Dzerzhinsk - Dserschinsk

Dzerzhinsk is the name of several places that honor the Russian revolutionary Feliks Dzierżyński:

  • Dzerzhinsk (Дзержи́нск), formerly Rastjapino, is close to the Russian one Nizhny Novgorod.
  • Dzerzhinsky (Дзержинский) is on the city limits of Moscow.
  • Djarshynsk (Дзяржынск) is the pronunciation in the Belarusian language. The locality is 40 km west of Minsk.
  • Dzerzhynsk in the Ukrainian Donbass region was renamed Torezk (Торецк) after the coup by right-wing extremists there in 2016. The small town is 50 km north of the oblast center Donetsk.