Names on the map of Moscow: the Ryadom project tells the stories of heroes of the Great Patriotic War

In Moscow, an educational project, Ryadom (Neighborhood), dedicated to the people in whose honor the streets of the capital were named, is currently being implemented It allows users to look at the city in a different way, and also helps to preserve historical memory and remind us that behind familiar names stand real destinies.

As part of the project, posters will be placed on 80 streets of Moscow. They will provide information about the participants of the Great Patriotic War whose names have been immortalized by the city’s toponyms. The information materials can be seen at public transport stops, press kiosks and on traditional billboards.

Each of the 80 streets is named after one of the heroes of the Great Patriotic War. Thus, on the Avenue of Marshal Zhukov have appeared billboards dedicated to Georgy Zhukov, a commander who played a key role in the war. It was he who signed the act of unconditional surrender of Germany and hosted the Victory Parade in Red Square on June 24, 1945.

Similar posters have already been placed on some other streets, for example, on Ulitsa Lyochitsy Tarasovoi, Ulitsa Pokryshkina and Ulitsa Artamonova, which are named after pilots.

The initiative is being carried out with the assistance of the capital’s Department of Media and Advertising together with the All-Russian public-state movement of children and young people Movement of the First.

Moscow remembers and honors the heroes of the Great Patriotic War. Almost every neighborhood has streets named after our parents and grandparents who fought the Nazis. 164 streets, avenues, squares and alleys of the capital bear the names of defenders of the Motherland. The city is a living memory of them. All these places can be easily found on the website of the Living Memory project.