😉 Greetings to everyone who wandered into this site! Dear reader, what street do you live on? Historical names of lanes, streets, avenues, squares can tell a lot about the past of your town, village, village or capital.
Few people, having lived their whole life in a certain place, do not ask themselves why they call their own lane or avenue in this way, and not otherwise.
What is a street?
This is an element of urban infrastructure. Usually there are two rows of buildings and the space between them for movement. They are classified according to their functional purpose:
- main;
- the main;
- inter-quarter;
- intra-quarter;
- residential;
- tram and pedestrian;
- pedestrian;
- Bike Lane.
How to say “street” in other languages:
- English – street;
- Swedish – gatan;
- Ukrainian – street;
- Belarusian – street;
- German – straße;
- Norwegian – gate;
- Finnish – katu;
- French – rue;
- Italian – strada;
- Spanish – calle;
- Romanian – stradă;
- Hungarian – ut;
- avenue is a wide street with trees on both sides. Usually in English and French speaking countries. In Russia, this is an alley and avenue.
The longest street in Russia is the Second Longitudinal Highway in Volgograd. Its total length is more than 50 km, it passes through the entire city and its length is equal to the length of the entire Volgograd.
Native street
The name cannot come out of nowhere. A simple and familiar word from childhood can store a whole history, layers of people’s lives, sometimes completely forgotten and unknown.
Taganrog. Once I asked a friend of mine:
– What street do you live on?
– On Lomakin.
– How long have you been living there?
– From birth, 18 years old …
– And who is Lomakin?
– I have no idea … some military man.
Friends, why is it sometimes not interesting for us to know in whose honor our streets on which we live are named?
Here we were born, from here we go to school, institute. We are getting married, raising children who also don’t think about the name of their native street. Here we will bring up our grandchildren.
And it will be a shame if you do not give an answer to the question of your grandchildren why your street or avenue is called that. There are no questions for those who live on Vishnevaya, Vinogradnaya, Sadovaya.
Let’s return to the question: who is Lomakin?
Anatoly Georgievich Lomakin
(1921-1944) – Hero of the Soviet Union (1944). Deputy squadron commander of the 21st Fighter Aviation Regiment (8th mine and torpedo aviation division. Air Force of the Red Banner Baltic Fleet), captain. Born in the city of Taganrog, he studied at school number 3, which in 1956 became school number 8.
On the fronts of the war in March 1942, he began his combat path as part of the 11th Fighter Aviation Regiment. Then he served in the 21st Fighter Aviation Regiment, and at the beginning of 1944 was appointed squadron commander.
By September 1943 he made 452 sorties. In 49 air battles he personally shot down 7 enemy aircraft as part of a group of 19. In total, the fighter pilot made 504 sorties, shot down 24 enemy aircraft. One of the streets of the city of Taganrog and the school in which the Hero studied are named after him.
Anatoly Georgievich Lomakin
He died a heroic death in an air battle on January 25, 1944. Tell me, does such a person deserve to be remembered?
What street do you live on? If you are at the computer, click on the button and ask the Internet a question about a person or a historical event, after which the avenue, lane, passage on which you live is named!
Lomakin Street in Taganrog was formerly called Myasnitskaya.
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