List of places named after 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) after the fall of the Soviet Union, while Russia and aligned countries (mainly Belarus) retained the names of the thousands of streets, avenues, squares, regions, towns, and cities that were given Lenin's name as part of his cult of personality.

Cities, towns, settlements and districts

Former Soviet Union

Azerbaijan

*Ilyich (1924–1990) — Şərur, Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic
*Lenin, Leninkend, and Leninfeld — Çinarlı, Shamkir
*Leninabad — Kərimbəyli, Babek
*Leninabad — Yeni yol, Shamkir
*Leninabad — Sanqalan
*Leninabad — Təklə, Gobustan
*Leninavan — Həsənqaya, Tartar
*Leninkənd — Qarakeçdi
*Leninkend — Mustafabəyli
*Port-İliç — Lankaran Rayon, now called Liman
*Pamyat' Lenina — Balıqçılar

Armenia

*Leninakan (1924–1990) — Gyumri

Kazakhstan

*Leninsk (1958–1995) — Baikonur
*Leninogorsk (1941–2002) — Ridder

Kyrgyzstan

*Lenin (''Leninskoye'')
*Leninjol (1937–1991) — Masy
*Leninpol (?–2001) — Bakay-Ata

Moldova

* Lenin, Transnistria

Russia

*Leninaul, a town in Dagestan
*Leningori (1924?-1990) — Akhalgori/ Leningor (from 1990), South Ossetia
*Leningrad (1924–1991) — St. Petersburg
*Leningrad Oblast, a federal subject
*Leninkent, a town in Dagestan
* Leninogorsk, Republic of Tatarstan, founded in 1948
* Leninsk, a town in Volgograd Oblast
* Leninsk, an urban-type settlement in Chelyabinsk Oblast
*Leninsk (1918–1929) — Taldom, Moscow Oblast
* Leninsk-Kuznetsky, Kemerovo Oblast, known as Kolchugino before 1925
*Leninskaya Sloboda, a town in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
*Gorki Leninskiye, Moscow Oblast, known as Gorki before 1924
*Leninskoye, a town in Kirov Oblast
*Leninskoye, a town in Leninsky District in Jewish Autonomous Oblast
*Leninsky, a town in Leninsky District in Tula Oblast
*Leninsky, a town in Yakutia
*Novo-Lenino, a district in Irkutsk
*Ulyanovsk, Russia — known as Simbirsk before 1924
* Leninsky District in several federal subjects (disambiguation page)

Tajikistan

*Leninabad (1936–1992) — Khujand
*Leningrad or Leningradskiy — Muminabad

Ukraine

*Illichivsk (1952–2016) — Chornomorsk, Odessa Oblast
* Lenin Raion, Sevastopol

Uzbekistan

*Leninsk (?-?) — Asaka

Eastern Europe

Hungary

*Leninváros (1970–1991) — Tiszaújváros

Streets and squares

Almost every town in the Soviet Union had a street named after Lenin. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, some of streets and squares (primarily outside of Russia and Belarus) reverted to their former names or were given new ones. In Russia, there are still 5,000 streets named after Lenin. This concerns also the names of city districts. Listed below are some of the streets named after Lenin, with an emphasis on those outside of the former USSR or its Eastern Bloc.

On 15 May 2015 President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko signed a bill into law that started a six months period for the removal of communist monuments and the mandatory renaming of settlements and (the many) streets and squares with names related to the communist regime.Poroshenko signed the laws about decomunization
Ukrayinska Pravda. 15 May 2015Poroshenko signs laws on denouncing Communist, Nazi regimes
Interfax-Ukraine. 15 May 20Goodbye, Lenin: Ukraine moves to ban communist symbols
BBC News (14 April 2015) Places in Crimea, the Donetsk People's Republic, and Luhansk People's Republic were not practically affected by this law due to their occupation by Russia.

Former Soviet Union

Armenia

*Lenini hraparak (Lenin Square) – now Independence Square, Gyumri
*Lenini hraparak (Lenin Square), 1940–1990 – now Republic Square, Yerevan
*Lenini poghota (Lenin Avenue), 1924–1990 – now Mashtots Avenue, Yerevan

Azerbaijan

*Lenin meydanı (Lenin Square) – now Azadliq Square, Baku

Belarus

*Lieninski praspiekt (Lenin's Avenue), 1961–1991 – now Independence Avenue, Minsk
*Vulica Lienina (Lenin Street), Brest
*Vulica Lienina (Lenin Street), Grodno
*Vulica Lienina (Lenin Street), Minsk
*Plošča Lienina (Lenin Square), Brest
* Plošča Lienina (Lenin Square, metro station), Minsk
*Praspiekt Lienina (Lenin Avenue), Gomel
*Praspiekt Lienina (Lenin Avenue), Zhodzina

Estonia

*Lenini prospekt (Lenin Prospekt), 1950–1994 – now Joala tänav, Narva
*Lenini puiestee (Lenin Avenue), ?–1991 – now Pikk tänav, Pärnu
*Lenini puiestee (Lenin Avenue), 1950–1991 – now Rävala puiestee, Tallinn
*V. I. Lenini puiestee (V. I. Lenin Avenue) – now Viru puiestee, Sillamäe
*Lenini tänav (Lenin Street), 1951–1990 – now Uus tänav, Kuressaare
*Lenini tänav (Lenin Street), ?–1989 – now Kesktänav, Põltsamaa
*Lenini tänav (Lenin Street), ?–1994 – Tapa
*Lenini tänav (Lenin Street), ?–1989 – now Kesktänav and Riia tänav, Valga
*Lenini tänav (Lenin Street), ?–1990 – now Jüri tänav, Võru
*Lenini väljak (Lenin Square), ?–1991 – now Riiamäe plats, Tartu
*V. I. Lenini tänav (V. I. Lenin Street), ?–1992 – now Jaama tänav, Jõhvi

Georgia

*Leninis Moedani (Lenin Square) – now Freedom Square, Tbilisi

Kazakhstan

*Prospekt Lenina (Lenin Avenue), 1919–1995 – now Dostyq Avenue, Almaty
*Prospekt Lenina (Lenin Avenue), Karaganda

Latvia

*Ļeņina iela (Lenin Street), 1950–1991 – now Brīvības iela, Riga
*Ļeņina prospekts (Lenin Avenue), 1960–1990 – now Lielā iela, Jelgava

Lithuania

*Lenino aikšte (Lenin Square), 1952–1991 – now Lukiškės Square, Vilnius
*Lenino prospektas (Lenin Avenue), ?–1989 – now Vytauto prospektas, Kaunas
*Lenino prospektas (Lenin Avenue), 1961–1989 – now Gediminas Avenue, Vilnius

Moldova

*Strada Lenin (Lenin Street), 1944–1952 and Bulevardul Lenin (Lenin Boulevard), 1952–1990 – now Bulevardul Ștefan cel Mare și Sfînt, Chișinău
*Strada Lenin (Lenin Street), Comrat

Russia

*Leninskaya Ploshchad (Lenin Square) – now Paveletskaya Ploshchad, Moscow
*Ploshchad Lenina (Lenin Square), Arkhangelsk
*Ploshchad Lenina (Lenin Square), Nizhny Novgorod
*Ploshchad Lenina (Lenin Square), Novosibirsk
*Ploshchad Lenina (Lenin Square), Saint Petersburg
*Leninsky Prospekt (Lenin Avenue), Moscow
*Prospekt Lenina (Lenin Avenue), Elektrostal
*Prospekt Lenina (Lenin Avenue), Murmansk
*Prospekt Lenina (Lenin Avenue), Nizhny Novgorod
*Prospekt Lenina (Lenin Avenue), Volgograd
*Prospekt Lenina (Lenin Avenue), Yekaterinburg
*Lenina ulitsa (Lenin Street) – now Kremlinskaya Ulitsa, Kazan
*Lenina ulitsa (Lenin Street), Pechory
*Lenina ulitsa (Lenin Street), Saint Petersburg
*Leninskaya Ulitsa (Lenin Street), Samara
*Ulitsa Lenina (Lenin Street), Astrakhan
*Ulitsa Lenina (Lenin Street), Perm
* Ulitsa Lenina (Lenin Street), Novosibirsk

Tajikistan

*Prospekt Lenina (Lenin Avenue), 1961–1992 – now Rudaki Avenue, Dushanbe

Ukraine

* Ploshchad Lenina (Lenin Square), Donetsk
*Prospekt Lenina (Lenin Avenue), Alchevsk
*Prospekt Lenina (Lenin Avenue), 1959–1990 – now Svobody Prospekt, Lviv
*Prospekt Lenina (Lenin Avenue), 1960–2016 – now Prospekt Miru, Mariupol
*Prospekt Lenina (Lenin Avenue), 1960–2016 – now Tsentralnyi Prospekt, Mykolaiv
*Prospekt Lenina (Lenin Avenue), ?–2016 – now Sobornyi Prospekt, Oleksandriia
*Prospekt Lenina (Lenin Avenue), 1952–2016 – now Sobornyi Prospekt, Zaporizhia
*Vulytsya Lenina (Lenin Street) – now Vulytsya Yevheniya Kharchenka, Kyiv
*Vulytsya Lenina (Lenin Street), ?–1994 – now Vulytsya Rishelievska, Odessa

Uzbekistan

*V.I. Lenin nomidagi maydon (V.I. Lenin Square), 1956–1991 – now Mustaqillik Maydoni, Tashkent

Eastern Europe

Bulgaria

*Bulevard V.I. Lenin (Lenin Boulevard) – now Tsarigradsko shose, Sofia
*Ploshtad Lenin (Lenin Square) – now Ploshtad Sveta Nedelya, Sofia

Czechoslovakia

*Leninova ulice (Lenin Street) — now Evropská třída, Prague
*Leninova ulice (Lenin Street) — now Kounicova ul., Brno
*Leninova ulice (Lenin Street) — now Klišská ul., Ústí nad Labem
*Leninova ulice (Lenin Street) — now ul. Palackého, Plzeň
*Leninova ulice (Lenin Street) — now ul. E. Beneše, Písek
*Leninova ulice (Lenin Street) – now Nádražní, Krnov
*Leninovo nábrežie (Lenin riverbank) — now Nábrežie Jána Pavla II., Poprad
*Ulica V. I. Lenina (V. I. Lenin Street) — Šoporňa
*Leninova (Lenin (metro station)) – now Dejvická, Prague
*Leninova (Lenin Street) – now Hlavná ulica, Košice

Hungary

*Lenin körút (Lenin boulevard) – now Tisza Lajos körút, Szeged
*Lenin körút (Lenin boulevard) – now Erzsébet körút and Teréz körút, Budapest
*Lenin tér (Lenin square) – now Hatvani kapu tér, Eger

Poland

*Aleja Lenina (Lenin Avenue) – now Aleja Henryka, Chrzanów
*Aleja Lenina (Lenin Avenue) – now Aleja Jana Pawła II, Częstochowa
*Aleja Lenina (Lenin Avenue) – now Ulica Chorzowska, Świętochłowice
*Ulica Lenina (Lenin Street), 1949–1990 – now Ulica Jana Klemensa Branickiego, Białystok
*Ulica Lenina (Lenin Street) – now Ulica Andersa, Tychy
*Ulica Lenina (Lenin Street) – now Ulica Brata Alberta, Warsaw
*Aleja Włodzimierza Lenina (Vladimir Lenin Avenue), 1958–1991 – now Aleja Solidarności, Kraków
*Aleja Włodzimierza Lenina (Vladimir Lenin Avenue) – now Aleja Mieczysława Smorawińskiego and Aleja Generała Władysława Andersa, Lublin
*Ulica Włodzimierza Lenina (Vladimir Lenin Street) – now Ulica Henryka Le Ronda, Katowice
*Ulica Włodzimierza Lenina (Vladimir Lenin Street) – now Ulica Armii Krajowej, Kołobrzeg
*Ulica Włodzimierza Lenina (Vladimir Lenin Street) – now Ulica Stróżowska, Sanok

Romania

*Strada V.I. Lenin (V.I. Lenin Street) – now Strada Revoluției, Târgu Mureş
*Bulevardul Lenin (Lenin Boulevard) - now Bulevardul 21 Decembrie 1989, Cluj-Napoca
*Strada V.I. Lenin (V.I. Lenin Street) – now Strada Mihai Eminescu, Timișoara

Slovakia

*Leninová (Lenin Street), Veľké Úľany
*V.I. Lenina (V.I. Lenin Street), Šoporňa
*Leninová (Lenin Street), Bušince

Western Europe

France

*Avenue Lénine (Lenin Avenue), Achères, Yvelines, Achères, Yvelines
*Avenue Lénine (Lenin Avenue), Bègles
*Avenue Lénine (Lenin Avenue), Fontaine, Isère, Fontaine
*Avenue Lénine (Lenin Avenue), Gentilly, Val-de-Marne, Gentilly
*Avenue Lénine (Lenin Avenue), Gonfreville-l'Orcher
*Avenue Lénine (Lenin Avenue), Lanester
*Avenue Lénine (Lenin Avenue), Pierrefitte-sur-Seine
*Avenue Lénine (Lenin Avenue), Romainville
*Avenue Lénine (Lenin Avenue), Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, Saint-Denis
*Avenue Lénine (Lenin Avenue), Saint-Pierre-des-Corps
*Avenue Lénine (Lenin Avenue), Villejuif
*Avenue Vladimir Illitch Lénine (Lenin Avenue), Nanterre
*Avenue Vladimir Illitch Lenine (Vladimir Ilich Lenin Avenue), Arcueil
*Avenue Vladimir Illitch Oulianov Lénine (Lenin Avenue), Lorient
*Boulevard Lénine (Lenin Boulevard), Argenteuil
*Boulevard Lénine (Lenin Boulevard), Bobigny
*Boulevard Lénine (Lenin Boulevard), Eymoutiers
*Boulevard Lénine (Lenin Boulevard), Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray
*Boulevard Lénine (Lenin Boulevard), Tremblay-en-France
*Boulevard Lénine (Lenin Boulevard), Vénissieux
*Passerelle Lénine (Lenin footbridge), Bègles
*Passerelle Lénine (Lenin footbridge), Alès
*Place Lénine (Lenin Square), Bègles
*Place Lénine (Lenin Square), Bezons
*Place Lénine, Champigny-sur-Marne / France
*Place Lénine, Saint-Junien / France
*Rue Lénine (Lenin Street), Bagnolet
*Rue Lénine (Lenin Street), Blainville-sur-Orne
*Rue Lénine (Lenin Street), Fenain
*Rue Lénine (Lenin Street), Ivry-sur-Seine
*Rue Lénine (Lenin Street), L'Île-Saint-Denis
*Rue Lénine (Lenin Street), La Courneuve
*Rue Lénine (Lenin Street), Longueau
*Rue Lénine (Lenin Street), Montataire
*Rue Lénine (Lenin Street), Montigny-en-Gohelle
*Rue Lénine (Lenin Street), Nauroy
*Rue Lénine (Lenin Street), Neuf-Mesnil
*Rue Lénine (Lenin Street), Persan
*Rue Lénine (Lenin Street), Petite-Forêt
*Rue Lénine (Lenin Street), Portes-lès-Valence
*Rue Lénine (Lenin Street), Saint-Cyr-l'École
*Rue Lénine (Lenin Street), Saint-Martin-d'Hères
*Rue Lénine (Lenin Street), Somain, Nord, Somain
*Rue Lénine (Lenin Street), Thenon
*Rue Lénine (Lenin Street), Unieux
*Rue Lénine (Lenin Street), Vierzon
*Rue Lénine (Lenin Street), Viry-Châtillon
*Cité Lénine (Housing project), 68 av de la République, Aubervilliers, Seine-Saint-Denis, Paris

Finland

*Lenininpuisto (Lenin Park), Helsinki

Germany

*Leninallee (Lenin Avenue) – now Landsberger Allee, Berlin
*Leninallee (Lenin Avenue), Cottbus
*Leninallee (Lenin Avenue) – now Lindenallee, Eisenhüttenstadt
*Leninallee (Lenin Avenue) – now Am grünen Tal, Schwerin
*Leninallee (Lenin Avenue) – now Zeppelinstraße, Potsdam
*Leninallee (Lenin Avenue) – now Merseburger Straße, Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Halle
*Leninallee (Lenin Avenue) – now Talstraße, Meissen
*Leninallee (Lenin Avenue), Stendal
*Leninplatz (Lenin Square) – now Platz der Vereinten Nationen (United Nations Square), Berlin
*Leninplatz (Lenin Square) – now Wiener Platz (Vienna Square), Dresden
*Leninplatz (Lenin Square), Borne, Saxony-Anhalt
*Leninplatz (Lenin Square), Bützow
*Leninplatz (Lenin Square), Edderitz
*Leninplatz (Lenin Square), Ostrau (Petersberg), Ostrau (Petersberg, Saxony-Anhalt)
*Leninplatz (Lenin Square), Falkensee
*Leninplatz (Lenin Square), Könnern
*Leninstraße (Lenin Street) – now Prager Straße (Prague Street), Leipzig
*Leninstraße (Lenin Street), Weißenfels, Saxony-Anhalt
*Leninstraße (Lenin Street), Etgersleben
*Leninstraße (Lenin Street), Premnitz
*Leninstraße (Lenin Street), Saubach
*Leninstraße (Lenin Street), Teutschenthal
*Leninstraße (Lenin Street), Zschornewitz

Italy

*Via Lenin (Lenin Street), Bibbiano, Reggio Emilia
*Piazza Lenin (Lenin Square), Cavriago
*Piazza Lenin (Lenin Square), Scicli
*Via Lenin (Lenin Street), Capraia e Limite
*Via Lenin (Lenin Street), Castiglione del Lago
*Via Lenin (Lenin Street), Caorso, Piacenza
*Via Lenin (Lenin Street), Chiusi
*Via Lenin (Lenin Street), Castelvetro di Modena
*Via Lenin (Lenin Street), Carpi, Emilia-Romagna, Carpi
*Via Lenin (Lenin Street), Concordia sulla Secchia, Modena
*Via Lenin (Lenin Street), Cosenza
*Via Lenin (Lenin Street), Ferrara
*Via Lenin (Lenin Street), Garlasco, Pavia
*Via Lenin (Lenin Street), Lecce
*Via Lenin (Lenin Street), Lula, Sardinia, Lula
*Via Lenin (Lenin Street), Marsciano
*Via Lenin (Lenin Street), Mede, Lombardy, Mede, Pavia
*Via Lenin (Lenin Street), Melendugno, Lecce
*Via Lenin (Lenin Street), Modena
*Via Lenin (Lenin Street), Monticelli d'Ongina, Piacenza
*Via Lenin (Lenin Street), Misterbianco, Catania
*Via Lenin (Lenin Street), Monsummano Terme, Pistoia
*Via Lenin (Lenin Street), Panicale
*Via Lenin (Lenin Street), Paullo
*Via Lenin (Lenin Street), Pisa
*Via Lenin (Lenin Street), Quattro Castella, Reggio Emilia
*Via Lenin (Lenin Street), Rome
*Via Lenin (Lenin Street), San Giuliano Terme, Pisa
*Via Lenin (Lenin Street), San Polo d'Enza, Reggio Emilia
*Via Lenin (Lenin Street), San Stino di Livenza, Venezia
*Via Lenin (Lenin Street), Spoleto
*Via Lenin (Lenin Street), Zibido San Giacomo, Milan
*Viale Lenin (Lenin Avenue), Bologna
*Viale Lenin (Lenin Avenue), Castel Volturno
*Viale Lenin (Lenin Avenue), Genzano di Roma
*Viale Lenin (Lenin Avenue), Palma di Montechiaro
*Viale Lenin (Lenin Avenue), Suzzara

United Kingdom

*Lenin Terrace, Chopwell / England
*Lenin Terrace, Stanley, County Durham, Stanley / England
*Bevin Court, London, England, was originally intended be called Lenin Court. However, two letters of the building's sign were replaced to rename it after Ernest Bevin who died between its completion and inauguration. A bust of Lenin in the grounds was left in place, but was eventually removed after having been repeatedly vandalised by anti-communism, anti-communists.

Africa

Angola

*Avenida Lenin (Lenin Avenue), Luanda

Benin

*Place Lenin (Lenin Square), Cotonou

Mozambique

*Avenida Vladimir Lenine (Vladimir Lenin Avenue), Maputo

South Africa

*Lenin Street, Alberton, Gauteng, Alberton

Somalia

*Via Lenin (Lenin Street), Mogadishu

Tunisia

*Rue Lénine (Lenin Street), Tunis

Asia

India

*Lenin Sarani (Lenin Street), Kolkata
*Lenin Street, Kolkata
*Lenin Street, Erode
*Lenin Street, Pondicherry (city), Pondicherry, Puducherry (union territory), Puducherry
*Lenin Centre, Vijayawada, Andhara Pradesh
* Lenin Chowk, Muzaffarpur

Malaysia

*Lenin River, a river in the interior of Sarawak

Vietnam

*Lenin Park, Hanoi / Vietnam - now Reunification Park
*Lenin Flower Garden, Hanoi
*Suối Lenin (Lenin stream), Pắc Pó, Cao Bang

Places and parks

Eastern Europe

Azerbaijan

*Lenin rayonu (Lenin city district), Baku

Belarus

*Leninsky District, Belarus, Leninskiy rayon (Ленинский район ~ Lenin city district), Minsk

Czech Republic

*Závody V. I. Lenina (V. I. Lenin Works) – now Škoda Works, Škoda Plzeň, Plzeň
*Muzeum V. I. Lenina (V. I. Lenin Museum) – now Lidový dům ČSSD (People's House (Prague), People's House of Czech Social Democratic Party, ČSSD), Prague

Estonia

*Lenini rajoon (Lenin city district), Tallinn - later Lõunarajoon (Southern district), now restructured

Russia

*Leninskiye gory (Ленинские горы ~ Lenin Hills) – now reverted to their historic name Sparrow Hills (Воробьевы горы), Moscow / Russia
*Leninskiy rayon (Ленинский район ~ Lenin city district) in the following cities;
**Astrakhan
**Barnaul
**Cheboksary
**Chelyabinsk
**Grozny
** Irkutsk
**Ivanovo
**Izhevsk
**Kaluga
**Kemerovo
**Kirov, Russia, Kirov
**Komsomolsk-na-Amure
**Krasnoyarsk
**Magnitogorsk
**Makhachkala
**Murmansk
**Nizhniy Novgorod
**Nizhniy Tagil
** Novosibirsk
**Omsk
**Orenburg
**Orsk
**Penza
**Perm
**Rostov-na-Donu
** Samara
**Saransk
**Saratov
**Smolensk
**Stavropol
**Tambov
**Tomsk
**Tyumen
**Ufa
**Ulyanovsk
**Vladimir, Russia, Vladimir
**Vladivostok
**Voronezh
**Yaroslavl
**Yekaterinburg

Tajikistan

*Lenin Peak, – now Avicenna Peak

Romania

*Raionul Lenin (Lenin city district), Bucharest

Ukraine

*V.I. Lenin Memorial Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station (Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant), Pripyat, Ukraine, Pripyat

Central America/Caribbean

Cuba

*Parque Lenin, Havana / Cuba

Other

A large number of enterprises and other objects in the former Soviet Union and other countries of the Soviet bloc were named after Lenin: for example, the nuclear-powered icebreaker Lenin (nuclear icebreaker), Lenin and Lenin Stadium (disambiguation), Lenin Stadiums in many towns and cities. Additionally, every reasonably large settlement had a Lenin Street or Lenin Avenue ("Prospekt Lenina/Leninsky Prospekt"), or a Lenin Square.

See also

*Leninsky Avenue (disambiguation), Leninsky Prospekt
*List of places named after Joseph Stalin
*List of statues of Joseph Stalin
*List of statues of Vladimir Lenin
*Lenin's Mausoleum
*List of renamed cities and towns in Russia
*List of things named after Fidel Castro

References

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