4.1.7. Natural objects (vegetation, hydrography, terrain)

Don't use abbreviations in “Official” names.

Exceptions are allowed if they are included in official documents regarding the naming or renaming of that map item. For example: imeni V.I. Lenin

If a point item from the terrain or hydrography category doesn't have a proper name, you can enter its type in the official name field if that will provide additional information about it.

For example, you can enter “water fountain” under the official name for a water pump item.

If a quarry doesn't have an official name but is locally referred to using the name of the closest locality or the type of work it was used for, then you can use that name as the official name.

These are only used to mark items of the following types: isolated terrain feature, cape, or peninsula.

Examples of setting an official name and a caption name:

Used for point items of the hydrography and terrain categories.

For example: the official name is Mount Elbrus and the caption on the map is Elbrus.

If the caption name uses a shortened form of the proper name (see 4.1.7.3. Abbreviations in names for captions on the map), then the name should include the item type to sound better.

For example: the official name is Yellowstone National Park and the caption name is Yellowstone Nat'l Park.

If such words are not used in the direct meaning or are part of the proper name, they are not abbreviated. For example: Bolshaya Neva, South Dakota, or East Coast.

Names in geographical names that include a first, last, and middle name are replaced with initials. Write the initials before the last name.

For example: imeni V.I. Lenin, imeni M.I. Kalinin.

Names in geographical names that include a first and last name are written out in full (rather than being replaced with initials).

For example: Donald Trump Plaza, The Winston Churchill School.

Exceptions are allowed if the abbreviations of the first name are included in official documents regarding the naming or renaming of that map item.

For example: imeni E. Pugacheva.

Put the geographic term (that determines the item's category) after the proper name:

• For example, Blagodat Mountain, Laptev Sea, Seliger Lake, Kamchatka Peninsula, Sadki Pond.
• This also applies to proper names made up of combinations of adjectives and nouns (for example, Novaya Sibir Island, Komsomolskaya Pravda Island, Kapskie Vorota Strait).
• It also applies to combinations of non-ordinal numbers and nouns (for example, Pyat Bratyev Mountain, Peter the Great Mountain Range).

If a Russian name is a combination of a geographic term (item type) with an adjective, the position of the term is determined by the following rules:

Names that merge Russian and foreign words or that merge the type of geographic item with the proper name (such as those that include boloto, gora, ozero, ostrov, reka, or ruchey) should be handled similarly to other geographic items: transliterate the proper name and translate the geographic type.

For example: Sebboloto Swamp, Shunboloto Swamp, Bugogora Mountain, Melgora Mountain, Yefimozero Lake, Lovozero Lake, Marostrov Island, Oncheostrov Island, Yelreka River, Kuzreka River, Pertruchey Stream.

If a local name consists of a geographic term and a full adjective, just follow the general rule and write the proper name and geographic type once (you don't need to repeat the latter): Olenye Lake, Sukhoe Lake, not Lake Olenye Lake or Lake Sukhoe Lake.