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Peter
I asked Shtepa if there was already an “intellectual book store” (like a phalanster) in Petrozavodsk. And he said that the Karelian tractor plant, whose workshops are located right in the city center on the site of the plant founded by Peter, was moved to the suburbs, and now - under the new owner - there will be a loft here: housing, shops, restaurants, etc. will be built. And the owner is ready to give one building for several years for art projects. Here it will be possible to create a bookstore.
Under the new governor - and he is a “Putinist from St. Petersburg” - it is proposed to name the embankment of Lake Onega “Petrovskaya”. There is also a monument to Peter on the embankment near the port. Shtepa rebels and says that this “branding through Peter” is banal and embodies the imperial spirit. Petrozavodsk is one of the most “Soviet” cities in terms of toponymy. Only Uritsky Street was renamed, the rest of the Soviet pantheon was preserved - Kirov, Lenin, Dzerzhinsky, etc. Shtepa proposes to rename the city from Petrozavodsk to Onegoborg (that was the name of the settlement that was located here according to maps of the 17th century).
“Industrialism” is ending before our eyes even for such a small (260 thousand inhabitants) city as Petrozavodsk. Instead of a tractor factory there will be a loft, Strelka, Gelman, etc. "Hipsters" will hang out on the foundations laid under Peter. And now he himself is no longer part of the pathetic state narrative, but only “a controversial element of territory branding”