Browse Submitted Place Names

This is a list of submitted place names in which the person who added the name is Tovaryshka_Anya.
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Amur (Region & River) Russian, Mongolian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, English
From Mongolian "амар (amar)" meaning "rest".
Azov (Settlement & Body of Water) Russian, Ukrainian, English
From the Arabic Bahr al-Azuf meaning "dark blue sea" or from Kipchak азакъ (azaq), meaning "river mouth, lowlands". The Sea of Azov is a sea on the borders of Southeast Ukraine and Southwest Russia, connected to the Black Sea... [more]
Belorussia (Country) English
The former name of Belarus and the English spelling of Belorussiya.
Bizantiya (Other) Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian
Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian form of Byzantium, one of the former names of İstanbul.
Chernobyl' (Other) Russian, English
Russian and English form of Chornobyl'.
Chornobyl' (Other) Ukrainian
Chornobyl' is the name of a power plant that had a meltdown in 1986 as well as a Ukrainian village, meaning "black" from Ukrainian чорний (chornyy). The English form is Chernobyl.
Chosŏn (Country) Korean
North Korean transcription of Joseon.
Grektsiya (Country) Yakut
Yakutian form of Greece.
Izmir (Region & Other) English, Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Yakut, Bulgarian, Yiddish, Tatar, Czech, Dutch, German, Romanian, Frisian, Finnish, Georgian, Estonian, Polish, Armenian, Mongolian, Slovak, South Slavic
Form of İzmir used in languages that do not have the 'İ/i' character in the alphabet.... [more]
J̌okuuskay (Other) Yakut
Yakutian form of Yakutsk.
Khreshchatyk (Other) Ukrainian
Derived from хрест (khrest), meaning "cross". Khreshchatyk is a historical street in the Ukrainian capital, and is the most iconic street in Ukraine.
Kiyev (Region, Settlement & Other) Russian, Rusyn
Russian variant transcription and Rusyn form of of Kiev.
Krakiv (Other) Ukrainian
Ukrainian form of Kraków.
Kyjiw (Settlement & Other) German
German form of Kyiv.
Kyyiv (Region, Settlement & Other) Ukrainian
Ukrainian variant transcription of Kyiv.
Malorossiya (Country & Region) Russian
Means "Little Russia" (малый/malyy + россия/rossiya), a historical term denoting to what now is mostly Ukraine.
Mariupol (Other) Ukrainian, Russian
From the given name Maria and with the Greek suffix -πόλη (póli), meaning "city", translating to "City of Maria" or "Maria's City"... [more]
Mar'yinka (Settlement & Other) Ukrainian
Probably derived from the given name Mar'yana. Mar'yinka is the name of multiple villages in Ukraine. Mar'yinka, Donetsk Oblast is the most notable due to the destruction that took place in the city.
Moskoviya (Settlement) Russian, Ukrainian
Russian form of Muscovy, also probably where the city Moskva (see Moscow) got it's name from.
Muscovy (Settlement) English
English name for Moskoviya.
Nimechchyna (Country) Ukrainian
Ukrainian form of Germany. Comes from an old Slavic word that meant "people who don't speak right".
Novorossiya (Region) Russian
Means "New Russia", from Russian новый (novyy), meaning "new" and Россия (Rossiya), meaning "Russia". Historically it was used to describe a region of land around the Ukrainian coastline, but in contemporary usage it refers to the group of 8 regions in Ukraine* (Donyetsk, Lugansk, Zaporozh'ye, Kherson, Khar'kov, Odessa, Dnyepr, Nikolayev) that are predominantly Russian... [more]
Nuuchcha (Settlement) Yakut (?)
Yakut form of Rus'.
Pridnestrovye (Political Subdivision & Region) Russian, English
Another name for Transnistria, using the Russian derivation instead of the Romanian derivation.
Prydnistrov'ya (Political Subdivision & Region) Ukrainian
Ukrainian form of Pridnestrovye.
Qıtay (Country & Settlement) Crimean Tatar
Another name for Crimean Tatar Çin.
Reval (Other) Estonian, Latvian, Polish, English
Former name Tallinn.
Revel (Other) Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian
Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian form of Reval.
Rrusastan (Country) Armenian
From Armenian Կիևյան Ռուսիա (Kiyevyan Rrusia), meaning "Kyivan Rus'", and the Persian suffix ستان (stān), meaning "land of".
Shvetsiya (Country) Russian, Ukrainian
Russian and Ukrainian form of Sweden.
Shveytsariya (Country) Russian, Yakut, Ukrainian, Tatar, Bashkir, Armenian, Georgian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Tajik, Uzbek, Udmurt
Russian, Yakut, Ukrainian, Tatar, Bashkir, Armenian, Georgian, Kazakh, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Tajik, Uzbek, and Udmurt form of Switzerland.
Sibiir (Region) Yakut
Yakutian form of Siberia, a region in Russia.
Tataristan (Political Subdivision & Region) Crimean Tatar
Crimean Tatar form of Tatarstan.
Velikorossiya (Country & Region) Russian
Means "Great Russia" (великий/velikiy + россия/rossiya). It is a historical name of what is now mostly the Russian Federation.
Virmeniya (Country) Ukrainian
Ukrainian form of Armenia, with a different start due to Ukrainian langauge phenomena.
Vorkuta (Other) Russian, Komi, Nenets
Means "the abundance of bears" in Nenets. Vorkuta is a far north city in the Komi Republic in Russia.
Voroshilovgrad (Other) Russian
Means "city of Voroshilov", referring to the military officer Kliment Voroshilov. It is the former name of Lugansk City.
V'yetnam (Country) Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian
Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian form of Vietnam.