Hello,
> > > I know next to nothing about Russian; where does "aeroflot" come
> > > from?
> >
> > "Flot" is the word for "fleet". So "aeroflot" means "air
> fleet". That's my guess, at least.
It is, and I strongly suspect its direct source is Dutch.
[...]
> Soviet Russian has lots of such
> words. I like most of all "Hydropark" - that's a park in
> Kiev, at a beautiful island amidst of Dnieper river.
Also the name of a subway station ;-) though it's not exactly *sub*way
right there ;-)
Pavel
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