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Together we compiled a map of the various cities in Russia. The map is interactive: when you click on the city name, connections with namesakes are highlighted in a legend. Names "with a note" such as Alexandrovsk-Sakhlinsky or Zheleznogorsk-Ilimsky were not taken into account.
Fan facts:
19 out of 29 identical names end in sk, 2 - in tsk, 3 - in -y, 1 - in y.
Five names appear three times. These are Artemovsk, Kirovsk, Krasnoarmeysk, Primorsk and Svesk. Three of the five triple names are in new territories. Until 2015, Tsiolkovsky was called Oglegorsk and was thus the name of Sakhalin.
Almost all current names are the result of Soviet toponymic policy. But a similar phenomenon occurred before the revolution: for example, three Spasaks, one of whom until recently bore the name Bednodmyanovsk, the second is now called Spasak-Ryazansky, and the third is a Bulgar. They had names before the revolution and today only two Pavlovsk remain - St. Petersburg and Voronezh.
The vast majority of the names of the Soviet Union became cities (and many of them were founded) during the Soviet period. But in some cases the Soviet city became the name of a city that existed before the revolution. These are Bashkir Blagoveshchensk (founded as Blagoveshchensky plant village, city since 1941), Volgograd Krasnoslovodsk (originally Buktin Farm, renamed Krasnia Slovoda in 1923, city since 1955), Penza Nikolsk (the best village in Nikolo-Provo) in 1919, Penza Nikolsk (the village Nikolo-po) Troitsk (Troitskoye village, city since 1977).
It is clear that all Kirov and Kirovsky are named after the same character. The situation is the same in Artemovsk and Dzerzhinsk, but:
The East Prussian city of Neuhausen was changed to Gurievsk in 1946 in honor of General Stefan Guriev, who died during the assault on Königsberg, and thus became the name of Gurievsk in Kuzbass (a city since 1938), which was founded in the 19th century as the Guriev factory, which was launched on Hori Street.
in 1964.