Change the name of Sverdlov Square and the stop of the Red Avenue suggested the vice-speaker of the semblance of United Russia Andrei Panferov.
"We are categorically against any renaming, because we believe that it is impossible to do this. This is one of the largest figures of the October Revolution and the formation of Soviet power. Yakov Sverdlov was the chairman of the RSFSR, formally the head of the Socialist Republic. We have stopped at one time an attempt to rename Sverdlov's Square. I think that it is not necessary to re-enter the Society and Trouble, "the second secretary of the regional commissioner Renat Suleymanov said.
Earlier, one of the leaders of the Novosibirsk United Russia, Andrei Panferov, suggested changing the name of Sverdlov's Square and the same-name stop in honor of 800 years since the birth of the Canonized ROC of Prince Alexander Nevsky, whose name is the Orthodox church at the very beginning of the Red Avenue.
This is not the first initiative to rename the stop and Sverdlov Square. In March 2020, a survey was conducted with a proposal to rename the stopping of public transport "Sverdlov Square". The Ministry of Culture of the region and Novosibirsk philharmonium acted with the initiative of changing the stop name. They offered to call the stopping "Sverdlov Square" stop "Philharmonic. Concert Hall of Katsa. " In addition, Culture Churilov V. G. proposed another option to renaming the "Sverdlov Square" - "Square of the Kryachkov architect".
As a result, 57.57% voted for renaming the stop: 10.67% have given their voices for Kats, Kryachkova was supported by 39.9%. And against renaming was 41.8% of respondents. The rest found it difficult to answer.
Even earlier, at the beginning of 2016, a number of surveys were held in Novosibirsk about the need to renaming the streets and squares of the city. In particular, it was proposed to give the name of the architect Kryachkov Square named after the revolutionary figure, never happened in Novosibirsk, Yakova Sverdlov. In the voting on the site of the mayor's office, 8681 Internet users took part. 51.66% voted to rename Sverdlov's Square in the architect Kryachkova Square, against - 48.34%.
Against the name change then the mayor of Anatoly Elbow. Sverdlova Square has retained its name. However, soon most of the square began to officially be called Square architect Kryachkov, in which since 2008 there is a monument to the outstanding Novosibirsk. And from Sverdlov's area there was a small area before the buildings of the government of the region and the concert hall of them. Katsa. As well as the name of the stop. Buildings with the address "Sverdlov Square" in Novosibirsk is not.
Yakov Sverdlov is a professional revolutionary Bolshevik, a total of more than 12 years spent in references and prisons. Member of the Central Committee of the RSDDP (b) and RCP (b). Member of the editorial office of the newspaper "Pravda". One of the leaders of the October Revolution. As the Chairman of the Central Executive Committee and the member of the Organizing Bank of the Central Committee of the RCP (b) was one of the organizers of the discerning of the constituent assembly, squeaking, red terror. Died during the Spanish Influenza epidemic in March 1919.
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