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  2. Names of Soviet origin - Wikipedia

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    Vilen "Willi" Tokarev was "octobered" with the name Vilen after V.I. Lenin [1] [2]. Given names of Soviet origin appeared in the early history of the Soviet Union, [3] coinciding with the period of intensive word formation, both being part of the so-called "revolutionary transformation of the society" with the corresponding fashion of neologisms and acronyms, [4] which Richard Stites ...

  3. List of places named after Vladimir Lenin - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of places which are named or renamed after Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known by his alias Lenin.Some or all of the locations in former Soviet republics and satellites were renamed (frequently reverting to pre-Soviet names) after the fall of the Soviet Union, while Russia and aligned countries (mainly Belarus) retained the names of the thousands of streets, avenues, squares ...

  4. List of renamed cities and towns in Russia - Wikipedia

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    more renamings happened during the whole history of the Soviet Union for political reasons; in 1945, German cities around Königsberg were made part of the Kaliningrad Oblast exclave, see list of cities and towns in East Prussia; soon after the reconquest of Southern Sakhalin in 1945, Japanese placenames were replaced with Russian ones.

  5. Eastern Slavic naming customs - Wikipedia

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    The lower page includes the lines: Фамилия ("Family name"), Имя ("Name") and Отчество ("Patronymic"). Eastern Slavic naming customs are the traditional way of identifying a person's family name, given name, and patronymic name in East Slavic cultures in Russia and some countries formerly part of the Russian Empire and the ...

  6. List of places named after Joseph Stalin - Wikipedia

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    It was given this name in the aftermath of Operation August Storm, the victorious large-scale Soviet campaign in Manchuria. Stalin Square (斯大林广场), Dalian, (1946–1993) This square was given its name for its Stalin statue, which has since been removed. Stalin Road, (斯大林路), Dalian; Stalin Park, (斯大林街), Harbin

  7. Nomenklatura - Wikipedia

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    Moscow Kremlin, where the highest of the elite Soviet nomenklatura lived. The nomenklatura (Russian: номенклату́ра, IPA: [nəmʲɪnklɐˈturə] ⓘ; from Latin: nomenclatura, system of names) were a category of people within the Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc countries who held various key administrative positions in the bureaucracy, running all spheres of those countries ...

  8. Official names of the Soviet Union - Wikipedia

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    The official names of the Soviet Union, officially known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, in the languages of the Soviet Republics (presented in the constitutional order) and other languages of the USSR, were as follows.

  9. Category:Cities and towns built in the Soviet Union - Wikipedia

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