Many researchers interpret the toponym Sobinka (Vladimir region). as a derivative of Sobinovaya pustosh or Sobinova pustosh. But if so, why is the city named Sobinka, and not Sobinovka).

According to the assumption of G. P. Smolitskaya (Russian speech. 1999. N 3), the name of the city is derived from a nickname (surname) Sobin, which is based on the word sobin, which is known in the dialects of Central Russia in different meanings": "a person with some individual, own feature" or "own belongings, property" , etc. Indeed, both the explanatory dictionary of V. I. Dahl and the etymological dictionary of M. Fasmer contain many meanings of the same root words: sob, sobina, sobinka, own, which are used in explaining the name of the city in various local lore publications. We also find the name of Sobin in S. B. Veselovsky's study of Old Russian names- "Onomastics". Obviously, this book is also familiar to the author of the historical story about the events of the end of the XV century, who called the hero Sobinka (Kulikov G. G. Pushkar Sobinka).

G. P. Smolitskaya's article about Sobinka ends with a short phrase: "The original name of the city was Sobinov's Wasteland." There is no way to agree with this. In 1939, the working village of Sobinka was transformed into a city. This point was never called a wasteland at all, already according to data from 1859, it is listed as a factory of the Sobinskaya Manufactory Partnership (List of populated places of the Russian Empire. Vladimir Province, St. Petersburg, 1863, vol. VI).

In the State Archive of the Vladimir region, many cases of the XVII-XIX centuries were revealed with the mention of the area of interest to us. The name of the wasteland in them is found in dozens of variants! But none of them have ever encountered the suffix-s. Where does this suffix come from

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did you use the name of the wasteland in the listed publications? It turns out that for the first time it appeared only in 1958 in a book published for the 100th anniversary of the factory, and from it it is replicated to the present day.

The name, consisting of several words, could not but change over such a long period of time, because it existed mainly in oral transmission, hence the many variants of naming the area. It should also be noted that the difference noted in the variants of the name is not as noticeable in oral speech as in writing. Sometimes two or three variants of the name appear side by side in the same document. Moreover, it was not possible to identify any regularity or priority in the use of options at different times.

Most often, the wasteland was called Sobina Luka Shovel also, especially in strict boundary documents. In petitions, witness statements and other documents of a more free form, the wasteland is referred to as: Sobennia Shovel identity, Sobennaya Luka, Sobennaya Luka Shovel identity, Sobina Luka, Sobinnaya Luka Shovel identity, Sobinskaya Luka Shovel identity. Once it was even found in the text of 1764: "on the specified part in the Lopatina Sacred Luka" (State Archive of the Vladimir region. Further-GAVO). Often cases involve two wastelands: Sobennaya and Shovel, Sobinnaya and Shovel, Sobina and Shovel, Luki Sobinnaya and Shovel, Luki Sobennaya and Shovel, Luki Sobina and Shovel. Although in one of the documents of 1847 it is indicated that the now disputed wastelands of Sobina Luka and Luka Lopata in 1799 were demarcated into one district area under the name of the wasteland of Sovina Luka Lopata also (ibid.), but even at a later time they were often considered two wastelands, and at an earlier time they were sometimes already listed in the list. one: "in Luka Sobennaya yes in Luka Shovel which Bows now consist in the wasteland Sobinnaya Luka Shovel also" (1763 GAVO).

The case of the collegiate assessor Vasily Fyodorovich Alyabyev (a distant relative of the famous composer A. A. Alyabyev) with the chamberlain Count Alexander Nikolaevich Zubov (the eldest grandson of Generalissimo A.V. Suvorov, the son of "Suvorochka") about the wasteland of Sobina Luka Lopata also, which lasted from March 23, 1836 to February 25, 1846, was a weighty volume of 472 sheets (GAVO). It allowed us to better understand the history of the places where the city of Sobinka is now located.

In the scribal Vladimir books of 1636, 1647, 1653, and 1665, the name Sobin or something similar is not yet found. The cases include the large Kononov wasteland, located on the border of the Klekovsky and Ilmekhotsky camps of the Vladimir district. In 1636 and 1647, it is listed in the estate "for volodimerets Ivan Ilyin's son Parsky". In 1665, after the death of Ivan Parsky, a quarter of the Kononova wasteland was separated to his son-in-law "Savva Ivanov son of Podolsk-

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I'm going to the estate with all the land, and the initial three lots are given to Afonas, Dmitry and the widow Tatiana Nikiforova, the wife of Parskim."

In March 1675, Savva Podolsky was additionally awarded for his service "from empty lands (unpopulated state lands) in the Volodimersk district near the Kononova wasteland in Luka, 12 quarters of forest of ramen roslago in length for 6 versts, and 3 versts across, hay mowing along the river along the Klyazma 50 kopen...".

This is probably the first time a new name is mentioned in a written source, and in two versions at once. As a confirmation of this, in an extract from the documents of 1691-93, when there was a dispute about this land between the heirs of Savva Podolsky (the widow Nastasya with her children and stepsons) and Vasily Elbuzin, to whom part of the Parsky possessions passed, we meet " meadows that in scribal books are written to the Kononova wasteland on the Klyazma River, and under a new nickname Luka Sobinnaya" (GAVO). When you repeat this document, it says "Luka Sobennaya "(Ibid.).

Over the next century and a half, the Sobin Luka Lopata wasteland was also repeatedly divided into plots that were inherited or sold. Among the owners of the wasteland were the names of Golovins, Golitsyns, Suvorovs, Zubovs, most often it was considered a latrine wasteland belonging to the famous village of Undolu.

Among the affairs of the Provincial Land Survey Office, there was a "Plan for the first part of the wastelands of Sobina Bows and Shovels owned by the peasants of the village of Kadyev and the village of Litovkina" (GAVO), compiled during the General Land Survey in 1770 and verified in 1855. To the west and north of this property is indicated "the land of the second part of the wasteland of Sobin's Bows and Shovels owned by the Vladimirsky 1st guild of the merchant's son and honorary citizen Alexander Andreev Nikitin". This name of the representative of the merchant dynasty, which came from the peasants of the ancient village of Cherkutino, is widely known to Vladimir local historians. We also meet him in the following file, which was kept in the chancellery of the provincial government (ibid.).

The case was initiated on May 26, 1858, when the Vladimir governor, full state Councilor E. S. Tilicheev, received a petition in which A. A. Nikitin, informing about the establishment of a Partnership with his brothers L. and M. Losev and G. Mindovsky under the name of the Sobinsky Paper Products Manufactory, asked for permission to "start erecting buildings for the Manufactory in the Vladimir Uyezd under the auspices of the the Klyazma River in the Sobinskaya wasteland, owned by Nikitin and ceded to the established Partnership." It is interesting that in the minutes of the meeting of the provincial government on June 18, 1858, at which (after a corresponding "inquiry" and finding out that there are no obstacles), the issue of a construction permit was decided.-

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For example, it was originally written "in the wasteland of Sobinskaya", and then corrected to "Sobina".

With the light hand of A. A. Nikitin, who used in the name of the manufactory one of the most beautiful variants of the name of the wasteland (although not the most common), the settlement at the enterprise began to be called Sobinka.

In my opinion, the original name of the wasteland still comes not from the name or nickname Sobin, and not from the words sob, proper, but from the words special, special (meaning "separate"). In the vernacular pronunciation of the word special is very close to sobennyj, sobinny, sobinsky. Among the many variants of the name of the wasteland at various times, there were also those confirming my version. Already in 1675, the hay mowing given to S. Podolsky to the Kononova wasteland was named special. In the document of 1761, it is found "in the wastelands of Kononov, Korobeyka, in the Bow of the Special Shovel also, in the Cow swamp and in the Forest..." (GAVO).

In the Patrimonial College on October 30, 1780, they listened to a certificate "on the Volodimersk district about the wastelands of Lopata Osobina Luka, the possession of the girls Countesses Natalia and Katerina Alexandrov, the daughters of the Golovins with other owners... "(Ibid.).

Lakinsk, Vladimir region

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