“Ukrainian heroes.” Rename the street at the Russian Embassy, suggests the City Hall of Prague 6
Prague 6 plans to rename the part of Korunovační Street leading around the Russian Embassy to “Ukrainian Heroes”. The deputies decided on Monday, said Mayor Ondřej Kolář (TOP 09). City Hall wants to pay tribute to the people who are fighting the ongoing Russian invasion. Deputies are also asking to rename the nearby bridge in honor of the fallen soldier Vitaly Skakun. The Prague City Council is now deciding on the proposal.
“We have agreed to the request of the Prague City Hall to rename part of Korunovační Street along the Russian Embassy to Ukrainian Heroes and the bridge between Prague 6 and Prague 7 to Vitaly Skakun Bridge. Glory to Ukraine!” Mayor Kolář wrote on Twitter.
The mayor and deputy Kolář Aktuálně.cz later specified that he would send the request to the mayor of Prague, Zdeněk Hřib (Pirates), on Monday. “The renaming must be decided by the capital,” he said.
We also agreed to the request @PrahaEU to rename part of Korunovační Street along the Russian embassies to “Ukrainian Heroes” and the bridge between @ Praha6 AND @ praha7online to “Vitalije Skakuna Bridge”. Glory to Ukraine!
– Ondrej Kolar (@ OndrejKolar6) February 28, 2022
In order for Prague to be able to rename the street, it needs the approval of a topographical commission, which will assess whether this is possible from a technical, administrative or organizational point of view. Renaming could cause problems, for example, if people have a permanent residence and therefore have to arrange for a change of documents. There are several houses near the embassy, as well as the Embassy of Saudi Arabia.
The new named street should probably be directly connected to the road bridge over the railway line, which forms the border between Prague 6 and 7, and which the deputies would like to name after Vitaly Skakun – a Ukrainian soldier who sacrificed himself when launching the bridge and stopped the Russian attack on the city. Kherson. However, this proposal could run into the commission due to the fact that the bridges over the railway in Prague remain historically unnamed and several applications have not passed.
However, in the past, Prague changed the name of the place around the Russian embassy, when two years ago it had the adjacent square named after the assassinated opposition politician and critic of President Vladimir Putin, Boris Nemtsov. At that time, the topography commission approved it.