the River Herota in the Adler district of Sochi will return its historical name — Horata.
according to “Interfax”, about it the public was informed in the press service of the city Assembly.
it is Noted that this step was taken based on numerous appeals of public figures and historians that in the ancient maps of the NINETEENTH century found that the real name of the river – Horata.
In particular, senior researcher of laboratory of ethnosocial problems of the Sochi research centre Russian Academy of Sciences Andrei Kizilov referred to the fact that the maps of the General staffs of the Caucasian war years 1817-1864, clearly read the name of the river “Horata”. The same writing and on the map of the Department of topography and statistics of the Ministry of defence of the United Kingdom for 1855.
According to the Sochi historian and regional ethnographer Vladimir Kostennikov, the name “Herota” was first mentioned in documents in 1901, when the area of Adler drained swamps.
local Historian said that the military topographers recorded the local name of the animal and the river, which Abkhazia was called as Huerta in old documents referred to and as Hirota and Huaroto, and Chorote.
“So historically correct name no. There is a tradition to which people are accustomed, which has more than 100 years called the river Herota,” said Kostennikov.
Herota (Hirota, Horota, Huaraca) — mountain river, located in the Adler district of Sochi and into the Black sea.
Earlier it was reported that the Sochi river was ranked as the most fun of the names of rivers in Russia – together with the suburban Veronicas and Minnows in the Ryazan region. Also in the top ten Dumpster Samara, Nizhny Novgorod Urine, river Avon in Novgorod, the Branch in Tver, Duhovke — in Tula, Sal in the Rostov region and the Sakhalin Mohlanka.
