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[battersby.livejournal.com]

How would you write St. Petersburg, Novogorod, and London in Russian? Are there any good website that would help me with just translating cities/countries/etc?

And how would you conjugate "come" (like I come from Moscow)?

Thanks!

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[a-garvey.livejournal.com]

Санкт-Петербург, Новгород, Лондон

[shellesie.livejournal.com]

Санкт-Петербург (СПб, Петербург), Новгород (Нижний Новгород, Великий Новгород - these are two different cities!), Лондон.

[ex-ex-zhuzh.livejournal.com]

You omit the verb: "Я из Москвы".

[ta-kun.livejournal.com]

Санкт-Петербург (shortly - Питер)
Новгород
Лондон

[battersby.livejournal.com]

awesome! thanks!

[guzelle.livejournal.com]

Санкт-Петербург
Новгород
Лондон
For translation you can look at an online dictionary
http://lingvo.yandex.ru/en

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

Russian spelling is more or less phonetic. If you see the city's name being Novgorod, you cannot expect it to be Vladivostok in Russian :))) It's not English where you write Liverpool and say Manchester ;-)
One of the few exceptions is Moscow, because Moscow is not the city's Russian name, it's English, invented by British merchants in the 15th century - when one of the versions of the city's Russian name was Москов or Москова (thus German - Moskau, Lithuanian - Maskava, French - Moscou etc.) It only settled as Москва near Ivan the Terrible's times (16th century.)

thank you!

[storm-jack.livejournal.com]

I had wondered how the names were so different and where the English version came from.

[battersby.livejournal.com]

o_0

I didn't know that. A nice little history lesson!