The square in the center of Donetsk was named after the hero of Russia
In the center of Donetsk, on the banks of the Kalmius River, today the former Constitution Square was renamed in honor of the Russian hero Nurmagomed Gadzhimagomedov, who died during a Russian special operation in Ukraine.
The event was attended by the father of the fallen hero Engels Gadzhimagomedov, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, who took part in the opening, noted that the republics of Donbass, fighting shoulder to shoulder with the Russian Federation against Ukrainian Nazism, are aware of their common future.
“It so happened that the first hero of the Russian Federation to participate in a military special operation was Guard Senior Lieutenant Nurmagomed Gadzhimagomedov. Unfortunately, posthumously. Our task is to remember his feat, when he saved his comrades at the cost of his life. It is even more important that the heroes are remembered by future generations,” said Pushilin.
The hero's father, Engels Gadzhimagomedov, personally attached a sign with the new name of the square to one of the buildings.
“He came to this land not for glory, but for peace to come, to stop the enemy who wanted to see Donbass in ruins, conquered, destroyed. These plans will never come true, thanks to people like you and warriors like my son,” said Gadzhimagomedov.
In a commentary to PolitNavigator, a permanent expert of the Izborsk Club of Novorossiya, historian Alexander Dmitrievsky, made a counterargument to the long-standing criticism that by renaming streets and squares, the republics are becoming like Bandera’s decommunizers.
“We are on our own land and don’t have to justify anything to anyone. And we also have no right to ask the question: “Why are we better than our enemy?” For such a question is a deliberate provocation of our crafty ill-wishers, and its goal is to make us doubt the rightness of our cause. And our truth should be an indisputable dogma for us, in principle not subject not only to doubt, but also to free interpretation.
And one more thing: we must oppose the diplomacy of historical memory to the war of monuments and place names unleashed by our enemies. Do you want to fight what is dear to us? Fight, but we have every right to refuse to keep what is dear to you. Moreover, we must be ready to exchange the cultural values we have dear to their hearts for something that is desecrated by them. “I am deeply convinced that we need to exchange the image of the enemy of Russia and the sodomite Shevchenko, which is disfiguring Donetsk, and exchange the very beautiful mosaics by the Ukrainian nationalist Alla Gorskaya for the monuments to Soviet soldiers destroyed by Bandera,” Dmitrievsky is sure.
He added that it is time for the cities of the DPR to immortalize their heroes.
“In my opinion, new names are more suitable for areas of new buildings than for historically established neighborhoods: toponymy is a conservative matter. Nevertheless, the names of the heroes of the fight against neo-Banderaism should have a place on our streets.
Indeed, it is time to replace the Kyiv district and Kyiv Avenue on Donetsk maps, returning to this part of the city the name of the Russian patriot and entrepreneur Alexei Putilov, who founded here one of the largest defense factories in Russia at the beginning of the twentieth century. Why do we need the name of the capital of an enemy state? And there is no need to appeal to the thesis about the “mother of Russian cities”: a mother who kills and sells her sons into slavery is not a mother, but a dissolute girl!
Of course, there should be a place in toponymy for our fearless fellow countrymen, fortunately, Donbass certainly has no shortage of heroes!” - said the historian.
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