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The History of Penza Street Names and Interesting Related Facts

Where did the Penza River disappear to?

Penza, Penza Oblast, Russia

The embankment of the Penza River is one of the oldest streets in the city, known since 1819. It is located between the Bakuninsky and Lebedevsky (Kazan) bridges on the left bank of the Sura. It got its name because the Penza River used to flow within the city limits, flowing into the Sura River beyond the Bakuninsky Bridge.

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Antonov Street

Antonova St., Penza, Penza Oblast, Russia, 440000

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Antonov Street in Penza was named at the request of the management of the State Bearing Plant No. 24 in honor of one of the first organizers of the Komsomol in Penza, Konstantin Vladimirovich Antonov.

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Why Manchuria?

Strelbishchenskaya St., Penza, Penza Oblast, Russia

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There are three versions of the origin of the name of the Manchuria region. All of them are in one way or another related to the historical area in the northeast of modern China.

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Kizhevatova Street

Kizhevatova St., 10-21, Penza, Penza Region, Russia

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Kizhevatova Street was named in 1981 in honor of Andrey Mitrofanovich Kizhevatov, a participant in the defense of the Brest Fortress and a Hero of the Soviet Union.

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Alexey Vladimirovich Ukhtomsky

Ulitsa Ukhtomskogo, 68, Penza, Penza Oblast, Russia, 440039

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Since 1927, Bolshaya Romanovka Street in Penza has been named after Alexey Vladimirovich Ukhtomsky – a revolutionary, steam locomotive engineer, and active participant in the December armed uprising of 1905 in Moscow.

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Memorial plaque to G. V. Kutuzov

Kutuzova St., Penza, Penza Region, Russia, 440052

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Penza in Personalities

Georgy Vladimirovich Kutuzov – a native of Penza, a Bolshevik who heroically died defending Penza at the end of May 1918 during the White-Czech uprising.

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Nicholas I in the role of the inspector

79 Lermontovskaya St., Belinsky, Penza Region, Russia, 442250

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The small, remote town of Chembar in the vast expanses of the Penza province turned for two weeks into almost the capital of the Russian Empire. Here, by no fault of his own, the Russian Emperor Nicholas Pavlovich himself was stranded.

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