The Russian word can be broken into three sections. The first part is a prefix associated with a transition. The middle means movement and the bit at the end me

The Russian word can be broken into three sections. The first part is a prefix associated with a transition. The middle means movement and the bit at the end means a person that does that. So even though the group of artists with that name were translated as "the wanderers" or "the itinerants", the word literally means people who move around.