all Slavic: quotation marks used with the names of companies/organizations

[Gavril]

Recently, I reviewed a translation of a school diploma from Ukraine that began with the following text:

ВСП "Сумський фаховий коледж Національного університету харчових технологій”

which could literally be translated as something like:

SSU "Sumy Vocational College of the National University of Food Technologies"

[SSU = Separate Structural Unit; this may not be the best possible translation of "ВСП", but it's what the translator used in this case.]


I've noticed this kind of pattern in texts from many other Slavic and Baltic countries, where the name of a company or institution is enclosed in quotation marks (often preceded by an abbreviation indicating that it's a limited company, a state institution, etc.).

In what Slavic-speaking countries is this punctuation standard?

Does it apply to the name of any corporation or other organization?


Thanks for any info,
Gavril



PS:
Perhaps needless to say, this use of quotation marks looks unusual from an English-speaking perspective. In English-speaking countries, if you enclose the name of a company/institution in quotes, it suggests that you're not sure about the accuracy of the name, or even that you think the institution bearing the name is illegitimate.

 

[Panceltic]

Not a thing in Slovenia. I know in Bulgaria they do it even do it with streetnames, ул. ”Витоша” etc.

 

[Drakonica]

In Polish we often use quotation for a nickname part of company / organisation name etc, for example:
Firma Komputerowa „Klik”
Computer Company "Click"
In a title or on a signboard.

It is possible to use quotation for all name:
„Polska Firma Komputerowa”
"Polish Computer Company"
but it's a very rare practice.

I can imagine its use when the company name appears inside a sentence and quotation marks are used to clearly distinguish the company name.

 

[Gavril]

In Polish we often use quotation for a nickname part of company / organisation name etc, for example:
Firma Komputerowa „Klik”
Computer Company "Click"
In a title or on a signboard.

What do you mean by "nickname" here?

I would understand the nickname of a company to be an unofficial name used by people familiar with a company.

For example, McDonald's is not a nickname, it's the official trade name of the company.

An actual nickname for this company that you will sometimes hear people use is "Mickey D's".

 

[Drakonica]

What do you mean by "nickname" here?

Nikckname is probably not the best word here, but even in Polish I don't know the proper name for it. My point is that the names of companies and institutions often consist of two parts: a descriptive part and a distinctive(?) part.

Polish Shipbuilding Company "Posejdon"
Polish Shipbuilding Company "Neptun"

 

[Gavril]

Nikckname is probably not the best word here, but even in Polish I don't know the proper name for it. My point is that the names of companies and institutions often consist of two parts: a descriptive part and a distinctive(?) part.

OK, I see.

I think this speaks to a difference between the company-naming conventions of English-speaking countries versus those of Poland (and maybe also Ukraine, etc.). As far as I'm aware, the "descriptive-vs.-distinctive" system doesn't apply to the names of US companies.

Out of curiosity, were quotation marks used in the communist era as well (in the names of Polish state organizations/institutions/etc.), or has this practice emerged over the past 30 years?

 

[Drakonica]

@Gavril​

I found a ministerial regulation from 1983 and there is a long list of state-owned companies with names created according to this scheme:
Ustalenie listy przedsiębiorstw o podstawowym znaczeniu dla gospodarki narodowej. - Prawo.pl

1. Kopalnia Węgla Kamiennego "Jaworzno" w Jaworznie
2. Kopalnia Węgla Kamiennego "Komuna Paryska" w Jaworznie
3. Kopalnia Węgla Kamiennego "Siersza" w Trzebini
4. Kopalnia Węgla Kamiennego "Janina" w Libiążu
5. Kopalnia Węgla Kamiennego "Brzeszcze" w Brzeszczu
(...)

BTW:
A list of Ukrainian mines:
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