In the Ural capital, they continue to discuss the need to change the names of streets that bear the names of the bad memory of Soviet leaders associated with the persecution of faith and the destruction of dissenting citizens. As reported by 'Uralskiy Meridian', the Ural Church-Historical Society appealed to the mayor of the city with an open letter, in which, on the eve of the 300th anniversary of Yekaterinburg, it is proposed to return the historical names of a number of streets. In particular, the authors of the document specify that it is proposed to rename the street of the initiator of decossackization Sverdlov into Arsenyevsky Prospect; the street of one of the fathers of the red terror, Uritskiy - to the street of the Monk Martyr Elizabeth Feodorovna; the militant atheist Lunacharsky - to Vasnetsovskaya Street; the punisher Khokhryakov - to Tikhvinskaya Street; the head of the punitive detachment Malyshev - to Pokrovsky Prospect; one of the authors of the decision on the execution of the royal family of Voikov - in the street of the Holy New Martyrs; an active participant in the repression of Weiner - to Uspenskaya Street; involved in the murder of Emperor Nicholas II and his family Tolmachev - in Kolobovskaya Street. As the authors of the open letter clarify, this list is not final. Let us recall that earlier an initiative group of twenty Yekaterinburg residents had already approached the head of the capital of the Ural Federal District, Alexander Vysokinsky, with a proposal of this kind. That this idea has a lot of supporters evidenced by the ongoing debate on street renaming in urban media and local social media groups.
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