Orthodox Faithful of Ekaterinburg Call for Name of..Communist to be Removed from City Street

Pravoslavie ^ | 10/2/19

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Representatives of the Orthodox community of Ekaterinburg have been fighting for Khokhryakov Street, named after a Bolshevik revolutionary who was personally involved in the brutal murder of several clerics, to be renamed.

They initially called for and collected hundreds of signatures for it to be returned to its historical name of Tikhvin Street, though authorities refused because there is now another street in the city with that name, reports Russian Line.

“The name should not be identical or confusingly similar to the name of another object located on the territory of the same settlement,” the mayor’s office said.

The street was renamed by Bolsheviks in 1919 in honor of the sailor Pavel Danilovich Khokhryakov, who directed the punitive expedition of the Bolsheviks in Tobolsk and was involved in the murder of several clergymen, including His Grace Bishop Germogen of Tobolsk and Siberia.

He also took part in delivering the arrested Royal Family of Tsar Nicholas II from Tobolsk to Ekaterinburg, where they met their martyric end.

The Orthodox faithful are still pushing for the murderer’s name to be removed from the map of their city, even if the street can’t be returned to its historical name. It has also been suggested to rename it as “New Tikhvin Street.”

The Ural Church-Historical Society earlier petitioned the mayor to rename all streets of the city bearing the names of revolutionaries in honor of the 300th anniversary of the city. Leaflets were also recently hung around the city telling citizens about lives and personalities of the revolutionaries whose names were honored throughout their city.

Russian state deputies have also raised the issue of renaming the Sverdlovsk Province, of which Ekaterinburg is the administrative center, as it is currently named in honor of Yakov Sverdlov, who played an important role in planning.......

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Full headline: Orthodox faithful of Ekaterinburg call for name of bishop-killing communist to be removed from city street

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Barely makes a dent in reversing the re-Sovietization of historical memory Putin’s unleashed during his two plus decades in power.

Numerous streets must be renamed, statues of Lenin...or the actual body of Lenin at the mausoleum, and NKVD murderers removed...yet some of the latter have only been erected in recent years. Stalin busts and statues included. Textbooks glorifying Soviet murderers must be edited, more Gulag memorials erected, crimes of history such as Katyn massacre of Poland and Ukraine famine must be acknowledged by the state formally...list goes on.