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Published: March 19th 2011
In a country containing 22%!o(MISSING)f the world's forest, where trees cover an area larger than the USA, one might imagine that nowhere could be that far from a patch of woodland. However, the name of the 40,000 strong town in Yaroslavsky Province where I spent last weekend translates as Pereslavl Beyond the Woods. I was interested to find out if it really merited the name by being any furth...
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Elena S.
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Hi Ed! Pereslavl Zalessky is a nice town. I've been there in Summer, though. Have you visited famous museums of irons and kettles? I just wanted to note that Pereslavl Zalessky was named this way not because people in XII century wanted to stress that the city is located beyond the woods. The thing is that the city was founded by emigrants from Pereslavly located in the south (now it is known as Pereslavl Khmelnitsky, Ukraine). Zalesie was a name of a territory north to the Kiev, which was capital that time. So, new settlers gave the city a name of their hometown, but to distinguish them, they gave it a second name.