Leninsky Avenue (russian: Ленинский проспект, ''Leninsky prospekt'') or Lenin Avenue (, ''Prospekt Lenina'') was a common name for major avenues in many cities of the former
Soviet Union
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commemorating
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov. ( 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known as Vladimir Lenin,. was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1 ...
. there were about 20 Leninsky Avenues and over 100 Lenin Avenues in Russia.
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Notable avenues include:
*In Russia
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** Leninsky Avenue, an avenue in Moscow
**, an avenue in Saint Petersburg
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**, an avenue in Voronezh
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**, an avenue in Vyborg
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** Lenin Avenue, an avenue in Yekaterinburg
*In other countries
**, main avenue in Gomel
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**, an avenue in Donetsk
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** Leninsky Avenue was the 1961−1991 name of the Independence Avenue in Minsk.
** Leninsky Avenue was the 1967−1997 name of the in Aktobe
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Aktobe is located in the west of K ...
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** Lenin Avenue was the Soviet-times name of the Dostyq Avenue
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History
The road was formed at the end of the 19 ...
in Almaty.
** Lenin Avenue was the pre-1992 name of the Rudaki Avenue
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in Dushanbe.
** Lenin Avenue was the 1959−1990 name of the in Lviv
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.
** Lenin Avenue was the 1960−2016 name of the in Mykolaiv
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** Lenin Avenue was the Soviet-times name of the Mashtots Avenue
Mashtots Avenue ( hy, Մաշտոցի Պողոտա ''Mashtots'i Poghota''), known as Lenin Avenue until 1990, is an avenue in the central Kentron district of Yerevan, Armenia.
The avenue starts with the Victory Bridge at the south and ends up wit ...
in Yerevan.
** Lenin Avenue was the Soviet-times name of the Gediminas Avenue in Vilnius.
** Lenin Avenue was the Soviet-times name of the in Chișinău.
** Lenin Avenue was the 1952−2016 name of the in Zaporizhzhia
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.
Several train and metro stations are named Leninsky Avenue or Lenin Avenue:
* Leninsky Prospekt (Moscow Metro), a metro station in Moscow
*Leninsky Prospekt (Saint Petersburg Metro)
Leninsky Prospekt (russian: Ле́нинский проспе́кт, en, Leninsky Avenue) is a station on the Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya Line of the Saint Petersburg Metro, located between Avtovo and Prospekt Veteranov.
The station was opened on 2 ...
, a metro station in Saint Petersburg
See also
*Lenin Street, Novosibirsk
Lenin Street (russian: Улица Ленина) is a street in Tsentralny and Zheleznodorozhny districts of Novosibirsk, Russia
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*Leninsky (disambiguation) Leninsky (masculine), Leninskaya (feminine), or Leninskoye (neuter) may refer to:
*Leninsky District (disambiguation), several districts in the countries of the former Soviet Union
*Leninsky Okrug (disambiguation), various divisions in Russia
*Lenin ...
* Lenin Square (disambiguation)
*List of places named after Vladimir Lenin
This is a list of places which are named or renamed after Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known by his alias Lenin. Some or all of the locations in former Soviet republics and satellites were renamed (frequently reverting to pre-Soviet names) aft ...
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