Antonov Street in Penza was named at the request of the management of State Bearing Plant No. 24 in honor of one of the first organizers of the Komsomol in Penza, Konstantin Vladimirovich Antonov (1900-1940).
Konstantin Antonov served as chairman of the Penza City Committee and secretary of the Penza Provincial Committee of the Russian Communist Youth League (RKSM), and was the first editor of the first youth newspaper in the Penza region, "Creators of the Future" (later "Young Leninist"). In 1922, the party sent Konstantin Antonov to the Far East, behind the lines of the White Guards and Japanese interventionists, for underground work. Later, K. V. Antonov studied international relations at Moscow University and became a diplomat. He worked in France and Belgium. He was accused of espionage and participation in a counter-revolutionary organization and was executed. He was rehabilitated in 1956.
