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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 ...
Lenin Avenue was the Soviet-times name of the Gediminas Avenue in Vilnius. Lenin Avenue was the Soviet-times name of the Stephen the Great Boulevard in Chișinău. Lenin Avenue was the 1952−2016 name of the Cathedral Avenue in Zaporizhzhia. Several train and metro stations are named Leninsky Avenue or Lenin Avenue:
Lenin Avenue (Russian: проспект Ленина) is a main street of Yekaterinburg, Russia. It starts at Moskovskaya Street to the west, and ends at Kirov Square to the east. The street is one of the busiest in Yekaterinburg and is a major shopping area. The street is named after Vladimir Lenin.
Other streets were renamed after Edward Rydz-Śmigły and Ignacy Mościcki, politicians of the pre-World War II Sanation government. In 2004, Plac Centralny, Nowa Huta's central square, which once was home to a giant statue of Lenin [18] – on display at the High Chaparral Museum in Hillerstorp, Sweden, was renamed Plac Centralny im.
The street, built in 1836, was initially known as St. George Avenue, Mickiewicz Street (Polish: ulica Mickiewicza), when Vilnius was under Polish rule (1922–1939). At the beginning of the Soviet occupation in 1940 it was called Stalin Avenue, later renamed Lenin Avenue. [3] The avenue carries its present name from 1939 to 1940 and since 1989.
According to his 2018 article for The Conversation, he reported that there are at least 955 streets named after King in the U.S. in 41 states, plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.
The median value of the more than 17,000 U.S. homes located on a Coolidge street is $176,330, the only presidential street with national median home values higher than the December 2013 national ...
Stalin Street, former name of a street in Tehran. The city named three streets after the three leaders – Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin – that met at the Tehran Conference of 1943. The names all disappeared after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. [9]