Help with 1913 manifest for Russian village/city/town?

Question

From 1913 manifest! Russia town/village--Lobravino? Lobrahina? Sure about L-O-B-R-A, anyone recognize this? Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Could it be Lobnya?

Here's a list of Russian cities and towns:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cit...

Lobnya is the closest I could find...  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobnya

Answer 2

addendum -

I just spotted your additonal info.  Unfortunately, it is difficult for me to blow up the one page from the manifest as large as I would have liked..  Also, since I have no name or the first page, I can't find it on ancestry myself.

One reason for seeing the manifest itself is the ability to check out the handwriting.  I think it "may" be possible that the first letter for this town might be an "S" and not an "L", but I am not familiar w/ the few words beginning with this letter on the page you submitted.

If I could pull up the image and check out the other page, it might solve this, but .... who knows....

In any case, I did an additonal search for towns using an "S" in lieu of an "L". (I searched towns beginning with "Sobr") and found one possible.

Sobrino 56°08' 57°42'  Russia  775.6 miles E of Moskva (Moscow)

(original response below)

2 thoughts -

You are looking at the manifest and it would be helpful to have another pair of eyes see it, as well.

If you can give us the name of the passenger, we can look at the spelling ourselves and perhaps have a different take on it.

Also, a great resource is the 'Shtetl Seeker' at JewishGen, go to: http://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/Loc... (I think you can search w/o joining, but if not, subscribing is free.)

I searched towns beginning with "LOB" in both Russia and Ukraine.  The closest hit I saw was in Ukraine. Lobrina, which happens to have an alternate name listed after it..  This town is 132.4 miles SSE of Kiev.(see below)

Lobrina, Mar'yevka 48°42' 31°47' Ukraine  132.4 miles SSE of Kyyiv 50°26' 30°31'