Posted on 02/13/2021 6:00:04 PM PST by marshmallow
On Tuesday, February 9, His Eminence Metropolitan Eugene of Ekaterinburg headed the annual meeting of the Ekaterinburg branch of the World Russian People’s Council at the Royal Cultural and Educational Center, which discussed the issue of street names bearing the names of Bolsheviks.
The Council resolved to continue its informational and educational activities for the renaming of the region and the revival of historical names of streets that today bear the names of terrorists, including those involved in the murder of the Royal Family, reports the Ekaterinburg Diocese.
Public activists have raised the possibility of a system of street signs with both the modern and historical street names indicated, as is done in a number of Russian cities.
Renaming the province and various street and square names that honor atheist Bolsheviks and the murderers of the Royal Family has been a hot topic in Ekaterinburg for several years. In July, the Diocese spoke in favor of renaming Sverdlovsk Province, because the revolutionary Yakov Sverdlov, who is believed to have participated in the murder of Tsar Nicholas and his family, should not be a reference point for society.
In March 2019, Russian state deputies also proposed renaming it as the Romanov Province, in honor of the Holy Royal Martyrs. Representatives of the Orthodox community of Ekaterinburg have also been fighting for Khokhryakov Street, named after a Bolshevik revolutionary who was personally involved in the brutal murder of several clerics, to be renamed.
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Irony abounds as the Russians go the opposite direction from us.
That’s where Gary Powers was shot down in his U-2.
Maybe they could rename it in honor of Yakov Smirnoff.
Ekaterinburg (named after tsarina Ekaterina II, the Great) was re-named Sverdlovsk after communist revolutionary from 1921 till 1991. I guess the same name province did not change its name until now.
Communists had a habit of renaming everything for their heroes. There were like two thousand places named after Lenin e.g.
There are still many places named after the communists.
Out of the provincial capitals, there are still Kaliningrad, Kirov and Serov, all named after lesser communist apparatchiks. Smaller outlets abandon.
Time to fix that.
YES! This is awesome! And Ukraine has completed their removal of Lenin monuments and statues recently. :)
The fourth largest city in Russia, Yekaterinburg was renamed by the communists as Sverdlovsk, after a communist. But that name seems to have brought a curse down on the city.
Perhaps the worst of it was the Sverdlovsk anthrax leak.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sverdlovsk_anthrax_leak
aka “the biological weapons equivalent to Chernobyl.” The official death toll was only 100, but nobody believes it. What was remembered in one picture of the incident was garbage truck sized vehicles spraying heavy chlorine foam on buildings and trees in the city.
Which, given the incredible resiliency of anthrax spores would have only psychological effects.
They can be killed by autoclaving them in steam at 120C (250F) for 20 minutes. They are incredibly tough.
I could see Portland Oregon renaming their streets for Bolsheviks.
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