Course on Russian Cities - Bryansk

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Some comments ......

Bryansk should be of interest both to linguists and (amateur) military 
historians.

The cities course should include a brief mention of the etymology (or in 
some cases of competing theories thereof) of the name of the given city. 
The name Bryansk derives from earlier *d?brjan?sk- related to debri - 
thicket (pl. tantum); cf. Brjanskij les, mentioned by Elena Nikolaenko.

And for military history buffs, Vyazma-Bryansk was the site of a dramatic 
clash in early October 1941, on the way to the Wehrmacht's first major 
defeat outside Moscow..

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