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Originally Posted by RudiS
Does anyone know what village/city is written here? It looks like it's something like Steoira. It should be in the Novograd/Shitomir area.
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Hello Rudi,
I cannot make out much in that handwriting, but it reads more like "Snoinuv" to me. Both "Steoira" and "Snoinuv" cannot be recognised as names of any place in Ukraine, even allowing for German corruption of Slavic place names.
The big towns that you are referred to are Novohrad-Volyns'kyi (Ukrainian: Новогра́д-Воли́нський, Russian: Новогра́д-Волы́нский) and Zhytomyr (Жито́мир – same in Russian and Ukrainian).
There is a small vilage called Stoyaniv (Ukrainian: Стоя́нів, Russian: Стоя́нов), but it is far to the west of Novohrad and Zhytomyr.
I think we need a more accurate reading of the German handwriting. Do you want to have a second look?
Warm regards,
Paul