Thread: Favourite place in Moscow and St. Peterburg

Originally Posted by TATY

Originally Posted by Barmaley

Originally Posted by MikeM

Originally Posted by TATY

Maybe Политех - Polytech(nic).

That's right, it is short for Polytechnic Institute (or probably now a University).

Ah,ok...the lack of the "k" there threw me.

Easily thrown then. What else could an h in Russian be?

I didn't know that it was necessarily Russian. Foreign names/words are routinely used in Russia. There's a place called "Quo Vadis" there for Pete's sake.