Nashi reki, goroda i sela
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Niz︠h︡niĭ Novgorod
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Written in the form of a dictionary, the offered book narrates about the history of the origin of geographical names of the Nizhny Novgorod Region. Doctor of Philological Science, Nizhny Novgorod journalist N.V.Morokhin interprets old legends that explain the meaning of their origin, reconstructs meanings of the words basing on languages of the Volga peoples, cites adjectives and people's names recorded in folklore and derived from toponyms.