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# Do you know Furmanny Lane in Moscow?
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/znaete-furmannyi-pereulok-v-moskve/
- Published: 2020-03-30T13:01:14.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:42:53.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Moscow, Observations, Mores

Do you know Furmanny Lane in Moscow? The Helmholtz Institute of Eye Diseases stands there.

Well, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, *furmanshchiki* was the name given to catchers of stray dogs. The word most probably derives from *fura*, a cart or wagon, a *furmanshchik* being one who drives a *fura*.

The term came into use in connection with that clinging ailment of 1771, the plague. The *furmanshchiki*, who were also the *mortuses*, were those very men in black waxed cloaks and masks who dragged corpses about with hooks on long poles and gathered them into long carts.