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Does anyone know about “Voltafil”?

This is from a book by Japanese author Haruki Murakami entitled “Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World.” The English translation of course. It mentions a place in Ukraine “a tableland commonly known as the Voltafil”
My searching has lead me to believe that Voltafil is probably not real, but I don’t think Murakami just made up the word.
That’s because it is impossible to write “Voltafil” in Japanese. The letters simply don’t exist to write it out. The closest I could come to translating it would sound like “Botafuru” which doesn’t do the word justice. Hence Voltafil doesn’t seem like a name that a Japanese author would just make up.
If Murakami didn’t make up the word, then where did it come from?

PS: Please do not give me a link to the first web page you found after typing “Voltafil” into Google

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southern_comfort offline Verified User (7 years) Long Term User Shouts: 178 #
An Undisclosed Location | 4 years, 8 months ago (53 minutes after post)

“The horn was still intact. It was not in its entirety, to be sure, but what remained sufficed to enable the reconstruction of a straight horn of approximately twenty centimeters in length. The horn had been broken off close to the three-centimeter mark, its basal diameter approximately two centimeters…Professor Petrov–for that was his name–summoned several assistants and graduate students and the team departed for the Ukraine on a one month dig at the site of the young lieutenant’s trenches. Unfortunately, they failed to find any similar skull. They did, however, discover a number of curious facts about the region, a tableland commonly known as the Voltafil. The area rose to a moderate height and as such formed one of the few natural strategic vantage points over the rolling plains…what interested Professor Petrov about the Voltafil was that the bones unearthed there differed significantly from the distribution of species elsewhere in that belt of land. It prompted the professor to conjecture that the present tableland had in ancient times not been an outcropping at all, but a crater, the cradle for untold flora and fauna. In other words, a lost world. A plateau out of a crater might tax the imagination, but that is precisely what occurred. The walls of the crater were perilously steep, but over millions of years the walls crumbled due to an intractable geological shift, convexing the base into an ordinary hill. The unicorn, an evolutionary misfit, continued to live on this outcropping isolated from all predation. Natural springs abounded, the soil was fertile, conditions were idyllic…” Other than this being a work of fiction, I have no clue if this place really exists.

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jaf1999 offline Verified User (4 years, 8 months) Long Term User Shouts: 3 #
An Unknown Location | 4 years, 8 months ago (8 hours, 5 minutes after post)

yeah, that’s just a section from the book

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An Unknown Location | 4 years, 2 months ago (5 months, 1 week after post)

No, that was purely fiction

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An Unknown Location | 2 years, 4 months ago (2 years, 3 months after post)

you who havent been are too trusting, or untrusting. My grandfather was ukranian, and i visited him in the voltafil region numerous times. Its a pleasant landscape, with a rich earth. I read the book recently, but i visited many years ago. I dont know about untold flaura and fauna, its pretty much like the rest of ukraine. Plain and dark. Of course my grandfather never mentioned any unicorns, but he did have a deep connection with the land and landscape, as did the other locals. There is no way of seeing the hill or hills or hillocks from afar, so its hard to picture the geographical history. take a visit out there, ive been looking at plane tickets and theyre not badly priced. See for yourselves…

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An Unknown Location | 2 years, 4 months ago (2 years, 3 months after post)

ccc

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