The strangest Soviet names. Kukutsapol and Dazdraperma: strange names of Soviet children (3 photos)

Arville – Army of V.I. Lenin (France, 18th century... what the hell is Lenin’s army?)
Artaka – Artillery Academy
Vaterpezhekosma – Valentina Tereshkova – the first female cosmonaut (...and her mother Dazdraperma)
Vector - Great Communism triumphs (and at school they taught some directional segments)
Velior – The Great October Revolution (Tolkien was a communist???)
Velira – Great Worker (...and Valera too)
Veor – Great October Revolution (Ivanov Veor was worn by Dior)
Vidlen – Lenin's Great Ideas

Vilan - V.I. Lenin and the Academy of Sciences (Yeah, Dima Vilan with the song “I’m a night fucker”...)
Vilen - V. I. Lenin
Vilenor - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin? father of the revolution (I already asked about Tolkien...)
Vilora - V.I. Lenin - organizer of the revolution (Milora oil was spilled in Vilora’s kitchen)
Vilord - V.I. Lenin - organizer of the labor movement (Warlord, Skylord, Vilord...)
Vilorik - V.I. Lenin - liberator of workers and peasants (Epic picture - Vikings liberate workers and peasants...)
Vilyur - Vladimir Ilyich loves his Motherland (and he loves velor too)
Vil - V. I. Lenin
Vinun - Vladimir Ilyich will never die (communist action “name your son Vinun and don’t waste money on the funeral”
Whist – The great historical power of labor (How long do you play whist?)
Vladilen – Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Vladlen – Vladimir Lenin
Volen – Lenin’s will (Volen Semenovich was free in everything, even in his name.)
Vors - Voroshilovsky shooter (all this is nonsense about wool)
Gertrude – Heroine of Labor (Don’t drink wine, heroine of labor...)
Dazvsemir - Long live the world revolution
Dazdrasen - Long live the seventh of November
Dazdrasmygda – Long live the bond between city and village (Dazdraperma resting.oga)
Dazdraperma - Long live the first of May
Dalis - Long live Lenin and Stalin (and they were given to you...)
Division – Lenin’s cause lives on (but Dahl’s explanatory dictionary somehow disagrees)
Diner(a) – Child of a new era (Soviet elves have already appeared...)
Donera – Daughter of a New Era
Dotnara – Daughter of the working people
Idlen – Lenin's Ideas
Izaida - Follow Ilyich, baby
Izili – Executor of Ilyich’s covenants
Izil - Fulfill the commandments of Ilyich (a name for a Jewish boy, not otherwise)
Kid – Communist ideal (Kid translated according to the opinion of the Komsomol)
Kim - Communist Youth International (Kim Il Sung there)
Krarmia – Red Army
Cucutzapol – Corn – queen of the fields (Yeah, Quetzalcoatl...)
Lagshmivara - Camp Schmidt in the Arctic
Last - Latvian shooter (competitor to Vors, Voroshilov shooter)
Lapanalda – Papanin camp on the ice floe
Ledat – Lev Davidovich Trotsky
Ledrud - Lenin? children's friend
Lelyud – Lenin loves children
Lenar(a) – Lenin’s Army (Not a word about elves!)
Lengenmir - Lenin? genius of the world
Leninid – Lenin's ideas
Leninir – Lenin and the Revolution
Lenior – Lenin and the October Revolution
Lenora – Lenin is our weapon (I wonder if McCaffrey knows about this?)
Ribbon – Leninist Labor Army
Lentrosh – Lenin, Trotsky, Shaumyan
Forest – Lenin, Stalin (fir trees, pine trees...)
Lestak – Lenin, Stalin, communism
Leundezh - Lenin died, but his work lives on
Fox-Lenin and Stalin (Fox in a cage at the zoo is funny)
Liszt – Lenin and Stalin (find the difference with Fox)
Lorierik – Lenin, October Revolution, industrialization, electrification, radioification and communism
Luigi(a) – Lenin died, but the ideas are alive (there’s no other way to say it...)
Lunio – Lenin died, but the ideas remained
Love – Love Lenin
Marlene – Marx, Lenin (Marx, Lenin Dietrich...)
Maels – Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin
Maenlest – Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin
Mezhenda - International Women's Day (March Eighth, simply put)
Malor – Marx, Engels, Lenin, October Revolution (My Lord stood and was jealous)
Münd – International Youth Day
Ninel - Lenin (on the contrary and with a soft sign) (Actually, this dish exists...)
Niserkha - Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev (clean guy)
Odvar – Special Far Eastern Army (The Vikings are coming!)
Orletos - October Revolution, Lenin, labor? basis of socialism
Oyushminald (a) – O. Yu. Schmidt on the ice floe
Papir – Party pyramid
Perso(v?)strat – The first Soviet stratospheric balloon
Gender(s) for – Remember Lenin’s precepts (remembering Lenin’s precepts is probably useful. yes)
Pores – Remember the decision of the congresses
Pofistal – The winner of fascism Joseph Stalin (Is this medicine?)
Ruled - Lenin's Truth
Pridespar – Greetings to the delegates of the party congress
Pyatchet - Five-year plan at four years
Raitiya – District Printing House
Revmark – Revolutionary Marxism
Revmira - Revolutions of the world army (revolution of the world)
Rem - World Revolution
Rome – Revolution and Peace (he would be mayor of the Italian capital)
Roblen – Born to be a Leninist
Rosik – Russian Executive Committee
Ram – Revolution, Engels, Marx
Strong – The power of Lenin (the power of Lenin is strong. yes)
Stalen - Stalin, Lenin (there was no sex in the USSR. But there was an Albanian dialect)
Stator - Stalin triumphs (I carefully study the design of the electric motor...)
Taklis – Tactics of Lenin and Stalin
Tomik – Marxism and communism triumph
Tomil – The Triumph of Marx and Lenin
Trick(om) – Three "K"? Komsomol, Comintern, communism
Trolebuzina - Trotsky, Lenin, Bukharin, Zinoviev (And I thought it was the trolleybus that was so insulted...)
Trolen – Trotsky, Lenin
Uryurvkos - Hurray, Yura in space (And the orcs are here too...)
Fed – Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky
Chelnaldin(a) – Chelyuskin on an ice floe
Erlen – Era of Lenin
Yuralga – Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin
Yaslenik – I was with Lenin and Krypska...(... I played in the sandbox in kindergarten)

After the 1917 revolution, the list of names used to call boys and girls expanded significantly. Parents named their children after leaders, revolutionary events, and even geographic places. Today we remember the most unusual names that those born in the USSR had to live with.

The imagination of Soviet parents truly knew no bounds. But all new names and derived forms can be divided into several groups. Geographical names and seasons You could also choose a name by month of birth: December, Dekabrina, Noyabrina, September, February, April. Well, those whom she called October were especially lucky. Often parents were inspired by rivers, cities and mountains. The children were given names: Neva, Cairo, Lima, Paris, Himalaya, Altai, Angara, Ural and even Avksoma - Moscow on the contrary.
Nature and resources

A child born in the USSR could easily be christened Oak, Birch, Azalea, Alder or Carnation.

Mathematics, physics, chemistry and technology

Science, which was developing at an active pace, suggested good names to parents: Algebrina, Ampere, Hypotenuse, Netta (from “net”), Drezina, Om, Electrina, Elina (electrification + industrialization). Minerals and chemical elements were also honored: Granite, Ruby, Radium, Tungsten, Helium, Argent, Iridium.

Of course, what would the Soviet Union be without slogans, in honor of which abbreviated names were invented for children:

Dazvsemir - from “Long live the world revolution!”
Dazdranagon - from “Long live the people of Honduras!”
Dazdraperma - from “Long live the First of May!”
Dazdrasmygda - from “Long live the bond between city and village!”
Dazdrasen - from “Long live the Seventh of November!”
Dalis - from “Long live Lenin and Stalin!”
Damir (a) - from the slogans “Give us a world revolution!”, “Long live the world revolution” or “Long live the world.”
Dasdges - from “Long live the builders of the DneproHES!”
Division - from the abbreviation of the slogan “Lenin’s cause lives on.”
Deleor - from "Lenin's Case - October Revolution".
Demir - from the abbreviation of the slogan “Give us a world revolution!”

Revolutionary ideology and professions

Avtodor - from the abbreviated name of the “Society for the Promotion of Motorism and Road Improvement”.
Agitprop - from the abbreviated name (until 1934) of the Department of Agitation and Propaganda under the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).
Barricade (female version of the name - Barricade).
A fighter - from fighters for the just cause of the revolution and more.
Voenmor - from the abbreviation of the phrase “military sailor”.
Leader - everything is clear here.
Glasp - presumably from “glasnost press”.
Karmiy, Karmiya - from the abbreviation of the name Red Army
Kid - from the abbreviation of the phrase “communist ideal”.
Kim - from the name of the organization Communist Youth International.
Kravasil - (The Red Army is the strongest)
Kukutsapol - from an abbreviation of the slogan during the reign of N. S. Khrushchev “Corn is the queen of fields.”
National - from the abbreviation of the word international.
Pyachegod is an abbreviation for the slogan “Five-year plan in four years!”
Revvol - from the abbreviation of the phrase “revolutionary will”.
Revdar - from the abbreviation of the phrase “revolutionary gift”.
Sickle-I-Molot is a compound name; from the Soviet heraldic emblem.

Women's names often repeated men's names, but with the addition of the letter "a" at the end. There were also original ones:

Kommunera - from the abbreviation of the phrase "communist era".
Spark - from a common noun (this is the name of the main character of Boris Vasiliev’s story “Tomorrow there was a war”).
Laila - from the abbreviation of the phrase “Ilyich’s light bulb”.
Lucia - from Revolution.
Victory is from a common noun.
Celebration - from the abbreviation of the phrase “holiday of Soviet power.”
Revvola - from the abbreviation of the phrase “revolutionary wave”.

Leaders, revolutionary figures and heroes of the USSR

Bestreva - from the abbreviation of the phrase “Beria - Guardian of the Revolution.”
Bukharin - from the surname of N.I. Bukharin.
Budyon - from the surname of S. M. Budyonny.
Valterperzhenka - from the abbreviation of the phrase “Valentina Tereshkova - the first female cosmonaut.”
Dzerzh - named after F. E. Dzerzhinsky.
Dzefa - from the surname and given name Dzerzhinsky, Felix.
Kollontai - from the name of the party and statesman Alexandra Kollontai.
Ledat - from Lev Davidovich Trotsky.
Malice (Mels) is an abbreviation for the surnames Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin.

In the film “Hipsters,” the main character ends up in a Komsomol court after he drops the last letter of his name.
Niserkha - from the abbreviation of the first, patronymic and surname Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev.
Ordzhonika - from the surname of G.K. Ordzhonikidze.
Yurgoz - Yuri Gagarin orbited the Earth
LENIN

The names that were based on the name of Lenin stood out:

Varlen - Lenin's Great Army
Vidlen - from the abbreviation of the phrase “great ideas of Lenin.
Vil (a) - from the initials of the first name, patronymic and surname Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.
Vilen (a) - short for Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.
Vilenor - from the abbreviation of the slogan “V. I. Lenin is the father of the revolution.”
Vilian - from the abbreviation of the phrase “V. I. Lenin and the Academy of Sciences.”
Vilivs - from the initials of the first name, patronymic and surname of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin and Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin.
Vilik - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin and Communism.
Vilich is an abbreviation for the first and patronymic name Vladimir Ilyich.
Vilyur (a) - the name has several decoding options: from the abbreviation of the phrases “Vladimir Ilyich loves the workers”, “Vladimir Ilyich loves Russia” or “Vladimir Ilyich loves the Motherland”.
Vinun - from an abbreviation of the slogan “Vladimir Ilyich will never die.”
Zamvil - from the abbreviation of the phrase “deputy of V.I. Lenin.”
Idlen - from the abbreviation of the phrase “Lenin’s ideas”.
Izail, Izil - from the abbreviation of the phrase “executor of Ilyich’s covenants.”
Lelyud - from an abbreviation of the slogan “Lenin loves children.”
Lengenmir - from an abbreviation of the slogan “Lenin is the genius of the world.”
Lennor (a), Lenora - from an abbreviation of the slogan “Lenin is our weapon.”
Ninel - from the reverse reading of the surname Lenin.
Plinta - from the abbreviation of the phrase “Lenin’s party and the people’s labor army.”
Sometimes other names, no less dear and familiar to Soviet people, were placed next to Lenin (some of which, however, were later called traitors):

Lentrobukh - from the abbreviation of the surnames Lenin, Trotsky, Bukharin.
Lentrosh - from the abbreviation of the surnames Lenin, Trotsky, Shaumyan.
Forest - from the first letters of the surnames Lenin, Stalin.
Lestak - from an abbreviation of the slogan “Lenin, Stalin, communism!”
Lestaber - from the first letters of the surnames Lenin, Stalin, Beria.

The number of names formed on behalf of Stalin is significantly less than similar ones - from Lenin. However, they all sound loud:

Stalber - from an abbreviation of the surnames Stalin and Beria.
Stalen - from the abbreviation of the surnames Stalin, Lenin.
Stalenberia - from the abbreviation Stalin, Lenin, Beria.
Stalenita - from the abbreviation of the surnames Stalin, Lenin.
Stalet - from the abbreviation of the surnames Stalin, Lenin, Trotsky.
Staliv - from the abbreviation of the surname and initials Stalin I.V.
Stalik - from the surname of I.V. Stalin.
Stalin - also named after Stalin.

Borrowed names

It has become quite popular to name children after foreign heroes related either to the cause of the revolution or to art and science. So, in the USSR, girls began to appear named Angela (in honor of the American human rights activist Angela Davis), Zarema (a borrowed name, which was attributed the meaning “for the revolution of the world”), Rosa (in honor of Rosa Luxemburg), Clara - like Zetkin. The boys were named John or Jonrid (after the writer), Hume - in honor of the philosopher David Hume, Ravel (as the French composer Maurice Ravel) or Ernst - in honor of the German communist Ernst Thälmann.

Each era was characterized by its own fashion for clothing, hairstyle, style of communication and even names. In the Soviet Union, after the revolution of 1917 and until its collapse, children were very often given names derived from the symbolism of that time. Take, for example, the well-known Dazdraperma - a name created from the slogan “Long live May 1st!” This review presents the funniest names derived from geographical names, sciences, and revolutionary symbols.

The inhabitants, fascinated by the advanced achievements of Soviet science, gladly named their children: Tungsten, Helium, Hypotenuse, Railcar. Even the euphonious “Elina” is an abbreviation for “electrification and industrialization.”

Abbreviations derived from patriotic slogans were especially popular. People reinterpreted them as best they could:
Dazvsemir - Long live the world revolution!
Dazdranagon - Long live the people of Honduras!
Dazdrasmygda - Long live the bond between city and village!
Division - Lenin's cause lives on!
Deleor - Lenin's Case - October Revolution!

All kinds of social organizations also inspired citizens to create new names:
Avtodor is short for “Society for the Promotion of Motorism and Road Improvement.”
Voenmor – “Military Sailor”
Kid – “The Communist Ideal”
Kukutsapol - the slogan of Khrushchev’s times: “Corn is the queen of fields”
Celebration of Light - “Holiday of Soviet Power”
Pyachegod - “Five-year plan - in four years!”

Party leaders almost evoked reverence among the common people, and in order to somehow be involved with the powers that be, parents named their children by combinations of first names, patronymics and last names of the leaders:
Varlen – Lenin's Great Army
Vidlen – Lenin's Great Ideas
Vilyur – Vladimir Ilyich Lenin loves Russia
Izail – Executor of Ilyich’s covenants
Lelyud – Lenin loves children
Plinta – Lenin Party and the People's Labor Army
Another unusual name is Yurgag - a derivative of This man won millions of hearts not only because he was the first to fly into space, but also with his extraordinary charisma, sense of humor and charm.

The revolution of 1917 influenced not only further political events in the country, but also children's names. Some of them today cause distrust (such as Perkosrak or Waterpezhekosma), since they are more like outright name-calling. However, many so-called revolutionary names were actually found in the Soviet Union.

Names of geographical objects

This type of “name creation” was most popular in the thirties of the last century. These dates just fall peak shock associated with the formation and beginning of the functioning of the country, occupying one sixth of the land. It is significant (according to the observations of old-timers) that for the most part people named their children this way without any coercion from the authorities.

The basis of such names was geographical features, the names of which served to create a new name for “progressive” youth. A person’s name could be a mountain, a river, or the name of a city; curious that not only Soviet, but also foreign names of objects were used as a basis.

Among such male names, the most famous are Himalaya, Ural, Altai, Cairo, Irtysh, Paris. Female names in the same style - Neva, Lima, Angara, Volga, Florence, Taigina (from the word “taiga”). Avxoma stands apart - the name of the capital is backwards.

Names by month

The dates of the events of past years (especially those that were in one way or another connected with the revolution) were celebrated by the entire friendly country; in those days it was considered a special honor to be born, for example, in October or November. Of course, this contributed to the fact that ordinary Soviet citizens called their sons and daughters by names “by the month”:

January, January and January.
Fevralin and Fevralina.
Marta, Martyn, Martymyan, Marcin, Vosmart (March 8).
Aprelina, Aprilius (changed from “Aurelius”).
Maya, May, May Day, Maina.
July (consonant with Julius).
Augustina, August.
September.
Oktyabrina, Oktyabrin. Unusual October names include derivatives of Lenin, Stalin and revolution.
Noyabrina (who is the well-known Nonna Mordyukova).
Dekabrina (the first world chess champion in Moldova - Dekabrina Volfovna Kazatzker).

In addition, in the USSR of that time a child could be named after a tree. A boy could well “be” Oak, Cedar or Ash, and individual girls were called Azalea, Birch, Chrysanthemum, Carnation or Alder. And the names Rose and Lily are still very common.

Connection with science and the army

The scientific achievements of the Soviet Union even today inspire pride in our country; and in those days it was a rallying factor of incredible strength. Therefore, there is nothing surprising in the appearance of small Perkosrakov (stands for First Space Rocket), Uryurvkosov (meaning “Hurray, Yura in Space”!) and similar names.

Technical Advances

The implementation of such large-scale events across the country as industrialization and electrification led to the emergence of such names as Electrina, Elektromir, Elina, Industrialian, Energiy, Industrina and Natta. Interest in the exact sciences, as well as an increase in the level of education of the population, predetermined the birth of girls and boys with wonderful, although not very original, names:

Algebrina.
Hypotenuse.
Median
Ampere.
Curie.
Micron.
Electron.
Volt.
Minor (in honor of the musical mode in music). “Major,” by the way, was not used as a name in the Soviet Union.
Granite, Lapis Lazuli and Basalt (the influence of geologists in the family is noticeable).

Chemists generally have a whole table of elements, which contains sonorous names worthy of the builders of communism - Radium, Ruthenium, Vanadium, Iridium, Columbia (now this element is called niobium), Tungsten, Argent, Helium; some of them are still in use today.

The release of the Soviet electric plow (or tractor) “Kommunar” in 1924 predetermined the appearance of Traktorin and Traktor among girls and boys, respectively. Of course, the name “Kommunar” was also not left without attention, adding only minor changes to the word - Kommunara, Kommuner, Kommunell. According to unconfirmed reports, in the first years of the founding of the USSR there were such names as Combine, Turbine, Railcar, Diesel; some lucky ones could be named after a walking excavator (Shaes) or a central pharmaceutical warehouse (Tsas).

Scientific expeditions

The achievements and exploits of scientists who set out to explore the Arctic, as well as the exploits of the expedition of Otto von Schmidt and Ivan Dmitrievich Papanin, not only instilled enthusiasm and pride in people for their own, but also inspired them to create unusual names, the purpose of which was to perpetuate the activities of national heroes (well, , to some extent, become involved in their success). Among them, the most notable Sevmorputin is not what first comes to mind, but the “Northern Sea Route”.

The events that developed as a result of the operation to rescue the steamer "Chelyuskin" contributed to the appearance among the people of the name Oyushminald (O. Yu. Schmidt on ice), as well as Chernald (Chelyuskin on ice) and similar ones (Lapanalda, Lagshminalda, Lagshmivar, Lachecamora, Zipanalda, Drepanald, meaning the same thing).

Successes in the space industry

The historic flight of Yuri Gagarin, as well as other cosmonauts, caused a flurry of various newly invented Soviet names (the abbreviations of which are not so easy to decipher for a modern person) as well as some slogans addressed to the people.

A striking example of such a name is Vaterpezhekosma, or “Valentina Tereshkova, the first female cosmonaut.” There is an analogue of such a name (although it is difficult to call it a name) - Walterperzhenka, the essence is the same.

Gagarin, who captivated the Soviet people not only with his feat, but also with a charming smile, became the “culprit” of such names as Uryurvkos, Yuralga (cosmonaut’s initials), Yuravkos, Yurvkosur, Yurgag, Yurgoz (Yuri Gagarin orbited the Earth) and Urgavneb (hurray, Gagarin in the sky).

Red Army

The USSR revered its army no less than science, the day of its formation was February 23, 1918. Children were called not only by the abbreviation of the Red Army, but also abbreviated chants and slogans of those years:

Lenard, Arville - Lenin's army. The female version is Lenara.
Langguard - Lenin's guard.
Krarmiya, Krasarm and Krasarmiya are the red army.
Flame, Krasarmeets.
Zvezda, Zvezdarina.
Voenmor - military sailor.
Pobisk is a generation of fighters and builders of communism.

In those days, the name Kaleria could have been encountered, meaning “an easy victory of the Red Army over the Japanese imperialists.” Such long abbreviations, as you know, were not uncommon in Soviet times.

Some people at that time could be called Tovarishtai and Tovarischtai (they were worn, for example, by the Tuvan sculptor Ondar Tovarischtai Chadambaevich and the politician Khovalyg Vladislav Tovarischtaiovich). Also to this list you can add designations of equipment and specific army terms - Aviation, Avangard (there was such an actor - Leontyev Avangard Nikolaevich), Aviya, Avietta, Auror and Aurora, Barrikad (scientist Zamyshlyaev Barrikad Vyacheslavovich), Barrikada, as well as the wonderful name Glavspirt and other.

Patriotic appeals and slogans

The vast area of propaganda of the Soviet Union was built on short chants and slogans expressing certain ideas of communism in a brief form; many ridiculous and strange names of Soviet origin are a shortened phrase calling for remembering Lenin’s cause or reminiscent of Soviet holidays.

One of these holidays was the Day of Spring and Labor - May 1, which was celebrated throughout the USSR. Perhaps the most famous unusual name is associated with this holiday - Dazdraperma, which means “Long live the First of May!”.

They wished hello not only to such memorable dates, but also to the revolutionary movement, and even to some foreign countries. The following names fit this:

Dazdrasmygda - the name glorifies the “link” or the union of village and city residents into a single people.
Dazvsemir is a glorification of the World Revolution, the onset of which was eagerly awaited every year.
Dazdrasen - denotes the memorable date of the October Revolution (November 7).

Dazdranagon wished good health to the entire population of Honduras (of course, first of all - to the leaders of communism like Padilla Rucha), Dalis - the first letters of the surnames of Lenin and Stalin, and Dasdges - to the builders of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Power Station. Such calls could also have an educational character, for example, “Down with illiteracy!” transformed into the female name Dolonegrama. In 1925, the name Lyubistina (love the truth) and others like it were recorded.

Politicians

After the great victory over the Nazis, names appeared that were in one way or another connected with this memorable date. Pofistal - a male name glorifying Stalin(“defeating the fascists I. Stalin”), Victory, Pravdina, Freedom, Sostager (soldier - Stalin’s hero), Stalber (Stalin, Beria), Stator (Stalin triumphs); and sometimes just Stalin, Socialina, Stalen, Stalenita, Stalenberiya, Stalik, Staliy, Staliv.

However, the desire to name their children in an original way was present not only under Lenin and Stalin; The Khrushchev era also distinguished itself with some pearls in the field of names. Eg, Kukutsapol (stands for "corn - queen of the fields"), Kinemm, which comes from the word “cinema”, Sickle-and-Molot or simply Sickle (or simply Hammer, the meaning is clear without explanation), Glasp (publicity of the press), and also Niserkh (the first letters of Khrushchev’s full name).

An interesting example is a name whose purpose is not to glorify a figure or field of science, but to brand a person with shame; in particular, Solpred stands for “Solzhenitsyn is a traitor.” And successes in implementing the economic plan were reflected in names like Uspepya (successes of the first five-year plan), Pyatvchet and Pyachegod - “five in four” or a five-year plan in four years.

Lenin and his ideology

Of course, the leader of the world proletariat and one of the main ideologists of communism are leaders as the basis for people's name creation. Some of the names are still used by people today; others have sunk into oblivion due to the collapse of the USSR, as well as because of their outright absurdity. These names are divided into three main groups:

Full name of the leader: Vladlen and Vladlena, Vladil, Vladilen, Viulen, Vlail, Violen, Viorel, Vil (initials), Vilenin, Velenin, Vilorik, Villior, Vileor, Vilork, Vilor (father of the revolution or liberator of workers and peasants), as well as simply Leader.
Abbreviations meaning the initials of politicians, famous communists or slogans associated with Vladimir Ilyich: Vinun (Vladimir Ilyich will never die), Volen (Lenin's will), Delezh (Lenin's cause lives), Ledrud (Lenin is a friend of children), Lengenmir (Lenin - genius of the world), Leundezh (Lenin died, but his work lives on), Mels (Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin) and the like.
Names indirectly associated with the leader, which were most popular in the 20s and 30s of the 20th century. Rem (World Revolution), Rem (Revolution, Engels, Marx), Tomik (triumph of Marxism and communism), Tomil (triumph of Marx and Lenin), Rome (Revolution and Peace), Roblen (born to be a Leninist), Revmark (revolutionary Marxism) , Maenlest (initials of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin), Marlene (a combination of Marx and Lenin), as well as the calling name Lyublen (love Lenin).

Among the particularly popular names in the USSR are Ninel (the leader's surname backwards) and Luigi, which was borrowed from abroad. The decoding of some names is truly amazing: Trolebuzina is a name that includes the letters of the surnames of four political figures - Trotsky, Lenin, Bukharin and Zinoviev.

Wanting to stand out from other families (or perhaps wanting to please the Soviet regime), individual citizens called their sons names like Pridespar (hello to the delegates of the party congress), Yasleik (I am with Lenin and Krupskaya), Izil (follow the behests of Ilyich), Kim (the communist ideal of youth ), Istmat (historical materialism) and the unsurpassed Vydeznar (which means - hold the banner of the revolution higher!).

Of course, girls were also not “offended” by a mediocre name, calling them in addition to Dazdraperma and other revolutionary names: Izaida (follow the behests of Ilyich, baby), Donera (daughter of the new era), Dotnara (daughter of the working people), Bukharin (of course, in honor of the figure), Buden, Zheldora (railway), Zaklimen (the first lines of the “Internationale”), Capital, Laila (Ilyich's light bulb), the less funny Lucius, as well as all derivatives from the word “revolution” (Revolla, Remira, Revolda, Revoluta, Revita).

Attention, TODAY only!

After the 1917 revolution, the list of names used to call boys and girls expanded significantly. Parents named their children after leaders, revolutionary events, and even geographic places. Inspired by news from the State Duma about the ban on certain names...

The imagination of Soviet parents truly knew no bounds. But all new names and derived forms can be divided into several groups.

Nature and resources

A child born in the USSR could easily be christened Oak, Birch, Azalea, Alder or Carnation.

Mathematics, physics, chemistry and technology

Slogans

Of course, what would the Soviet Union be without slogans, in honor of which abbreviated names were invented for children:
Dazvsemir - from “Long live the world revolution!”
Dazdranagon - from “Long live the people of Honduras!”
Dazdraperma - from “Long live the First of May!”
Dazdrasmygda - from “Long live the bond between city and village!”
Dazdrasen - from “Long live the Seventh of November!”
Dalis - from “Long live Lenin and Stalin!”
Damir (a) - from the slogans “Give us a world revolution!”, “Long live the world revolution” or “Long live the world.”
Dasdges - from “Long live the builders of the DneproHES!”
Division - from the abbreviation of the slogan “Lenin’s cause lives on.”
Deleor - from "Lenin's Case - October Revolution".
Demir - from the abbreviation of the slogan “Give us a world revolution!”

May Day slogan. 1931

Geographical names and seasons

You could also choose a name based on your month of birth: December, Dekabrina, Noyabrina, Sentyabrina, Fevralin, Aprelina. Well, those whom she called October were especially lucky.
Often parents were inspired by rivers, cities and mountains. The children were given names: Neva, Cairo, Lima, Paris, Himalaya, Altai, Angara, Ural and even Avksoma - Moscow on the contrary.

Revolutionary ideology and professions

The Russian language owes the revolution many new words and concepts that have become firmly entrenched in everyday life. Ideology became another source of inspiration for finding names for your children: the boy could very well get the name:
Avtodor - from the abbreviated name of the “Society for the Promotion of Motorism and Road Improvement”.
Agitprop - from the abbreviated name (until 1934) of the Department of Agitation and Propaganda under the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).
Barricade (female version of the name - Barricade).
A fighter - from fighters for the just cause of the revolution and more.
Voenmor - from the abbreviation of the phrase “military sailor”.
Leader - everything is clear here.
Glasp - presumably from “glasnost press”.
Karmiy, Karmiya - from the abbreviation of the name Red Army
Kid - from the abbreviation of the phrase “communist ideal”.
Kim - from the name of the organization Communist Youth International.
Kravasil - (The Red Army is the strongest)
Kukutsapol - from an abbreviation of the slogan during the reign of N. S. Khrushchev “Corn is the queen of fields.”
National - from the abbreviation of the word international.
Pyachegod is an abbreviation for the slogan “Five-year plan in four years!”
Revvol - from the abbreviation of the phrase “revolutionary will”.
Revdar - from the abbreviation of the phrase “revolutionary gift”.
Sickle-I-Molot is a compound name; from the Soviet heraldic emblem.
Women's names often repeated men's names, but with the addition of the letter "a" at the end. There were also original ones:
Kommunera - from the abbreviation of the phrase communist era.
Spark - from a common noun (this is the name of the main character of Boris Vasiliev’s story “Tomorrow there was a war”).
Laila - from the abbreviation of the phrase “Ilyich’s light bulb”.
Lucia - from Revolution.
Victory is from a common noun.
Celebration - from the abbreviation of the phrase “holiday of Soviet power.”
Revvola - from the abbreviation of the phrase “revolutionary wave”.

Leaders, revolutionary figures and heroes of the USSR

Revolutionary figures, leaders and “ordinary heroes” of the USSR provided, perhaps, the most abundant soil for new names. As a rule, they were made up of the first letters of the first name and last name, or from the last names of several people, and sometimes it was a last name + slogan:
Bestreva - from the abbreviation of the phrase “Beria - Guardian of the Revolution.”
Bukharin - from the surname of N.I. Bukharin.
Budyon - from the surname of S. M. Budyonny.
Valterperzhenka - from the abbreviation of the phrase “Valentina Tereshkova - the first female cosmonaut.” Dzerzh - named after F. E. Dzerzhinsky.
Dzefa - from the surname and given name Dzerzhinsky, Felix.
Kollontai - from the name of the party and statesman Alexandra Kollontai.
Ledat - from Lev Davidovich Trotsky.
Malice (Mels) is an abbreviation for the surnames Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin.
In the film “Hipsters,” the main character ends up in a Komsomol court after he drops the last letter of his name.

Hipster Mel
Niserkha - from the abbreviation of the first, patronymic and surname Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev.
Ordzhonika - from the surname of G.K. Ordzhonikidze.
Yurgoz - Yuri Gagarin orbited the Earth.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

The names that were based on the name of Lenin stood out:
Varlen - Lenin's Great Army
Vidlen - from the abbreviation of the phrase “great ideas of Lenin.
Vil (a) - from the initials of the first name, patronymic and surname Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.
Vilen (a) - short for Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.
Vilenor - from the abbreviation of the slogan “V. I. Lenin is the father of the revolution.”
Vilian - from the abbreviation of the phrase “V. I. Lenin and the Academy of Sciences.”
Vilivs - from the initials of the first name, patronymic and last name Vladimir Ilyich Lenin and Joseph Vissarionovich
Vilik - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin and Communism.
Vilich is an abbreviation for the first and patronymic name Vladimir Ilyich.
Vilyur (a) - the name has several decoding options: from the abbreviation of the phrases “Vladimir Ilyich loves the workers”, “Vladimir Ilyich loves Russia” or “Vladimir Ilyich loves the Motherland”.
Vinun - from an abbreviation of the slogan “Vladimir Ilyich will never die.”
Zamvil - from the abbreviation of the phrase “deputy of V.I. Lenin.”
Idlen - from the abbreviation of the phrase “Lenin’s ideas”.
Izail, Izil - from the abbreviation of the phrase “executor of Ilyich’s covenants.”
Lelyud - from an abbreviation of the slogan “Lenin loves children.”
Lengenmir - from an abbreviation of the slogan “Lenin is the genius of the world.”
Lennor (a), Lenora - from an abbreviation of the slogan “Lenin is our weapon.”
Ninel - from the reverse reading of the surname Lenin.
Plinta - from the abbreviation of the phrase “Lenin’s party and the people’s labor army.”
Sometimes other names, no less dear and familiar to Soviet people, were placed next to Lenin (some of which, however, were later called traitors)
Lentrobukh - from the abbreviation of the surnames Lenin, Trotsky, Bukharin.
Lentrosh - from the abbreviation of the surnames Lenin, Trotsky, Shaumyan.
Forest - from the first letters of the surnames Lenin, Stalin.
Lestak - from an abbreviation of the slogan “Lenin, Stalin, communism!”
Lestaber - from the first letters of the surnames Lenin, Stalin, Beria.

Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich.

The number of names formed on behalf of Stalin is significantly less than similar ones - from Lenin. However, they all sound loud:
Stalber - from an abbreviation of the surnames Stalin and Beria.
Stalen - from the abbreviation of the surnames Stalin, Lenin.
Stalenberia - from the abbreviation Stalin, Lenin, Beria.
Stalenita - from the abbreviation of the surnames Stalin, Lenin.
Stalet - from the abbreviation of the surnames Stalin, Lenin, Trotsky.
Staliv - from the abbreviation of the surname and initials Stalin I.V.
Stalik - from the surname of I.V. Stalin.
Stalin - also named after Stalin.

Actress Irina Cherichenko as Iskra Polyakova in the film based on Vasiliev’s story “Tomorrow there was a war.”