What else does an ordinary Russian have to do during self-isolation and quarantine, how not to dream about the sun, summer, travel and not to visit tourist sites? And they entertain people sitting at home as they can by arranging polls. So the TurStat portal decided to find out which river names in Russia are the funniest. And we will talk about these rivers - how they came to such a life - in detail.
10. Tukhlyanka, Sakhalin Region
Opens the top 10 rivers of Russia with the funniest names the river Tukhlyanka. During the Japanese rule over southern Sakhalin, it bore a more harmonious name - Masurao. Perhaps Masurao turned into Tukhlyanka when the city-forming enterprise of Uglegorsk, along which the river flows, began to dump technological water into it.
This plant, like many other enterprises in the Far East, was closed at the beginning of perestroika. However, the waters of Tukhlyanka did not become cleaner - as wastewater was poured into it, they continue to be drained. Just a couple of years ago, a local businessman was fined for letting dirty water out of a car wash (he holds the car wash) into the same long-suffering river.
9. Sal, Rostov Region
Although the name of the river is consonant with a very high-calorie and sweet-hearted product of Ukrainians, but in reality everything is not so gastronomic. The river was not called lovers of brisket, but the local Turkic tribes. In their language, “sala” means a tributary of a river. According to another version, the Kalmyks gave the name of the river, because it flows from the ravine - “sala”.
Sal looks quite plainly - this is a small narrow rivulet, which, it seems, the chicken is able to ford. However, it is unique in its way, since a narrow water ribbon stretches as far as 800 km!
8. Sniffing, Tula region
Many scholars believe that names are, in short form, a fixed tradition of people who once lived there. Perhaps the village of Nyuhovka got its name because of the specific nature of the people who inhabited it, who were very curious, loved to scout and, yes, sniff out. So the village and the river Nyukhovki became steel.
However, there is another version - that not the village gave the name to the river, but the river to the village. After all, once in the 16th century in the Tula land there was not only the Nyukhovka River, which was distinguished by a strong stable smell, but also the whole Nyukhovsky camp (in our opinion, the district). True, whether all this land exuded a peculiar aroma, history is silent.
7. Bitch, Tver Oblast
The Suchok River is one of the Volga tributaries. It flows from somewhere in the depths of the Moss swamp and flows into the Volga near the city of Konakovo. Apparently, the Tver people loved the name Suchki very much, calling it not only the river, but also the whole Lake Suchkovskoye, where it carried its waters, as well as the village of Nikolskoye-Suchki located on it.
Only a river has survived to this day. Both the lake and the village were flooded during the creation of the Ivankovo reservoir in 1937. Together with Nikolsky-Suchki, more than a hundred settlements were erased from the face of the earth, including a rather large county town and part of the modern city of Konakovo.
6. Yavon, Novgorod region
Although in our time the name of the river is associated with unpleasant things, it used to be an ancient and honorable name testifying to its high status. In antiquity, it was part of the Seliger trade route, which connected the then center of trade, Mr. Veliky Novgorod, with the “lower” lands - the Vladimir-Suzdal principalities - and the main waterway of medieval Rus, the Volga.
There were few roads in antiquity, so merchants used natural - water routes. From Lake Ilmen they drove ships along the Pole River, then along its tributary Yavoni, and then from Lake Velho, from where Yavon flows, dragged (literally) boats to the Lake Seliger. So the local Finno-Ugric tribes dubbed the Yavonyu River, which means “river of goods receipt”.
5. Urine, Nizhny Novgorod region
But this name is even less pleasant for hearing than the representative of the sixth place in the rating of Russian rivers with the most ridiculous names.
Unlike previous sufferers, whose unappetizing names were only the result of sonic coincidence, Urine is a word akin to the liquid waste of the human body. It comes from the Proto-Slavic root moca, which means something wet, wet. The root word is “urine,” an obsolete name for a swamp.
It seems that the ancient Slavs did not bother much by inventing names for the rivers. Wet and flowing? So it’s the most. And so the rivers with the name Mocha appeared in the Orenburg, Nizhny Novgorod and Moscow regions.
4. Garbage, Samara region
No, this is not a modern name, and it does not say anything about the ecological state of the river. Scientists believe that the name of the river was given by the Finno-Ugric tribes that once lived in the Samara region. Then Garbage sounded more like Muvorka - “mu” meant “land”, and “thief” - a wetland, a lake, an old woman.
3. Malyavka, Ryazan region
In total, there are more than 900 rivers and streams in the Ryazan Region, the names of which are very bizarre. Well, how can you guess what, for example, Oka means? Or Tsna?
With Malyavka, everything is simple - it is really a very tiny river, which, merged with other rivers, brings its waters to the Oka River and through it to the Volga.
2. Herota, Krasnodar Territory
Unfortunately, environmental organizations and residents of the city of Adler, this river now fully corresponds to its inconsistent name. Most of all, it resembles a small dirty stream, the banks of which are tastefully decorated with pieces of fittings and household garbage. True, she does not have to suffer long (the length of the Herota channel is only 14 km).
It is believed that the name of the river originates from two Abkhaz words - “ha” (meaning “village”) and Aryutaa - the name of a large Abkhaz family, whose descendants still live in Turkey.
It once sounded like Kharyuta, then with the light hand of a negligent cartographer who recorded the river on maps at the beginning of the 19th century, it turned into Khorot, and from there it was not far from Kherota.
1. Little Animal, Moscow Region
In first place in the top 10 rivers of Russia with the most fun names was the river, whose name seemed to come from a children's fairy tale. At the word “Little Animal,” the imagination draws the most bizarre animals that once went there to a watering hole ...
But reality, as usual, is rougher and more prosaic. Once the river was called "Nonsense" because it dug up a bed for itself very winding, "nonsense". Or, because it had especially steep banks, and the locals wading through it lifted its legs high.
Agree that the word "Nonsense" in one go and pronounce something difficult. So the name was rolled around for centuries until it came to the present form, easily descending from the language.
