Thanks Maxim for this additional explanation.
Decrypting the German writings of Russian names is sometimes hard. Another example today:
Here is what I had from a German website:
Uffz. Josef Maier of 1./JG 52 was the first pilot of I./JG 52 killed on the East Front. His Bf 109 F-2 WNr. 5771 “White 11“ was shot down on 13 October 1941 in an air battle 6 km southwest of Kalinin and he was posted missing. His crashsite was later found at Monassejna, 8 km west of Latoshina, and his body was found and buried.
The Volksbund website confirmed the death place.
With three indications (6 km SW Kalinin / 8 km W Latoshina / Monassejna) I thought it would be a piece of cake.
But I could not find any place called Latoshina or Latochina, or Monassejna or Monasseyna or Monasejna...
There is several tens of Kalinin in Russia, but actually the city called then Kalinin is now called Tver, but I knew that before, so I avoided at least this trap.
Then I started to search places SW of Tver in my map and was about to give up when my eyes fell on a place called Lotoshino about 50 km south of Tver. I then went a little to the west and there was a place called Monaseino at around 8 km west of Lotoshino.
And to make things even more complicated. On maplandia site, you can find this place by searching "Monoseino" in the database, not Monaseino, but the map displayed then shows "Monaseino" as the place's name. Other sites will display it if you search Monaseino:
http://mapcarta.com/13396458
http://www.maplandia.com/russia/tver...yon/monoseino/
So case solved, but by sheer luck more than anything...