The city of Tsaritsyn and the street name derived from it - Tsaritsynskaya - is a legacy, which is quite logical and natural, from tsarist and imperial times. Modern Volgograd bore this name from 1589 to 1925 until it was renamed Stalingrad. But in which Russian cities are there streets with this name?
Volgograd and Volgograd region
Tsaritsynskaya Street is located in the former town of Tsaritsyn. In Volgograd (Angarsky microdistrict) its length is 1, 3 kilometers, and the maximum numbering of houses is up to 79th. The presence of just such a name in the city is quite logical, based on its original name. But everything is not so simple here, as historians continue to put forward a large number of hypotheses explaining this name. At first glance, Tsaritsyn or "the city of the queen" could get its name from the river of the same name flowing through it (and now near Volgograd). Other historians, making clarifications, argue that this name has nothing to do with the Russian female autocrats, since the "tsarina" is a Tatar princess who loved to walk along the banks of the then quite large and full-flowing river, where a very a romantic story that connected the princess with the Russian hero.
Another version, dating back to Ivan the Terrible, claims that the very "queen" was the wife of Ivan the Terrible, Anastasia, to whom the Russian tsar dedicated the construction of a small fortress in 1556.
But the most meticulous historians, who, nevertheless, largely share the opinions of the adherents of the first theory, put forward a third hypothesis about the Tatar or even Bulgar origin of the name of the city. They believe that the Russians simply remade the phrase "sary su" or "yellow water" in their own way. The thing is that the Tsaritsa River has long been known for its muddy yellow waters, as it collected rain streams along with clay and sand. As a confirmation of this particular version, historians suggest the name of the island near Volgograd - "Sary chan" or "Sarachan" or literally "Yellow Island".
In addition to the aforementioned Tsaritsynskaya street in Volgograd, there is also a street of the same name in the village of Yuzhny near the city of Volzhsky in the Volgograd region.
Other Tsaritsyn streets
There is one in the Leningrad region, in Peterhof. It is very small - only about 400 meters long with two houses. In house number two there is a cinema "Kaskad", a restaurant "Barsky corner" and a night club "Night City", and in the first - the Nikolaev polyclinic and its dental department, as well as a pharmacy.
Be that as it may, the Russians remembered the name "Tsaritsyn" quite recently after the initiative of the country's authorities to rename Volgograd to Stalingrad. Then a group of citizens took up the idea, but suggested returning to a more elegant and earlier name. Which of these proposals will win, as well as which version of historians will find more confirmation - only time will tell.
