Gorod (toponymy)

Gorod (Cyrillic : город) is a version of the Slavic word meaning "town", "city" or "castle", and is related to the similar grad and horod .

It is preserved in the toponymy of numerous Slavic places:

• Bely Gorod
• Belgorod
• Gorodets (with -ets as the suffix of diminutiveness)
• Gorodishche (with -ishche as the suffix of augmentation)
• Ivangorod
• Kitai-gorod ^[1]
• Kitay-Gorod (Metro), cross-platform transfer point of the Moscow Metro
• Slavgorod
• Nizhny Novgorod
• Veliky Novgorod
• Zvenigorod

See also

• Gord (archaeology)

References

1. Zubacheva, Ksenia (2020-01-17). "Moscow has its own Chinatown, but it's not what you think". Russia Beyond. Retrieved 2025-07-27.

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