Different cities of the USSR, named after people

Cities of the USSR, named after people, will not cause the slightest surprise of our compatriot. We have long been accustomed to such a tradition in the names of administrative territories and geographical objects. We are quite familiar with the countless streets of Vladimir Lenin, the boulevards of Fedor Dostoevsky and the avenues of Vladimir Putin. In the overwhelming majority of cases, the cities of the USSR, named after people, bear the names of prominent communist leaders of the first generations. At the same time, the habit of giving similar names existed in Russian society and in ancient times. Suffice it to recall the same Petrograd or Ekaterinoslav. And even earlier there was Vladimir, founded by Prince Monomakh, who gave him the name. Some cities of the former USSR bear names of not statesmen, but representatives of culture, which is also quite sensible and good for national memory business. We will take a look at some interesting examples of such settlements in the text.

Cities of the USSR named in honor of people: immortal statesmen

Joseph Stalin

Perhaps, the "leader of the peoples" in this sense enjoyed the greatest popularity. The list of cities of the USSR, which at different times carried its name is not that it is impossible to count, but it exceeds a similar tribute to any other politician:

• Stalin: until 1923 Yuzovka, and from 1955 became Donetsk.
• Stalin, and since 1961 Tskhinval (a city located in Georgia).
• Stalinobad - the modern capital of Tajikistan bore this name until it turned into Dushanbe.
• Stalingrad is a city that has become an insurmountable obstacle to the armies of the Third Reich, of course, the most famous of this galaxy.

In addition, not only in the USSR cities were named after its leader. There were such in the fraternal socialist republics. So, the large Bulgarian port of Varna at one time was called - Stalin. The modern Polish Katowice was named Stalingrad, and the Hungarian city of Dunaújváros for ten years was Stalinváros.

Makhachkala

Not everyone knows, but this Russian city is also named after the communist revolutionary. The modern capital of Dagestan bears the name of the local party leader of the times of the revolution, Mahach Dahadayev.

Tolyatti

But the name of this city is a kind of reciprocal tribute of respect. It was named after Palmiro Togliatti, the general secretary of the Italian Communist Party, in the year of his death. Until 1964, the city was called Stavropol-on-Volga.

Cities of the USSR named in honor of people: a memory of cultural figures

This list in its entirety is also quite impressive. In Georgia there are Mayakovsky, Rustaveli, in Ukraine Ivano-Frankivsk and Khmelnitsky, Chekhov, Tchaikovsky and other cities of Russia.

Przhevalsk, Kyrgyzstan

It is interesting, and to which list it would be worth to include a small Kyrgyz town (with a population of just over sixty thousand), bearing from 1889 to 1922 and from 1939 to 1992 the name of the famous Russian traveler and naturalist, whose name ironically glorified the horse, and Not a city?