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The name "Новая Иркутск" is wrong. "Иркутск" is a masculine name, and it does not agree in gender with its adjective "Новая" (feminine). Should be "Новый Иркутск".

And why the first sound in "Sonoma" is different from "Цонома"?

But such naming pattern is very unusual for Russian. Usually the administrative units have names according to such pattern: Place name adjective + Type of the unit (Иркутская губерния, Тверская область, Ачинскийй округ, Пермский край, Мценский уезд, Доробужская волость.) One-noun names usually are not used even in colloquial speech.

I would suggest the next name changes:

The word "область" is generally abbreviated to "обл."

— Hellerick 02:23, April 2, 2011 (UTC)