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‘Gayduck’ goes straight? Russian Railways faces invoice for signage change after Black Sea prepare station turns into butt of on-line jokes
A prepare station within the southern Russian village of Gayduck is to vary its identify, after an image of its bilingual platform signal went viral. Nonetheless, in line with railway directors, no complaints had been really submitted.
A suburb of the Black Sea port metropolis of Novorossiysk, Gayduck is called after Fedor Ivanovich Gayduk, the area’s first winegrower.
Good morning from the Krasnodar area, in southern Russia, the place the English translation of this prepare station signal is inflicting a lot amusement.
Гайдук is a suburb of Novorossiysk, an vital Black Sea port metropolis. pic.twitter.com/J2nSKSDU60
— Bryan MacDonald (@27khv) April 7, 2021
In English, the surname is generally transliterated as Hajduk, from the navy bandits and outlaws originating within the Balkans. Different variations in English embrace Gaiduk and Heyduk.
It’s unclear precisely which transliteration the brand new signal could have, however, because of the Russian alphabet, it would seemingly start with a ‘G.’
“There have been no complaints, however we should always in all probability change it, since it’s improper,” the press service of Russian Railways instructed newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda. “From the appears to be like of it, it has been like that for a very long time.”
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Regardless of no official appeals from residents, and no strategies of any ‘fowl’ play, the government-owned railway firm is about to foot the invoice for brand spanking new signage.
Lately, English transliterations have popped up at railway stations all through the nation. Gayduck is in the identical area because the 2014 Winter Olympics host metropolis, Sochi, which noticed many indicators up to date within the run-up to the occasion.
The Russian village is just not the primary place on this planet to vary its signage after going viral. Final yr, the Austrian village of Fucking determined to vary its identify to Fugging to dissuade the mass teams of vacationers who had been taking images with town’s signal.
