Soviet cities named after the people who did not cause the slightest surprise at our compatriot.All of us have long been accustomed to this tradition in the names of administrative areas and geographical features.We are quite familiar countless streets of Vladimir Lenin, boulevards and avenues Fyodor Dostoevsky, Vladimir Putin.The vast majority of cities of the USSR, named in honor of people, bear the names of prominent communist leaders of the early generations.However, the habit of giving similar names existed in Russian society and in the old days.Suffice it to recall the same Petrograd or LOTS.And before that there was Vladimir Monomakh founded by the prince, who gave his name.Some cities of the former USSR did not have the names of public figures and representatives of culture, which is also quite common and a good thing for the national memory.For some interesting examples of such settlements we look in the above text.
Soviet cities named after people: statesmen immortalized
Joseph Stalin
Perhaps the "leader of the people" in this sense, enjoyed the greatest popularity.List of cities in the USSR, which were at various times his name is not that it is impossible to calculate, but it is higher than a similar tribute to any other policies:
- Stalin Yuzivka until 1923, and in 1955 became the Donetsk.
- Staliniri and 1961 Tskhinval (city, located in Georgia).
- Stalinobad - modern capital of Tajikistan wore that name until it turned into Dushanbe.
- Stalingrad - the city has become an insurmountable obstacle for the armies of the Third Reich, of course, the most famous of this galaxy.
In addition, not only in the USSR, the city is named after its leader.There were those in the fraternal socialist republics.Thus, the largest Bulgarian port of Varna in a period was called - Stalin.Modern Poland Katowice Stalingrud had a name, and the Hungarian city of Dunaujvaros decade was Stalinvaroshem.
Makhachkala
Not everyone knows, but the Russian city is also named in honor of Communist revolutionary.The modern capital of Dagestan was named after a local party leader of the Revolution Makhach Dahadaeva.
Togliatti
But the name of the city is a kind of tribute to the response.He was named in honor of the Secretary General of the Italian Communist Party Palmiro Togliatti in the last year of his death.Until 1964, the town was called Stavropol-on-Volga.
Soviet cities named after people: the memory of the workers of culture
this list in their entirety also quite impressive.In Georgia, there are cities Mayakovsky, Rustaveli in Ukraine Ivano-Frankivsk and Khmelnitsky, Chekhov, Tchaikovsky and other Russian cities.
Karakol, Kyrgyzstan
Interestingly, and to which the list should be attributed a small Kirghiz town (with a population of just over sixty thousand), which bears from 1889 until 1922 and from 1939 until 1992, the name of the famous Russian traveler and naturalist, whosename, ironically, most famous for the horse, not the city?
