Question by Maxwell: Do You think that the Russian Federation should have changed the cities names when the USSR broke up?
Like Gorki to Nizhny Novgorod Leningrad to St. Petersburg ect. I know they used to be called St. Petersburg but I think The USSR names were better.
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Answer by АРТУША
It’s hard to say. Younger kids who grew up/ are growing up in Russia use post Soviet names while grown ups and my relatives especially use the old names. Everyone understands both. The only problem with the USSR names is that constitutionally, fundamentally none of that exists anymore. Yes, it culturally exists yet it depends on what you want to emphasize.
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What do you think?
snowdrop says
Actually, many of those names were changed during the USSR time. So, now they are just changing them back as it used to be, as Peterburg, it was built by Peter1, so what was the point of changing it to Leningrad, or Ulyanovsk that used to be Simbirsk. i think it is better to have the original names that used to be before USSR, its our history
Dmitry says
I prefer the historical names.
To name cities and streets names of politicians bad idea.
Though there are also bad names. For example, Vagonoremontnaya (carriage-repair) street. terribly
Cossak says
Tzaritsin-Stalingrad-Volgograd…better have one name from birth dates of city,like mine.
rob says
well most of the soviet names were monuments to the leaders of the communist regime or the regime itself so… it dependes on you want to glorifyy their achievements good and bad.and it most certainly is a habitual thing to. i think changing the names back was a way to kind of remove more soviet influence and move in a diffrent direction.
Misanthropist says
I think historic names should be kept in general. However, St. Petersburg is a special case (at least to me it is), because it suffered the blockade under the name of Leningrad, so I think that changing the name kind of distances the city from a crucial part of its history. In most cases I prefer the pre-communist names, simply because they are more pleasant to the ear.