Yemanzhelinsk

Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names | 2005 | 268 words | Copyright

Yemanzhelinsk, Chelyabinsk/Russia Developed from a fortress built in 1747 with a name derived from the Yemanzhelinka River. This comes from the Tatar yaman ‘bad’ and yelga ‘river’, probably a reference to the unpotable nature of the water.

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