25 of the strangest names invented in the USSR

Some parents are eager to give their child an unusual name that has a special meaning. Particularly eccentric individuals, for example, name their children X Æ A-Xii and Tau Techno Mechanicus. And some give names for newborns in honor of the heroes of the series: Theon, Tyrion, Daenerys, Arya or Wednesday.

In fact, the desire of parents to name a child in such a way as to demonstrate their political views or philosophy of life is nothing new. For example, literally 100 years ago, at the dawn of the Soviet Union, there was a peculiar fashion for compound words and abbreviations. And then they also experimented mercilessly with names.

We have collected the most original options in the article. Most of these names were taken from tear-off calendars, mass production of which was established in the USSR since 1921.

1. Vector

Many names in the USSR were made up of the first letters of various slogans. Vector is one of them. Do you think this is a mathematical term? No, it's

means "Great communism triumphs."

2. Luigi

When gamers hear this name, they will probably first think of Brother Mario from the Nintendo video game series. But the USSR had its own version of this name. It was educated from the phrase “Lenin died, but his ideas are alive.”

3. Gertrude

In general, the female name Gertrude is German, and it is made up of the roots of the words “spear” and “strength”. The working people of the USSR liked it. But since they didn’t make copies in the Union, they found him another transcript - "Hero of Labor".

Gertrude is not the only existing name into which the Soviet people put a slogan. For example, the name Renat in the USSR was connected not with the eastern version of “Rinat”, but with the slogan “Revolution, science, work”.

4. Kaleria

No, Kaleria is not a mistake in the word “Valeria”. In this name there are Soviet people saved slogan “The Red Army easily defeated the imperialists of Japan.” However, there is another decoding option - “Red Cavalry”. At least one celebrity is known to bear this name - opera singer, People's Artist of the USSR Kaleria Vladimirova.

5. Pile

No, this name has nothing to do with carpets. This reduction honorary title "Voroshilov shooter". This is what the Red Army called people who successfully passed the standards for the possession of small arms.

6. Tractor

In 1923, the USSR produced the first domestic tractor. And the working people were clearly impressed by this significant event. In connection with this there were recorded such euphonious names as Tractor and Tractorina.

7. Lelyud

Naturally, the figure of the leader of the world proletariat aroused great respect among many residents of the USSR and a desire to name their children after him. Hence the numerous names compiled from the phrase “Vladimir Ilyich Lenin”: Vladlen, Vilen, Lenville, Lenvlad, Lenian and Ninel. The latter is Lenin in reverse.

But these are all flowers - much more was collected from slogans with the leader’s name eccentric names. For example, Plinta - “Lenin’s party and the people’s labor army” and Vilyur - “Vladimir Ilyich loves the workers.” Or Lenuza, “Lenin-Ulyanov Testaments”, which later firmly settled down in the Tatar language.

The same thing original of similar names is Lelyud. It meant “Lenin loves children.”

8. Sestalinka

If you are a fan of Stalin and want to name a child after him, but you are having a girl, Joseph is not suitable. However, the imagination of the Soviet man found a way out. The girl could have been called Sestalinka - this is the name compiled from the phrase “Stalin’s sister.” Joseph Dzhugashvili, by the way, had no sisters, only two brothers - Mikhail and George, who died in childhood.

9. Velipedastal

No, this noble name has nothing to do with the production of bicycles. This reduction from the phrase “Great teacher Stalin.” Because Joseph Vissarionovich taught communism, obviously.

Another interesting one option of the same kind - Pofistal. It stands for “Victory of Fascism Joseph Stalin.”

10. Tungsten

Industry was actively developing in the USSR, and it served as another source of inspiration for unusual names. Especially popular there were various chemical elements and minerals - for example, Tungsten.

Also children could name Helium, Radium, Iridium, Thorium (or the female version - Thorium), Ruthenium, Rhenium (or Rhenium), Potassium, Vanadium, Granite, Ruby and Diamond. And there were also simple and catchy Electron and Electrina.

11. Bestreva

Sometimes, when creating new names, they used the surnames of people who were later called enemies of the people. As a result worked out original constructions: Lentrosh - “Lenin, Trotsky, Shaumyan”), Lentrobukh - “Lenin, Trotsky, Bukharin”, Lestaber - “Lenin, Stalin, Beria” and Ledat - “Lev Davidovich Trotsky”.

But perhaps the most interesting of them is Bestreva. It means "Beria - Guardian of the Revolution." Probably after 1953, when the last one was shot on charges of treason, the people who named the children that way were at least embarrassed.

12. Trolebuzin

In addition to the male Trolebuzin, there was also a female version - Trolebuzin. This is another name made up of the names of the ideologists of the revolution. It deciphered as "Trotsky, Lenin, Bukharin, Zinoviev." True, three of these four were later declared enemies of the people and eliminated, so the name was unlikely to be popular for long.

13. Orelitos

Orelitos sounds like a name not for a young communist, but for a character in an epic fantasy about elves. Perhaps this would be the name of Legolas's brother from The Lord of the Rings if Thranduil had two sons.

But in fact it was invented in the 30s - the name was made up of the slogan “October Revolution, electrification, industrialization - the triumph of socialism.”

14. Marenlenst

Another name worthy of a Game of Thrones hero. But in fact it collected from the first letters of the surnames Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin.

15. Rambo

The character John James Rambo, a Vietnam War veteran, first appeared in David Morrell's 1972 novel First Blood. It was also made into a film starring Sylvester Stallone.

But in the Soviet “Calendars of Revolutionary Names” the name Rambo flashed long before it was expropriated by an American writer. It was an abbreviation for “Revolution, electrification, world Bolshevism, October.”

16. Dolonegram

It may now seem to you that this name carries something offensive for dark-skinned people. But in fact it was formed from the slogan of the 20s “Down with illiteracy!” True, there is no information in history that they actually called someone by it, but you must agree - it sounds. The name also had a female version - Dolonograma.

Another similar slogan name is Dolkap, or Dolkada. It means "Down with capitalism!"

17. Oyushminald

There is also a female form - Oyushminalda. The name appeared in the 1930s. The fact is that on February 13, 1934, the steamship Chelyuskin was crushed by ice and sank. 104 crew members, including the ship's commander, Captain Schmidt, survived after landing on the ice. The castaways were rescued, and the memory of this event was immortalized in the name of Oyushminald. It stands for “Otto Yulievich Schmidt on an ice floe.”

18. Electrification

After the October Revolution of 1917 in the USSR started large-scale work on installing power supply lines in cities. This led to the emergence of a very original name - Electrification. For friends, just Elya.

In honor of those events, the girl could be named Elina, which stood for “Electrification and Industrialization.”

19. Lorierik

This name also has a feminine form - Lorierika. This is an abbreviation compiled from the words “Lenin, the October Revolution, industrialization, electrification, radioification and communism.” Let us recall: radiofication is the placement in cities of broadcasting systems that receive signals both via cable and via radio waves. In the USSR, this process began in the mid-20s.

20. Waterpezhekosma

On June 16, 1963, Valentina Tereshkova made her flight on the Vostok-6 spacecraft. In honor of this significant event, the name Vaterpezhekosma was coined. Deciphered it’s like “Valentina Tereshkova - the first female cosmonaut.”

21. Pencil

It was not only in the Russian language that new names were formed for the glory of communism. In Buryat, for example, in the same manner appeared male name Karandashiil. Do you think it has something to do with pencils? No, this is a distorted surname of the revolutionary Nestor Kalandarishvili.

22. Comrade

Another unusual name appeared thanks to the love for the Soviet ideology of the Buryat and Tuvan peoples. As you might guess, it is derived from the word comrade - after all, this is how citizens who were equal to each other were supposed to treat each other in a communist society.

23. Dazdraperma

Some names, formed from various communist slogans, were quite euphonious. For example, Damir. Do you think this is something oriental? No, it is deciphered as “Long live the world revolution” (in another interpretation - “Long live the world”).

There were also slogan names: Deleor, which meant “Lenin’s Cause - October Revolution”, Dalis - “Long live Lenin and Stalin!”, Kravsil - “Red the army is stronger than all!”, Lyubistin - “Love the truth!”, Revvol - “Revolutionary Will” and Comintern - “Communist International".

But some names turned out to be clearly unsuccessful. For example, Dazdraperma is contains slogan “Long live the First of May!” Following him are Dazdrasen - “Long live the Seventh of November!” and Dazdrasmygda - “Long live the bond between city and village!”

24. Kukutsapol

In 1959, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev I arrived in the USA and visited a corn farm in Iowa. There he saw how Americans farmed and decided to do the same, only better. The so-called “Corn Campaign” began in the Union, and 37 million hectares of arable land were given over to this crop.

Documentary films were made about the benefits of corn, poems were written about it, concerts, television shows and radio shows were dedicated to corn. Corn growers were created among Komsomol members and pioneers. It got to the point that in the wake of “people’s love” for this plant there was invented the name Kukutsapol (another form is Kutsapol), which meant “Corn is the queen of the fields.”

25. Dognut-Peregnat

The phrase “Catch up and overtake” first appeared in Lenin’s work “The Impending Catastrophe and How to Deal with It,” written in September 1917. There he has flashes the phrase “Either perish, or catch up with the advanced countries and overtake them economically as well.”

But the slogan gained popularity after Khrushchev’s speech on May 22, 1957, when he promised “to catch up and surpass America in three years in the production of meat, milk and butter per capita.”

From these words there was created compound name Dognat-Peregnat, or Dognaty-Peregnaty. Moreover, this could be called not only one person, but also, for example, the brothers Dognat and Peregnat.

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