Chukhloma (russian: Чу́хлома) is a

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and the

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Chukhlomsky District Chukhlomsky District (russian: Чу́хломский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #112-4-ZKO and municipalLaw #237-ZKO district (raion), one of the twenty-four in Kostroma Oblast, Russia. It is located in the north of the oblast. The are ...

Kostroma Oblast Kostroma Oblast (russian: Костромска́я о́бласть, ''Kostromskaya oblast'') is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Kostroma and its population as of the 2021 Census is 580,97 ...

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, located on

Lake Chukhloma Chukhloma Lake (russian: Чу́хломское озеро) is a freshwater lake in Kostroma Oblast in Russia. It is located at around {{coord, 58, 47, N, 42, 37, E, type:waterbody_region:RU, at an elevation of 148 meters above sea level. It ...

, from the railway node Galich and northeast of

Kostroma Kostroma ( rus, Кострома́, p=kəstrɐˈma) is a historic types of inhabited localities in Russia, city and the administrative center of Kostroma Oblast, Russia. A part of the Golden Ring of Russia, Golden Ring of Russian cities, it is lo ...

, the administrative center of the

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. Population:

History

It was first mentioned in chronicles in 1381, and was destroyed during the

Time of Troubles The Time of Troubles (russian: Смутное время, ), or Smuta (russian: Смута), was a period of political crisis during the Tsardom of Russia which began in 1598 with the death of Fyodor I (Fyodor Ivanovich, the last of the Rurik dy ...

. It was granted town status in 1778.

Etymology

From a substrate

Finno-Ugric language Finno-Ugric ( or ; ''Fenno-Ugric'') or Finno-Ugrian (''Fenno-Ugrian''), is a traditional grouping of all languages in the Uralic language family except the Samoyedic languages. Its formerly commonly accepted status as a subfamily of Uralic is ba ...

(cf. Proto-Uralic ''*ćukkз'' 'hill, peak', referring to the landscape around the town).

Max Vasmer Max Julius Friedrich Vasmer (; russian: Максимилиан Романович Фа́смер, translit=Maksimilian Romanovič Fásmer; 28 February 1886 – 30 November 1962) was a Russo-German linguist. He studied problems of etymology in I ...

supported the theory of relationship between the name of Chukhloma and the ethnonyms like '' Chud'' or ''

Chukhna Chukhna, Chukhnas, Chukhontsy (singular: Chukhonets (male), Chukhonka (female)) is an obsolete Russian term for some Finnic peoples: Finns, Estonians, Karelians, Ingrian Finns. It is thought to be a derivative from the ethnonym ''Chud''. The 1 ...

'', but it's viewed as

folk etymology Folk etymology (also known as popular etymology, analogical reformation, reanalysis, morphological reanalysis or etymological reinterpretation) is a change in a word or phrase resulting from the replacement of an unfamiliar form by a more famili ...

by Aleksandr Matveyev.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Chukhloma serves as the

.Law #133-a As an administrative division, it is incorporated within Chukhlomsky District as the

town of district significance Town of district significance is an administrative division of a district in a federal subject of Russia. It is equal in status to a selsoviet or an urban-type settlement of district significance, but is organized around a town (as opposed to a ...

of Chukhloma. As a municipal division, the town of district significance of Chukhloma is incorporated within Chukhlomsky Municipal District as Chukhloma Urban Settlement.Law #237-ZKO

Culture

Near the town there is a historical family estate of the

Lermontov Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov (; russian: Михаи́л Ю́рьевич Ле́рмонтов, p=mʲɪxɐˈil ˈjurʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ˈlʲɛrməntəf; – ) was a Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called "the poet of the Caucas ...

family.

References

Notes

Sources

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External links

Official website of Chukhloma

Chukhloma Business Directory
*''Small Towns of Russia''

{{Authority control Cities and towns in Kostroma Oblast Chukhlomskoy Uyezd