The meaning behind maps names

[alkyng 3,080]

  Hi hello guys, I'm just curious about many of the maps names.
I decided to pull a list for all of the maps names and trying to find the meaning behind it. Most of them maybe are just too obvious, but the others are somehow weirdo.
Honestly I inspired the idea from an old topic, but not in this forum.
Maybe not all of my conclusions are true, you can correct for me the wrong.

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Aleksandrovsk:

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A Russian city

Arena:

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Obviously from the name...

Atra:

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Tretinoin, is the acidic shape of vitamin A

Barda:

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A fictional character

Berlin:

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Germany Capital for anyone who have ever opened the map

Bobruisk:

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A Russian city

Boombox:

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Brest:

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I think it's a wrong spelling of Breast, obviously from the two buildings in the sides

Bridges:

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Camp:

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Don't know how its name appropriate for it, but..

Canyon:

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If you have ever opened your geography book. Canyon is a deep gorge, typically one with a river flowing through it.

Chernobyl:

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Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine..

Cologne:

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A Germany city

Combe:

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Castle Combe

Courage:

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Cross:

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I remember in my very first days in 2012 I saw a map who have a road in the battle list and I tried ages to find it again, I think it was this. Meaningless info btw..

Deathtrack:

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Deck-9:

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An American company for video game developments. this is what I found in Google. I thought It was a big thing like Intelligence agency room

Desert:

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Duality:

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Duel:

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Dusseldorf:

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Don't know how its name is compatible with the Tanki map

Edinburgh:

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Scotland's Capital..                  sorry it's my first time to know

Esplanade:

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My first time to know this word meaning in English.. "a long, open, level area, usually next to a river or large body of water, where people may walk"

Factory:

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Farm:

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Forest:

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No tree in this map

Fort Knox:

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"Fort Knox is a United States Army installation in Kentucky"

Future:

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Garder:

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"Garder is a parish and village in Vestby municipality, Akershus county, Norway." 

Gravity:

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Let's say ascending opposite of gravity ?

Gubakha:

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A Russian city..   this is the picture I found in Google

Highland:

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Highways:

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Hill:

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Industrial Zone:

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Iran:

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A Country in Middle-East

Island:

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Kolhoz:

"A Kolkhoz was a form of collective farm in the Soviet Union"

Kungur:

A Russian city

Lost Temple:

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Madness:

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Was a literal meaning of Madness especially in the old Moon Madness

Magadan:

A Russian city

Magistral:

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Massacre:

I think Arena is a better represent of Massacre than this map

Molotov:

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Monte Carlo:

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A Region in France

Noise:

It's a really noising with the Magnums in the red team (the upper)

Novel:

...

Opposition:

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Lastly a map who is a really represented by its name

Osa:

Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Parma:

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A City in Italy

Pass:

...

Ping-Pong:

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My first time to google it, isn't it Tennis?

Polygon:

A Random name for a map from the developers

Red Alert:

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Rift:

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Rio:

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A City in Brazil

Sandal:

What a picture you want me to put?

Sandbox:

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The default map for the games to do their tests

Scope:

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From the upper angle, it seems, yes

Serpuhov:

A Russian city

Short Bridge:

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Wow, it's a short bridge

Siege:

..

Silence:

Don't know how

 

Skylark:

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Skycrapers:

...

Solikamsk:

A Russian city

 

The rest of the maps are following the same pattern..    
Stadium:
Station:
Subway:
Tribute:
Valley:
Wave:
Wolfenstien:
Year 2042:
Zone:

 

 

Edited May 3, 2021 by asem.harbi
The topic is too long, adding the Spoiler again

[Spy 14,694]

That's cool, seems like you put a lot of effort into that. Maybe we can even add some of it to the Wiki.

[Jack2091 74]

A few extra details that I've noticed over the years:

Brest is the name of a city in Belarus. Its famous for numerous reasons, being the location of the signing of the Treaty of Brest -Litovsk which withdrew Russia from WW1 and also being the site of the defense of Brest fortress in WW2. I suppose the tall buildings on either side of the map are representations of the said fortress or even a metaphorical representation of the first major military confrontation between Germany and the USSR? 

Esplanade is also interesting in that the map is actually a partial recreation of Red Square, notably, Lenin's mausoleum and Stenatskaya Tower. I don't know if anyone has ever realised that whilst playing on that map but the resemblance is uncanny. Grimly, notice that a destroyed tank is located inside the Map's recreation of Lenin's Mausoleum.

Osa is also the Russian name for the SA-8 Gecko, a Soviet era mobile anti-air system still in use. I believe it translates to wasp in Russian as the missile system was suppose to 'sting' NATO fighter groups should they attack the USSR.

Serpuhov was one of the high-water marks of the German invasion of the USSR where Soviet armoured divisions (tanks) halted the German assault on Moscow as part of a general defensive operations in the winter of 1941-42. 

Edited May 2, 2021 by Jack2091

[Poppy 422]

1 hour ago, asem.harbi said:

Camp:

It's a very campy map

1 hour ago, asem.harbi said:

Atra:

I would have never guessed this, nice!

1 hour ago, asem.harbi said:

Magistral

Pretty sure it's another city or region name

1 hour ago, asem.harbi said:

Monte Carlo:

You let me down in this.

It's the Monte Carlo F1 track.

1 hour ago, asem.harbi said:

Polygon:

Polygon is a shape with many segments, just like old polygon was in tanki.

1 hour ago, asem.harbi said:

Scope:

sniper goes brr

[Maf 32,300]

Good topic, but you're a bit off on some things :) 

Corrections: 

• Barda is a town in Perm region, which is, as you may know, where the game devs are from.
• Camp used to have no bridge in the middle, so it was just two separate islands, which could only be played in TDM format with each team respawning on their own island. Hence everyone was "camping".
• Combe is named after a landform, much like Canyon. It's a synonym of "valley", which is what the map resembles.
  It definitely has nothing to do with the village, since the Russian name for the map (Овраг) is just a translation of the word.
• Esplanade is named after an area of the same name in Perm.
• Picture of Gubakha (not the most picturesque place haha)
• Massacre is probably named that way because of how open it is, so battles on it are, welll... a massacre. But yeah, Arena would also work.
• Monte Carlo isn't a region in France, but the capital of Monaco, which is an independent country. It's best known for its wealth, as well as hosting the most difficult Formula 1 track on its city streets. The fact that Monte Carlo in Tanki is a racetrack is a reference to that.
• Novel could mean either a book, or some new invention (novelty). Not sure what it has to do with the map name. Seems random.
• Osa is another city in Perm region. Osa is also "wasp" in Russian, but, interestingly enough, that's not what the hull is called. For the Wasp hull they instead opted to literally call it "Vasp" with Russian letters. Same goes for almost all other hulls. 
• Parma in context of Tanki refers not to the city in Italy, but to the old name for the city of Perm, where Tanki devs are situated.
• Polygon in Russian (Полигон) means a place to test weapons. A shooting range basically. So it's not so random, but the map doesn't really look like a shooting range.
• Scope implies "a large open area".

P.S. I like how you put in less and less effort into the descriptions as you went down the list, eventually basically ending it with "etc." once you got to Stadium

[wolverine848 13,097]

1 hour ago, Jack2091 said:

A few extra details that I've noticed over the years:

Brest is the name of a city in Belarus. Its famous for numerous reasons, being the location of the signing of the Treaty of Brest -Litovsk which withdrew Russia from WW1 and also being the site of the defense of Brest fortress in WW2. I suppose the tall buildings on either side of the map are representations of the said fortress or even a metaphorical representation of the first major military confrontation between Germany and the USSR? 

Esplanade is also interesting in that the map is actually a partial recreation of Red Square, notably, Lenin's mausoleum and Stenatskaya Tower. I don't know if anyone has ever realised that whilst playing on that map but the resemblance is uncanny. Grimly, notice that a destroyed tank is located inside the Map's recreation of Lenin's Mausoleum.

Osa is also the Russian name for the SA-8 Gecko, a Soviet era mobile anti-air system still in use. I believe it translates to wasp in Russian as the missile system was suppose to 'sting' NATO fighter groups should they attack the USSR.

Serpuhov was one of the high-water marks of the German invasion of the USSR where Soviet armoured divisions (tanks) halted the German assault on Moscow as part of a general defensive operations in the winter of 1941-42. 

Brest is also a French city and Military Port.  Also has a Castle.

An esplanade or promenade is a long, open, level area  which is well represented in the map.

[Poppy 422]

6 minutes ago, Adriel.RB said:

Without explanation

 

7 minutes ago, Adriel.RB said:

Sandbox

Google sandbox and you'll find the explanation

[Blutaar 1,904]

1 hour ago, Adriel.RB said:

Boombox

probably because when seen from above the middle part of the map resembles a boombox

[thunderhunter123 741]

Wow!

There were quite some posts from players, that had a lot of work put into them. Good work!

It's great to see how passionate you all are in wanting to learn and gain knowledge on the different Maps.

[alkyng 3,080]

On 5/2/2021 at 8:07 PM, beachhouse said:

You let me down in this.

It's the Monte Carlo F1 track.

Oh true, honestly I haven't put an effort to check my info before I write..   But it's my first time to realize it's a race track

 

On 5/2/2021 at 8:47 PM, Maf said:

Polygon in Russian (Полигон) means a place to test weapons.

Oh maybe, true. I thought about it just with the English name

But about the Scope, you don't know the scope? It's like the Shaft sniping mode or Cannon camera.. Which the map completely resembles it.

And lastly true I just got exhausted and busy to complete the topic so I said etc...   But honestly I opened it in Game Discussion so I was even think to not writing every map to open a chance for others.

On 5/2/2021 at 9:44 PM, Adriel.RB said:

made this list years ago

Nice list, but you really don't know which Sandbox means. I thought you a man of culture

 

Sorry guys for the late of response, but I haven't had a free time to read them all..

Oh also why you gave Maf 9 Likes while you left my original topic with only 4

[Maf 32,300]

2 hours ago, asem.harbi said:

But about the Scope, you don't know the scope? It's like the Shaft sniping mode or Cannon camera.. Which the map completely resembles it.

Same as with Combe, the Russian name for the map does not resemble the English meaning you suggested at all. "Простор" means "expanse" or "large open area".