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Did you know that...


The word "banya" and its derivatives are often found in toponymy:

  • In Bulgaria there is the city of Banya, in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina there is the city of Banja Luka

  • In the Central District of St. Petersburg is Banniy pereulok, in Moscow - Banniy pereulok and Banniy proezd, in Volgograd region is the station Bannaya.

  • River Bannaya flows in the Republic of Altai, the same name of the river on the Kamchatka Peninsula.

  • In Bashkortostan and Anzer Island, there are lakes with the name Bannoe.

  • Bannoe is the old name of the city of Sviatogorsk in the Donetsk region.

  • There are in Russia more than a dozen villages, hamlets and towns with the name Bannoe.

  • Bannoe is a complex of archaeological monuments of the Stone Age in Bashkortostan.

  • Banniy bridge - bridge over Gvardeyskiy strait in Vyborg, bridge over Oka river in Oryol, bridge over Pryazhka river in St. Petersburg.

  • Bath Island - a village in the Smolensk region.
river on the Kamchatka Peninsula
Bashkortostan, lake with the name Bannoe.
Banniy bridge - bridge over Gvardeyskiy strait in Vyborg,