Аннотация: Popasna (Popasnaya). An essay on geographical and historical associations.
Popasna (Popasnaya). An essay on geographical and historical associations.
We do not set ourselves the task of "deciphering" the geographical name "Popasnaya".
There are many options and semantic nuances: to graze, a danger, to get ...
From the words "graze", "danger", "get" if geographical names were formed, then there would be tens of thousands of such names ...
Let's try to find something exclusive. Naturally, such an attempt would be only an unsubstantiated assumption.
Note, firstly, that "Popasnaya" and "Popasnoe" are located approximately on the same territory. They are separated from each other by not such a great distance (250 km or less).
Secondly, such a name, it seems, is not found anywhere outside this geographical area.
[Popasnaya
Popasnoe (Altai Territory)
Popasnoye (Belgorod region)
Popasnoye (Belokurakinsky district)
Popasne (Dnepropetrovsk region)
Popasne (Donetsk region)
Popasnoe (Kalacheevsky district)
Popasnoye (Kantemirovskiy district)
Popasnoye (Liskinsky district)
Popasnoye (Novoaydarsky district)
Popasne (Kharkiv region)
Popasny (Veydelevsky district)
Popasny (Novooskolsky district)
All settlements, - except for the one located in the Altai Territory (immigrants from some Popasny?), - are located in relative geographical proximity to each other]
Something noticeable and unusual (objects, event) could attract the attention of local residents - such that it turned into a collective memory and into a name.
Here, of course, it remains only to mentally construct the events of the distant past.
We turn to the dictionary of Vladimir Dal.
"ПАС [PAS], Polish or German, wide and strong ... belt ... Pasik, ... a strap with which the saber is suspended from the waist belt, part of porte-épée (of a leather belt with a supporting strap that passes over the right shoulder)... ".
In some settlements, for some task, detachments in unusual military uniforms were quartered? Servicemen girded with beautiful belts (porte-épée), which the locals have never seen? To such unusually beautifully dressed servicemen the name "Popasnye" stuck? And after - the settlements began to be called "Popasna (Popasnaya)"?
The uniform has changed (or become familiar) (or people in a similar military uniform no longer visited this area), and there was no reason for the emergence of new similar names?
Now we can only speculate...
Somewhere very far away - but still noticeable - are Popiel and Popelnya.
Popiel - the legendary Polish prince, the head of tribe of Polans.
Popelnya is an urban-type settlement, the center of the Popelnyansky district of the Zhytomyr region of Ukrainian SSR.
Is there a connection between them? But be that as it may, they exist - in history, in names ...
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May 10, 2022 15:03
Translation from Russian into English: May 10, 2022 15:55.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский "Попасная. Очерк географических и исторических ассоциаций".
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