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excerpted resource, interview transcript, legislative material, report
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Materials of the RFE/RL Research Institute, interviews, newspaper clippings, copies of decrees on renaming. Topics: renaming cities (Stavropol to Tolyatti, Stalingrad to Volgograd, Ordzhonikidze to Vladikavkaz, Gorkii to Nizhnii Novgorod, Gottwald [Gotwald] to Zmiev, Voroshilovgrad to Luhansk, Zagorsk to Sergiev Posad, Shevchenko to Aktau, cities in Georgia, Andropov to Rybinsk, Zhdanov to Mariupol, Kuibyshev to Samara, Kalinin to Tver, Ustinov to Izhevsk, Brezhnev to Naberezhnye Chelny, Regar to Tursun-Zade, villages in Moldavia [Moldova]), renaming of streets (in Moscow, Leningrad, Almaty, Vilnius), abolition of names of Soviet political figures in toponyms, All-Union conference on toponyms, conference "Historical Names-Cultural Monuments", Council on Toponyms of the Soviet Cultural Foundation, decision-making in renaming, support and rejection of renaming cities, rejection of Communist names (Oktiabrina, Chenaldina, Traktorina), readers' letters to various newspapers.