place
Chernopupsk
also: Чернопупск
An invented provincial town (from "chernyi pup," "black navel") -- a stock Chekhovian comic toponym for small-minded provincial officialdom.
Reading notes
- The Liberal Sweetheart §1 Chernopupsk
An invented provincial town name built from "chernyi pup" ("black navel"), a typical Chekhovian comic toponym signaling small-minded provincial society -- in the vein of his other fictional towns like Mordasov or Zavraisk.