04-13-2013, 04:04 PM
As I've said before the renaming of places is disastrous for researchers. It gets worse when not only facing renaming but strange translations and transliterations of place names. I've had lots of troubles finding regions awarding items in the post war period in non-Russian SSRs.
I don't think I'm the only one as there are a few wikipedia pages of Azeri places where it just reads "unknown if renamed or still exists". Mind you with the regional rubber stamps the place had to be populated enough to have a regional committee. Military actions could be on "hill x" or "farm y" and without all the details could be absolutely impossible to locate.
More helpful than the citations that just read "killed 4 Romanians on 5th January" or "repaired vehicle under fire".
1st Belorussian was engaged in the Dnepr-Carpathian offensive at that time and the 1st Ukrainian was East of L'vov
Going by the dates I doubt any of these places are in Russia.
I don't think I'm the only one as there are a few wikipedia pages of Azeri places where it just reads "unknown if renamed or still exists". Mind you with the regional rubber stamps the place had to be populated enough to have a regional committee. Military actions could be on "hill x" or "farm y" and without all the details could be absolutely impossible to locate.
More helpful than the citations that just read "killed 4 Romanians on 5th January" or "repaired vehicle under fire".
1st Belorussian was engaged in the Dnepr-Carpathian offensive at that time and the 1st Ukrainian was East of L'vov
Going by the dates I doubt any of these places are in Russia.
"Signed with his own rubber stamp"
