12 Russian street names that will tie your tongue into a knot

1. Kardzhaliyskaya street

This street is located in the south-west of Vladikavkaz. It appeared in the 80s of the XX century and was named after the Bulgarian city of Kardzhali. Before the collapse of the USSR, they were twin cities with Vladikavkaz. Bulgarian poets came to the Caucasus with performances, and Ossetian poets came to Bulgaria. A monument to one of them, Kosta Khetagurov, still stands in Kardzhali.

2. Osoaviakhim street

Osoaviakhim is an abbreviation that stands for the Society for the Promotion of Defense, Aviation and Chemical Construction. This organization appeared in the Soviet Union in the 1920s. We entered it voluntarily. The main tasks of the society were the solution of military-scientific problems and the dissemination of military knowledge among the population.

In memory of the existence of the organization, Osoaviakhim street appeared. This is in Chelyabinsk, Yekaterinburg, Novorossiysk, Novosibirsk, Komsomolsk-on-Amur, and in several other cities of Ukraine and in Alma-Ata.

3. Sharikopodshipnikovskaya street

GPZ-1, the First State Bearing Plant, was opened in Moscow in 1932. To get to it easier, a street was built, which was named Sharikopodshipnikovskaya. It is located in the South-Eastern Administrative District of the capital. You can get to Sharikopodshipnikovskaya along the Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya metro line, you need to get off at the Dubrovka station.

Muscovites, speaking about the street, often shorten its name to the short "Sharik". Because in its full version, Sharikopodshipnikovskaya can easily replace the tongue twister about Sasha, who was walking along the highway.

4. Halimbekaulskaya street

Halimbekaul is a village in Dagestan, near the city of Buinaksk. In the 19th century, one of the battles of the Caucasian War took place there - a series of military actions of the Russian Empire related to the annexation of the regions of the North Caucasus to its territory.

Halimbekaulskaya street is located in Makhachkala near the Ak-Gol lake.

5. Vyl-voy-Vyv street

There is a street with this difficult name in the capital of Komi Syktyvkar. "Howl howling vyv" from the Komi language into Russian is translated a little strange - "new surface of the night." A more logical translation is obtained if you combine the last two words: "howling voyvyv" - "new north". In the twentieth century, newspapers and literary almanacs with this name were published in the republic.

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6. Yivan Kyrli street

This street appeared in Yoshkar-Ola in 1969. It was named after the Mari film actor and poet Yyvan Kyrli. He starred in the films "A Way to Life" and "Buddha's Vicar", played in the Mari State Drama Theater, was a member of the USSR Writers' Union.

The difficult-to-pronounce name Yyvan Kyrla is a pseudonym. In fact, the poet's name was very simple - Kirill Ivanovich Ivanov. Translated from the Mari "Yyvan Kyrla" means "Cyril, son of Ivan".

7. Khekhtsirsky lane

Khekhtsir is a small mountain range near Khabarovsk. You can even see its peaks from the city center, for example, from Komsomolskaya Square.

In honor of the ridge, a lane was named in Khabarovsk. It is located on the outskirts of the city, not far from the Khekhtsir State Nature Reserve.

8. Minnigali Gubaidullin Street

Minnigali Gubaidullin is a Hero of the Soviet Union from the small Bashkir village of Urshakbashkaramaly (another good toponymic tongue twister). He served as the commander of a machine-gun platoon on the Ukrainian front. He died on March 8, 1944, having accomplished a feat: Minnigali closed the embrasure of the Nazi bunker.

Minnigali Gubaidullin Street is located in two cities of Bashkiria: Ufa and Salavat.

9. Kronverksky Avenue

The street around the Military-Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineers and Signal Corps in St. Petersburg. Kronverksky Avenue was named after the kronverk (that is, fortification) of the Peter and Paul Fortress. The toponym appeared in 1845, after the fortress was no longer used for the defense of the city.

In Soviet times - from 1932 to 1991 - Kronverksky Avenue was called Maxim Gorky Avenue: at one time the writer lived in one of the houses on this street.

10. Dolores Ibarruri street

Streets in two Russian cities have such an unusual name: Yekaterinburg and Lipetsk. This toponym appeared during the Soviet era. Dolores Ibarruri Gomez is a communist, active participant in the Spanish Civil War.

In 1939, the Communist Party in Spain was banned, but it continued to operate underground. In the same year, Ibarruri emigrated to the USSR: the woman lived in the Soviet Union for many years, in the 60s she even received local citizenship. While in exile, Dolores was at the helm of the Spanish Communist Party: first as general secretary, and then as chairman. In 1975, Ibarruri returned to her homeland, and in 1977 the party was legalized.

11. Chavchavadze street

Why this street in Sochi bears such a name is not known exactly. Most likely, it was named after the Georgian prince Alexander Chavchavadze. He was the godson of Empress Catherine II, served in the Russian Imperial Army, participated in the Patriotic War of 1812, the Russian-Turkish War and other battles. Prince Chavchavadze also wrote poetry and translated Goethe, Voltaire, Rosin and other writers into Georgian works.

There is a street with the same name in the capital of Georgia - Tbilisi.

12. Igelekle street

This street is located in the Soviet district of Kazan. “Igelekle” is a Tatar word that sounds soft and sweet and is translated into Russian accordingly: “kind, noble, useful”.

If it was easy for you to pronounce the name of the street, try repeating it, only quickly and several times in a row. Surely it turned out something like ilekle, iglekle or ileklegle.