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St. Petersburg's

Old Street Names

After World War I broke out in 1914, the city was renamed Petrograd, because the name sounded too Germanic and Russia was at war with Germany. A few street names were also changed at this time for the same reason. This was nothing compared to what happened after the Revolution of 1917, because the Bolsheviks changed hundreds of street names and public areas which had Imperialist associations, to names of Revolutionary heroes, political events, or names of respected celebrities from the arts world. Petrograd was renamed to Leningrad in 1924, shortly after the death of Lenin.

By the time of perestroika in the mid 1980s, several street names were reverting back to their original names and when Leningrad was renamed back to St. Petersburg after a popular vote at the end of 1991, a large batch of streets were also given the old names back. However, many of the Revolutionary street names remain and the original names have been consigned to rapidly fading memories.

The table below lists some of those old street names against the current name.

This is an ongoing project and further names will be added

Former name	Current name
1st to 12th Rota	1st to 12th Krasnoarmeiskaya Ulitsa
1st to 10th Rozhdestvenkaya Ulitsa	1st to 10th Sovetskaya Ulitsa ***
Ablina Ulitsa	ul. Pribrezhnaya
Aleksandrovsky Prospekt	Dobrolyubova Prospekt *******
Andreevskaya Ulitsa	Pervomaiskaya Ulitsa
Angliisky Prospekt	Parkhomenko Prospekt
Arhiereiskaya Ulitsa	L'va Tolstogo Ulitsa
Basseinaya (Basins) Ulitsa	Nekrasova Ulitsa
Blagoveschenskaya Ulitsa	Primorsky Prospekt
Bolshaya Belozerskaya ul.	Voskova Ulitsa
Bolshaya Dvorjanskaya ul.	Kujbysheva Ulitsa
Bolshaya Grebetskaya ul.	Pionerskaya Ulitsa (part A)
Bolshaya Koltovskaya ul.	Pionerskaya Ulitsa (part B)
Bolshaya Meschanskaya ul.	Kazanskaya Ulitsa
Bolshaya Obiezdnaya ul.	Orbeli Ulitsa
Bolshaya Spasskaya Ulitsa (Pet. Storona)	Krasnogo Kursanta
Bolshaya Spasskaya (Lesnoe)	Prospect Nepokorennyh ***
Bolshaya Vulfova	Chapaeva Ulitsa *******
Cherkovnaya Ulitsa	Blohina Ulitsa *******
Chubarov Pereulok	Transportny Pereulok
(Dementiev) Kosoy Pereulok	ul. Oruzheinika Fedorova
Demidov Pereulok	Grivkova Pereulok
Deminskaya Ulitsa	ul. Professora Kachalova
Dolgorukovsky Pereulok	Quarenghi per.
Ekaterininskaya Doroga (Prospekt)	Rimskogo-Korsakova Prospekt
Emperor Peter the Great Embankment	Petrovskaya Embankment
Ertelev Pereulok	Chekhova Ulitsa
Frantsuzskaya nab.	Kutuzovskaya nab.
Glazovskaya Ulitsa.	Konstantina Zaslonova ul.
Gogolya Ulitsa	Malaya Morskaya Ulitsa
Golovkinskaya Ulitsa.	Metallistov Prospekt
Gorstkina Ulitsa	Efimova Ulitsa
Gulyarnaya Ulitsa	ul. Lizy Chaikinoy
nab kanala Ekaterininsky	nab kanala Griboedova
Kabinetskaya ul.	ul. Pravdy
Kalashnikovskaya nab.	Sinopskaya nab.
Kurakina Ulitsa	Ordzhonikidze ul.
Lafonskaya Ulitsa	Proletarskoy Diktatury ul.
Leikhtenbergskaya Ulitsa	ul. Rosenstein
Leshtukov Pereulok	Dzhambula Pereulok
Litseiskaya Ulitsa	ul. Rentgena
Lyubashinsky Prospekt	Metallistov Prospekt
Malaya Belozerskaya	Kropotkina Ulitsa ***
Malaya Dvorjanskaya	Michurinskaya Ulitsa ***
Malaya Spasskaya Ulitsa (Lesnoe)	Karbysheva Ulitsa
Malaya Vulfova	Kotovskogo Ulitsa *******
Martynovskaya Ulitsa	Olgi Bergholz Ulitsa
Masterskaya Ulitsa	Lermontovsky Prospekt
Matveevskaya Ulitsa	Lenina Ulitsa (east) ***
Maximilianovsky Pereulok	Pirogova Pereulok
Mayakovskogo Ulitsa	Nadezhdinskaya Ulitsa
Morskaya Ulitsa	Bolshaya Morskaya Ulitsa
Moskovskaya Ulitsa	Krupskaya Ulitsa
Naberezhnaya Ulitsa	Primorsky Prospekt
ul. Nadezhdinskaya	Majakovskkogo ul
Nicolaevskaya nab.	Lejtenanta Smidta nab.
Nicolaievskaya ul.	ul. Marata *******
Nikolskaya Ulitsa	Glinki Ulitsa
Nizhegorodskaya Ulitsa	Lebedeva Ulitsa
Nobelskaya (and/or Nobelevskaya) Ulitsa	ul. Samoilovoy
Novoderevenskaya Naberezhnaya	Primorsky Prospekt
Novo-Mikhailovskaya Ulitsa	ul. Salova
Officerskaya (Ofitserskaya) Ulitsa	Dekabristov ul.
Panteleimonovskaya Ulitsa	Pestelya ul.
Pesochnaya Ulitsa	Professora Popova ul.
Peterburgskaya Ulitsa	Petrogradskaya ul.
Petrovskaya Ulitsa	ul. Ryabinovaya
Preobrazhenskaya ul.	Radischeva Ulitsa ***
Predtechinskaya ul.	Tchernaykhovskaya ul.
Progonny Pereulok	Progonnaya ul.
Rozhdestvensky Pereulok	Krasnoborsky Pereulok *******
Ruzhejnaya Ulitsa	Mira Ulitsa ***
Sampsonievskaya Emb.	Vyborgskaya Embankment
Sergiyevskaya Ulitsa	Chaikovskovo Ulitsa
Shirokaya Ulitsa	Lenina Ulitsa west) ***
Shlisselburgsky Prospekt	Prospect Obuhovskoi Oboroni
Simanskaya Ulitsa	ul. Shevchenko
Simbirskaya Ulitsa	Komsomola Ulitsa
Simeonovskaya Ulitsa	Belinskogo Ulitsa *******
Smirnova Prospekt	Lanskoe Shosse
Smolensky Pereulok	Ulitsa Olminskogo
Solovievsky Pereulok	Ulitsa Repina
Spasskaya Ulitsa	ul. Ryleeva
Sredinnaya Ulitsa	Prospekt Veteranov
Sutugina Ulitsa	ul. Perekopskaya
Teatralnaya Ulitsa	Ulitsa Zodchego Rossi
Topolnaya Ulitsa	ul. Savinoy
Troitskaya Ulitsa	Ulitsa Rubinsteina
Tsarskoselskaya Doroga	Pulkovskoe Shosse
Tserkovny Pereulok	Radischeva Pereulok
Utkina Ulitsa	ul. Respublikanskaya
Vezenbergskaya Ulitsa	Shkapina Ulitsa ***
Voskresenskaya nab.	Robespierre Embankment
Voskresenskaya Prospekt	Chernyshevskogo Prospekt
Vozdvizhenskaya Ulitsa	Tjushina Ulitsa ***
Voznessensky Pereulok	Krasnogradsky Pereulok ***
Yazykov Pereulok	Torzhkovskaya Ulitsa
Zabalkansky Prospekt	Moscovsky Prospekt
Zadnaya Ulitsa	ul. Sestroretskaya
Zadnaya Ulitsa	Shlisselburgsky Prospekt
Znamenskaya Ulitsa	Vosstaniya Ulitsa *******
Zolotonoshskaya Ulitsa	Professora Ivashentsova Ulitsa

Alexandrinskaya Ploschad	Ploschad Ostrovskogo
Blagoveshchenskaya Ploschad	Ploschad Truda
Ekaterininskaya Ploschad	Ploschad Rastrelli
Chernysheva (Chernyshevskaya) pl.	Ploschad Lomonosova
Chetyre Ruki	Ploschad Pobedy
Kalinkinskaya Ploschad	Ploschad Repina
Lafonskaya Ploschad	Ploschad Proletarskoy Diktatury
Narvskaya Ploschad	Ploschad Stachek
Pokrovskaya Ploschad	Ploschad Turgeneva
Rumyantsevskaya Ploschad	Ploschad Shevchenko
Vvedenskaya Ploschad	Ploschad Vitebskaya
Znamenskaya	Ploschad Vosstaniya

The names marked with *** have been nominated by the Toponymy Commission of SPb to have the original names gradually restored from the end of 2011

Nicolaievsky ulitsa now ul Marata

Residents Call on Governor To Restore Historical Street Names.
The St. Petersburg Times Published: November 30, 2011 (Issue # 1685)

About 1,500 city residents have appealed to St. Petersburg City Governor Georgy Poltavchenko requesting that a number of St. Petersburg streets and squares be given back the names they had before the 1917 Revolution, and that the names of streets named after those who took part in criminal activities be changed as well. "It would be better to call the streets even by numbers than by the names of classic bombers such as Khalturin, Perovskaya and Zhelyabov," said Daniil Petrov, vice president of the Historical Traditions Support Foundation. "Terrorists shouldn't be forgotten, but what they've done should be remembered only in textbooks. Streets should have different names." The group of city residents also asked for the names of streets named after Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, Russian revolutionists Pavel Dybenko, Nikolai Krylenko and notorious secret police chief Felix Dzerzhinsky and a number of others to be changed.

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St. Petersburg's

Old Street Names

Former name

Current name

1st to 12th Rota

1st to 12th Krasnoarmeiskaya Ulitsa

1st to 10th Rozhdestvenkaya Ulitsa

1st to 10th Sovetskaya Ulitsa ***

Ablina Ulitsa

ul. Pribrezhnaya

Aleksandrovsky Prospekt

Dobrolyubova Prospekt ***

Andreevskaya Ulitsa

Pervomaiskaya Ulitsa

Angliisky Prospekt

Parkhomenko Prospekt

Arhiereiskaya Ulitsa

L'va Tolstogo Ulitsa

Basseinaya (Basins) Ulitsa

Nekrasova Ulitsa

Blagoveschenskaya Ulitsa

Primorsky Prospekt

Bolshaya Belozerskaya ul.

Voskova Ulitsa

Bolshaya Dvorjanskaya ul.

Kujbysheva Ulitsa

Bolshaya Grebetskaya ul.

Pionerskaya Ulitsa (part A)

Bolshaya Koltovskaya ul.

Pionerskaya Ulitsa (part B)

Bolshaya Meschanskaya ul.

Kazanskaya Ulitsa

Bolshaya Obiezdnaya ul.

Orbeli Ulitsa

Bolshaya Spasskaya Ulitsa (Pet. Storona)

Krasnogo Kursanta

Bolshaya Spasskaya (Lesnoe)

Prospect Nepokorennyh ***

Bolshaya Vulfova

Chapaeva Ulitsa ***

Cherkovnaya Ulitsa

Blohina Ulitsa ***

Chubarov Pereulok

Transportny Pereulok

(Dementiev) Kosoy Pereulok

ul. Oruzheinika Fedorova

Demidov Pereulok

Grivkova Pereulok

Deminskaya Ulitsa

ul. Professora Kachalova

Dolgorukovsky Pereulok

Quarenghi per.

Ekaterininskaya Doroga (Prospekt)

Rimskogo-Korsakova Prospekt

Emperor Peter the Great Embankment

Petrovskaya Embankment

Ertelev Pereulok

Chekhova Ulitsa

Frantsuzskaya nab.

Kutuzovskaya nab.

Glazovskaya Ulitsa.

Konstantina Zaslonova ul.

Gogolya Ulitsa

Malaya Morskaya Ulitsa

Golovkinskaya Ulitsa.

Metallistov Prospekt

Gorstkina Ulitsa

Efimova Ulitsa

Gulyarnaya Ulitsa

ul. Lizy Chaikinoy

nab kanala Ekaterininsky

nab kanala Griboedova

Kabinetskaya ul.

ul. Pravdy

Kalashnikovskaya nab.

Sinopskaya nab.

Kurakina Ulitsa

Ordzhonikidze ul.

Lafonskaya Ulitsa

Proletarskoy Diktatury ul.

Dobrolyubova Prospekt *******

Chapaeva Ulitsa *******

Blohina Ulitsa *******

Kotovskogo Ulitsa *******

ul. Marata *******

Krasnoborsky Pereulok *******