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The London Vauxhall Gardens closed in 1859, but the Russian word for `railway station' has preserved their name.
In the last century the Russians, for reasons that no one now seems quite sure of, took the name of a London railway station, Vauxhall, and made it their generic word for all railroad stations: vagzal . In much the same way, the Japanese word for a fashionable cut suit, sebiro , is a corruption of Savile Row . More recently, the French borrowed the English slang words jerk and egghead but gave them largely contrary meanings--namely, an egghead in France is not a brainy person but a dimwit, while jerk is a term of praise for an accomplished dancer--though at least they respect the spellings.
What happened was this: Vauxhall Gardens were a famous London pleasure ground and “place of dalliance,” opened in 1660 (and known until 1785 as New Spring Gardens).
Bill Bryson's enjoyable “English Know-how, No Problem” (Spring 1991) states that the Russian word for railroad station vagzal comes from Vauxhall in London.
They were named for their location in Vauxhall, south of the Thames.