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DURING THE LAST 50 YEARS, NO COUNTRY HAS changed and reorganized its internal territorial-administrative structure and boundaries with such frequency as has the U.S.S.R. In league with this has gone the alteration and replacement of the names of thousands of populated places of all sizes. Of the total of about 709,000 populated places in the U.S.S.R.2, probably as many as half have had their names changed (altered, replaced, coined, or abolished) by official action since the 1917 revolution3• In fact, an entire new genre of place-names, clearly distinguishable from prerevolutionary names, has been created in the Soviet Union. It is with the nature of these new-style Soviet place-names that this survey is concerned.
Charles B. Peterson (Tue,) studied this question.