Originally, the plots of land given to the settlers carried only numbers, e.g. "Steppe 9". In the early years of the settlement, the "Fürsorgekomitee" began renaming the villages. These designations were reminders of the places of victorious battles against Napoleon such as Tarutino, Borodino, Beresina, Dennewitz, Arzis, Brienne, Paris, Leipzig, Katzbach and Teplitz, where the Triple Alliance was signed. Later, after 1842, the settlers began naming their own villages after their own aspirations – "Hoffnungstal" (hope valley), "Friedenstal" (peace valley) – or religious motives – "Gnadental" (grace valley), "Lichtental" (light valley). Numerous German establishments of village took on Romanian or Turkish-Tatar origins, such as "Albota" (white horse), "Basyrjamka" (salt hole) "Kurudschika" (drying), and "Sarata" (salty).