village called 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 Priargunsky 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 Murmansk region There is a village called Afrikanda. Under the snow, Afrikanda looks especially exotic.

IN Saratov region there is a village called 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 Vladimir region stand out: the village of Krasnaya Gorbatka, the village of Pereb, the village of Likhaya Pozhnya. In Bryansk - Mamai, Bibiki, Zaytsev Dvor, Crimea, Varna, Bald, New Scales, Usherpie, Gobiki, Badgers, Byakovo, Sluchok, New World, Vesyoly, Hooks, Bobrik, Gnilevo, Usokh, Lizogubovka, Lozhki, Ugrevische, Shiryaevka, Shapkino... And in the Khabarovsk Territory there is the village of Condon. IN Smolensk region- Boduny village. In Tambovskaya - Bolshaya 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 Troitsky administrative district There is a village called Babenki in Moscow.

And in Ryazan region There was once a village called 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 having 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.

And what funny names Do you know any settlements in Russia? We are waiting for your comments!