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In St. Petersburg there will be the area of the Strugatsky
In St. Petersburg there will be the area of the Strugatsky
© Oleg Gerasimio / Panoramio Moskovsky Prospekt at the intersection with Frunze StreetToday, December 24, the toponymic commission of St. Petersburg voted for assigning the name of the science fiction writers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky Nameless Square in the Moscow district of St. Petersburg.
According to RIA Novosti , the square is located at the intersection of Moskovsky Prospekt and Frunze Street.
“They lived and worked there, Boris Strugatsky went to work for many years towards the observatory. This place is saturated with the spirit of the Strugatsky, ”said Alexei Vladimirovich, a member of the toponymic commission.
The name of the Strugatsky brothers has already been assigned to Library No. 2 of the Moscow District, located on the Moscow highway.
Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg and author of the book Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. Double star ”Boris Vishnevsky reported earlier that the question of installing a memorial plaque to Boris Strugatsky on house No. 4 on Victory Street was also close to a positive decision. In addition, the governor of St. Petersburg Georgy Poltavchenko approved the idea of publishing the complete works of the Strugatsky brothers for school libraries.
Also, the toponymic commission of St. Petersburg recommended that the first streets of the created alluvial territories on Vasilievsky Island in honor of the writers Alexander Green and Vadim Shefner, and the Soviet streets in Kolpino to rename it into historical, Interfax reports.
In particular, Volodarsky Street will become Admiralteyskaya Street, Karl Marx Street - Preobrazhenskaya, Kommuna Street - Slavyanskaya, camp highway will be renamed Voznesenskoye, Lenin Avenue to Tsarskoye Selsky Prospekt, Labor Street will be called Trinity, and Uritsky Street will be Cathedral.