Dyatlovy Gory - seven hills located on the right (high) banks of the Oka and Volga rivers at the place of their confluence. Nizhny Novgorod was founded on these hills.
| Dyatlovy mountains | |
|---|---|
 Modern view of the Woodpecker Mountains and the Kremlin from the Volga | |
| City |  Nizhny Novgorod |
| County | Upland part |
| Area | Nizhny Novgorod region |
| First mention | 1221 year |
| Population | Nizhny Novgorod |
Name Origin
There are several versions of the origin of the name:
- The name could have come from the outward resemblance of high red-white clay to the black veins of shores formed by hills, with the coloring of the plumage of a woodpecker [1] .
- Some local historians believe that the Dyatlovy Gory got its name because of the large number of woodpeckers that supposedly lived in the forests that once covered the right bank of the Oka [2] .
- According to one of the legends, Woodpecker is the nickname of the Mordvin - pagan , which he received because he was forced to constantly work with an ax to build dwellings for his family, consisting of eighteen wives and seventy sons, at the confluence of the Oka and Volga [1] .
- According to another legend, the origin of the name is associated with the name of the sorcerer Woodpecker, who lived in the gorge of the mountain near the mouth of the Oka River even before the foundation of the city there. In the same area lived Starling - Mordvin , married to eighteen women who bore him seventy children. After the death of the Woodpecker, the Starling buried him, as requested, on the top of one of the mountains (hills), called the "Woodpeckers" [3] [4] .
Sources
- ↑ 1 2 Our Lower City. (HTML). www.nn785.ru. - An article on the history of the emergence of Nizhny Novgorod. Date of treatment March 31, 2009. Archived February 22, 2012.
- ↑ A. S. Gatsky. Nizhny Novgorod. Nizhny Novgorod, 1877. (Link on benk.nn.ru Archived copy of December 23, 2012 to Wayback Machine - Big Encyclopedia of the Nizhny Novgorod Territory (electronic edition).
- ↑ V.N. Morokhin. Legends and traditions of the Volga River. Nizhny Novgorod., Books., 2002., ISBN 5-94706-005-1
- ↑ P.I. Melnikov (Andrei Pechersky). Full composition of writings. Second Edition. SPb., 1909., T VII., P. 414. (Link on benk.nn.ru Archived copy of December 23, 2012 to Wayback Machine - Big Encyclopedia of the Nizhny Novgorod Territory (electronic edition).
Literature
- Dyatlovy Gory // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.