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Bottom, Winter, Opochka — Rosreestr listed cities with unusual names

The cities of Dno, Winter, Opochka and Prytalovo entered the top of the original names of settlements in Russia, writes TASS with reference to the Rosreestr and the data of the State Catalog of Geographical Names, the operator of which is PPC Roskadaster.

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The cities of Dno, Winter, Opochka and Prytalovo entered the top of the original names of settlements in Russia, writes TASS with reference to the Rosreestr and the data of the State Catalog of Geographical Names, the operator of which is PPC Roskadaster.

Three cities from the list are in the Pskov region: Bottom, Opochka and Tortalovo. In the Irkutsk region, the list includes Winter and Bodaibo, in Murmansk – Kandalaksha, in Omsk – Nazovaevsk. Also in the top were Puchezh in the Ivanovo region, Pyt-Yakh in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District, Labytnangi in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District and Dagestan Lights in Dagestan.

On April 1, Rosreestr published a list of geographical objects of Russia with the most ridiculous names. Most of the funny names are concentrated in the Amur region. Rosreestr also mentioned a village called Khokhotui in the Trans-Baikal Territory, it has existed there for 125 years.

Source: РБК ↗

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