Simferopol will sparkle with different colors when it regains its historical street names - historian
Franko Boulevard in the center of Simferopol needs to return its historical name - Sultan-Crimea-Girey Boulevard, which donated its lands to the city, called the “Sultan Meadow,” which now unites the block of the boulevard and neighboring streets.
Tour guide and local historian Ivan Kovalenko said this on air on Crimea 24, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“I think that there have been and will always be renamings, including streets named after Volodarsky, Vorovsky, even the same Franko, who had nothing to do with Crimea. Moreover, streets in honor of Ukrainian writers appeared in Simferopol after 1954, as a tribute to political fashion,” the local historian emphasized. But I am for competent renaming with the return of historical names, according to the decision of a collegial commission of experts in the history of the city.”
This year, by decision of the Simferopol City Council, Karl Marx Street was returned to its historical name Ekaterininskaya, and Shmidt Street - Potemkinskaya. The original names were previously given to the streets of Karl Liebknecht (Dolgorukovskaya), Rosa Luxemburg (Alexandro-Nevskaya). But the names of the organizer of the “Red Terror” Bell Kunn, the terrorist and regicide Andrei Zhelyabov and another regicide Pyotr Voikov are still immortalized in the Crimean capital.
“Bella Kuna Street can also be renamed Danilevsky Street. From the first year of the Faculty of Geography, we heard from our teachers about Danilevsky, and if such a proposal to rename the scientific library, then this is good, but Franko Boulevard needs to return its historical name. Until 1924, it was the Sultan-Crimea-Girey boulevard, who was a public figure, a historian, who gave the city the entire part of present-day Simferopol beyond Salgir, where the boulevard is now located.
We must remember people like Danilevsky, Krym-Girey, Kessler, and we must name streets in their honor,” Kovalenko urged. – In the history of the city there are Bolshevik heroes, such as the first chairman of the Simferopol Revolutionary Committee, Evgenia “Laura” Bagaturyants. This is the greatest woman who was against repression and bloodshed and saved the same Trenev, Sergeev-Tsensky, Shmelev, Voloshin from the “Red Terror”.
And then they saved her when Wrangel’s counterintelligence came here. Many residents of Simferopol do not even know who their streets are named after. And this is done simply by installing an information sign with a portrait and a short biography at the beginning of the street. And then Simferopol will sparkle with different colors.”
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