Talk:Moskva

Used in English to mean Moscow (city)?

I found a number of books translated from Russian where in titles Moskva is used as Moscow, e.g. "Moskva: Vysshaya Shkola (publisher)", "Moskva, 1985. Beazley", "Moskva, Sov. pisatel', 1973", "Moskva: Sovetskaya Nauka", "Moskva: Ministerstvo Prosveshchenija RSFSR", etc.

Publisher addresses also use "Moskva" where the addresses are transliterated, eg. "ulitsa" is used instead of "street".

This can be seen in Google books, need to filter out terms where Moskva means Moskva river and is a name for something else.

International airports use Moskva on display instead of Moscow. Is Moskva an alternative name for Moscow now?

Other quotes:

• However, for the next two months in Moskva the feeling never left her. (Elizabeth Lenci-Downs, I Heard My People Cry: One Family's Escape from Russia - 2003)

  ditto: It wasn't so easy in Moskva.

• There is strong resonance between the approach in Moskva City and that adopted by the Thatcher government in the early eighties ... (Willem Martin Jong, 2002, The theory and practice of institutional transplantation)
• Steller followed during the major part of the year 1738 from Moskva to Tomsk. (United Nations, United Nations Staff - 2003,

--Anatoli ^{(обсудить)} 02:56, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

Moskva sometimes is used for Moscow, in the same way that Paree is used for Paris. I’m not sure Moskva is actually English or if it’s just the use of a Russian pronunciation in an English text. In some places, it seems okay to use Moskva ... for example, as the title of a tourist guide to that city. In other cases, like "It wasn't so easy in Moskva", it seems kind of weird. I would say that Moscow and Moskva are not interchangeable, but the use of Moskva depends on the subject matter and the expected readership. —Stephen ^(Talk) 11:45, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, Stephen. I know it sounds weird but it's still interesting that the term is occasionally used in certain situations. --Anatoli ^{(обсудить)} 11:55, 28 April 2012 (UTC)