Talk:Nevsky Prospect

message: Hi Ghirlandajo! Thanks for the reply. As for the spelling, it should definitely be "Prospekt", not "Prospekt", as this is a transliteration of the Russian street name, not a translation. If you were to translate "Невский проспект", it should end up as "Neva Avenue", as that's what it means. The English word "prospect" has nothing to do with it. The Cyrillic to English/Latin transliteration systems may disagree regarding the transliteration of "Невский", because of different views regarding the letter combination "ий", but they all agree that "проспект" should be "prospekt", as they all equal the Cyrillic letter "к" with "k". The Cyrillic equivalent to the Latin "c" is "ц" in the Cyrillic-Latin transliteration tables (GOST 16876-71, ISO 9 and the United Nations), while the recognised Cyrillic-English transliteration tables (ALA-CL and BGN/PCGN) have no Cyrillic letter transliterated to "c" (the closest you get to a "c" is that they transliterate "ч" to "ch"). The only possible exception to this would be the English name of Gogol's short story takning place in the street, in his rather obscure collection of short stories that is called "Arabesques", if that indeed has been written "Nevsky Prospect" in all the editions and thus must be regarded as an established convention. However, I'm not so sure of that, as I immediately came across the "Prospekt" variant in The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol when I googled Gogol "Nevsky Prospekt".
The recognised transliteration systems can be found in Wikipedia under Romanization of Russian, and in addition the Wikipedia naming conventions policy has an agreed transliteration table of its own (a variant of BGN/PCGN), which can be found under Wikipedia:Transliteration of Russian into English. Best regards Thomas Blomberg 11:54, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There's certainly a number of different translations for the title of Gogol's story, but when googling "Arabesques Gogol Nevsky", Prospect appeared more common than Prospekt. And it's not just the word prospect; a final -ect is common in English words, and a final -ekt is only found a variant spelling of a word listed as obsolete, and provincial in the Dict.org dictionaries. An optimal, but extremely complex transliteration scheme would use the c instead of the k where correct for English spelling. A person transliterating would use the -ect spelling naturally.--Prosfilaes 18:32, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I would kindly suggest that you review the currently used transliteration system before you call for anything even more complicated :)—Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) 18:40, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
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message: All the talk of transliteration systems is irrelevent- the article title should be the most common name of the street in English.  That name is "Nevsky Prospekt", as Google confirms ("Prospect" is a close second, "Avenue" is nowhere). Mark1 19:02, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
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message: While Nevsky Avenue is acceptable as a translation of Невский проспект instead of a transliteration, I don't think "Neva Avenue" is. As far as I understand it, the street is named after Alexander Nevsky, not the river Neva, although I've seen a few websites claim that. Does anyone know for sure if it's Nevsky or Neva it has been named after? "Neva Avenue" gets 129 hits with Google, and several those come from this article (all those sites running copies of Wikipedia). "Nevsky Avenue" gets 915, and "Nevsky Prospekt" a whopping 71,000. Thomas Blomberg 23:52, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neva Avenue?? 

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message: I think something should be added to the article about the Bombings of the Nevsky prospekt, where Nazi bombings killed thousands of civilians in Leningrad.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Monkeynator03 (talk • contribs) 20:52, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bombings of the Nevsky prospekt.