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And other figures in the Soviet pantheon or nomenclatura were likewise immortalized: Samara became Kuibyshev; Ekaterinburg was renamed Sverdlov; Simbirsk was renamed Ulyanovsk , a derivative of Lenin's original surname; Nizhnii Novgorod was renamed Gorky; and so on across the map of Russia and to a lesser extent of the USSR.
Conversely when cities like Kuibyshev and Sverdlovsk or institutions like the Kirov Theater or streets like Gorky Street regained their original names, it was rather as if they had got back on track, as if they had been on a siding since, say, the tsar and his family were murdered at Ekaterinburg.