Thoughts on a Sevastopol war memorial

[fivemack]

[Poll #1177990]

Comments

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

I could find any of them on a map easily; just type the name of the town into the search bar, what's the problem?

[kaet.livejournal.com]

How should you have spelt Krepost Brest? Krepost Bresty? Krepost Brestj? They both look silly to me.

[simont]

I have heard of Minsk other than from Tom Lehrer

Yes, but only just: it's mentioned once in passing in Yes, Prime Minister. Furthermore, Novorossisk is a place I've only heard of from Tom Lehrer :-)

[martin-wisse.livejournal.com]

I did cheat a bit in interpreting "finding on a map" as "having a rough idea of where in the former USSR this town is located".

[redbird]

I'm good at reading maps and using indexes to atlases, so my answer to the second doesn't actually address already knowing where things are.

[sraun]

I had a passion for Solzhenitsyn (hey, the spellchecker thinks I spelled that right!) when I was in high school - I heard of a lot of Russian cities there.

[despotliz.livejournal.com]

Several of these places I know only because I had a book on the Soviet chemical and biological weapons programme and they were marked on the little map with a biohazard symbol.

[pizza.maircrosoft.com (from livejournal.com)]

We had a puzzle book called 'the chicken from Minsk'.

[naath.livejournal.com]

You should've spelled it St Petersburg.