Trube, Lev Ludwigovich

Born in the family of hairdresser Ludwig Trube and a native of Nizhny Novgorod Anna Ivanovna (maiden name - Kotelnikova). Father is a Latvian by nationality, mother before the revolution belonged to the philistine estate.

In 1940-1944, Leo studied at the Faculty of Geography at the Gorky State Pedagogical Institute. After graduating with honors, from 1944 until the end of his days he taught at the alma mater. Lev Ludwigovich was the first among graduates of the Faculty of Geography to defend his dissertation (1951, Moscow State University). Doctoral dissertation defended in 1988.

He was buried in Nizhny Novgorod, at the Maryina Roscha cemetery.

The science

The main interests of L. L. Trube lay in the fields of physical geography, population geography, and toponymy. He has published 12 books and 350 articles. Among the books: “Our Cities” (1954), “Dictionary of Local Geographic Terms” (1959, co-authored with V. G. Trube), “Gorky Region. Nature and population ”(1968, co-authored with A. F. Shubin),“ Geography of the Gorky region ”(1978),“ Geography of the city of Gorky ”(1971),“ Population of the city of Gorky ”(1982 )

L. L. Trube is the founder of the study of Nizhny Novgorod toponymy and onomastics. The most significant book by L. L. Trube on toponymy is “How did the geographical names of the Gorky region arise” (Gorky, 1962). By genre, it is a toponymic dictionary containing over 400 root words related to the names of approximately 1000 settlements and 100 rivers, as well as a number of other geographical objects, in particular localities. This also includes a number of names relating to the toponymy of the city of Gorky.

Heritage Assessment

On the occasion of the 80th birthday of L. L. Trube, a book composed of fifty toponymic notes by L. L. Trube was published at the Stolniy Grad Moscow publishing house. It is called "Landmarks of the Nizhny Novgorod".

On the website of NGPU them. Kozma Minin noted that L. L. Trube is one of the most cited foreign geographic scientists abroad. He was noted among the largest Soviet urbanists in the work of famous French geographers J. Bozhe-Garnier and J. Chabot, “Essays on the Geography of Cities” (1967).

Author of textbooks and monographs; in total he published 12 books, 350 articles.

Among them: “Our Cities” (1954), “How did the geographical names of the Gorky Region arise” (1962), “Geography of the Gorky Region”, “Geography of the City of Gorky”, “Population of the City of Gorky”.

The main works of L. L. Trube on onomastics ^[1]

• How did the geographical names of the Gorky region arise? - Gorky: Gorky Prince. Publishing House, 1962. - 192 p.
• To the toponymy of settlements of the Gorky region // Pitannya onomastics. Materials of the 2nd Republic of Narada with food onomastics. - Kyiv, 1965.S. 215-220. In collaboration with B. S. Khorev.
• Toponymy in educational geography and geographical literature // Study of geographical names. M., 1966.S. ​​172-173.
• Mordovian topolems in the Gorky region // Questions of Finno-Ugric linguistics. 4. - Izhevsk, 1967.S. 243-244.
• About the former resettlement of the Mordovians in the Gorky region according to toponymy. Proceedings of the NIIALIE. Vol. 34. - Saransk, 1968.S. 234-246.
• Mordovian toponymy of the Mordovian ASSR and the Gorky region // Issues of Mordovian linguistics. Vol. 36. - Saransk, 1969.S. 202-204.
• Naive etymology and folklore in toponymy // Onomastics of the Volga region. - Ulyanovsk, 1969. C. 182-185. In collaboration with G. M. Ponomarenko. "To read
• About repeating oronyms (transferred oronyms, doublet oronyms and homoonymima) // Oronimika. - M., 1969.S. 15-19.
• The experience of toponymic study of one district (Voskresensky district of the Gorky region) // Onomastics of the Volga region. - Ulyanovsk, 1969.S. 159-163. In collaboration with V. A. Churbanova.
• The ethnonym Korel in the toponymy of the Gorky region // Onomastics of the Volga region. - Ulyanovsk, 1969.S. 164-166. In collaboration with N. Ya. Makarycheva.
• Local geographical terms in the toponymy of the Gorky region // Local geographical terms (Geography. Sat. 81). - M., 1970.S. 159-162.
• About new names of cities of our country // Onomastics of the Volga region. 2. - Gorky, 1971.P. 107—111. In collaboration with B. S. Khorev.
• Transferred toponyms of the Gorky region // Onomastics of the Volga region. 2. - Gorky, 1971.P. 287-289.
• Hydronyms of the Gorky region with the “bark” formant // Questions of Soviet Finno-Ugric Studies. - Saransk, 1972.P. 25.
• Toponyms of the same name of the Gorky region and the Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic // Dialects and toponymy of the Volga region. Vol. 1. - Cheboksary, 1972.P. 20-23.
• Personal Mordovian names in the toponymy of the Gorky region and some questions of the formation of its population // Onomastics of the Volga Region. 3. - Ufa, 1973.P. 259-262.
• Toponyms of the Mari, Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republics and the Gorky Region with the formant -ner // Issues of Mari linguistics. Vol. Z. - Yoshkar-Ola, 1973.P. 60-61.
• Reflection of nature traits in the toponymy of the Gorky region // Toponymy of Central Russia (Geography Issues, Sat. 94). - M., 1974. S. 147-153.
• Ethnonyms in the toponymy of the Gorky region // Toponymy of Central Russia. (Geography Issues, Sat 94). - M., 1974. S. 147-153.
• Urbanonymy of Gorky // Theory and practice of toponymic research. - M., 1975.S. 44-48.
• Reflection of economic activity in the toponymy of the Gorky region // Onomastics of the Volga region. 4. - Saransk, 1976.P. 269—271.
• Toponymic system of the city (on the example of the city of Gorky) // Russian onomastics. - Ryazan, 1977.S. 113-114.
• On the names of the Volga cities // Dialects and toponymy of the Volga region. - Cheboksary, 1978.
• Chuvash toponyms in the Arctic // Dialects and toponymy of the Volga region. Cheboksary, 1978.
• Toponymy and historical economic geography // Toponymy in the service of geography (Geography Issues, Sat 110). - M., 1979.P. 38-50.
• Mari toponymy of the Mari ASSR and the Gorky region // Dialects and toponymy of the Volga region. Vol. 8. - Cheboksary, 1980.S. 57-61.
• Buyan Island: Pushkin and geography. - Gorky: Volgo-Vyat. Prince Publishing House, 1987.239 s.

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