Leninsky Avenue

Leninsky Avenue (Russian: Ленинский проспект, Leninsky prospekt) or Lenin Avenue (проспект Ленина, Prospekt Lenina) was a common name for major avenues in many cities of the former Soviet Union commemorating Vladimir Lenin. As of 2020^[update] there were about 20 Leninsky Avenues and over 100 Lenin Avenues in Russia.^[1]

Notable avenues include:

• In Russia
  • Leninsky Avenue, an avenue in Moscow
  • Leninsky Avenue [ru], an avenue in Saint Petersburg
  • Leninsky Avenue [ru], an avenue in Voronezh
  • Lenin Avenue [ru], an avenue in Vyborg
  • Lenin Avenue, an avenue in Yekaterinburg

• In Ukraine
  • Leninsky Avenue [uk], an avenue in Donetsk.
  • Lenin Avenue, Yevpatoria [uk], an avenue in Yevpatoria.
  • Lenin Avenue was the 1959−1990 name of the Liberty Avenue [uk] in Lviv.
  • Lenin Avenue was the 1960−2016 name of the Central Avenue [uk] in Mykolaiv.
  • Lenin Avenue was the 1952−2016 name of the Cathedral Avenue [uk] in Zaporizhzhia.

• In other countries
  • Lenin Avenue [ru], main avenue in Gomel
  • Leninsky Avenue was the 1961−1991 name of the Independence Avenue in Minsk.
  • Leninsky Avenue was the 1967−1997 name of the Abul Khair Khan Avenue [ru] in Aktobe.
  • Lenin Avenue was the Soviet-times name of the Dostyq Avenue in Almaty.
  • Lenin Avenue was the pre-1992 name of the Rudaki Avenue in Dushanbe.
  • Lenin Avenue was the Soviet-times name of the Mashtots Avenue in Yerevan.
  • Lenin Avenue was the Soviet-times name of the Gediminas Avenue in Vilnius.
  • Lenin Avenue was the Soviet-times name of the Stephen the Great Boulevard  [ro] in Chișinău.

Several train and metro stations are named Leninsky Avenue or Lenin Avenue:

• Leninsky Prospekt (Moscow Metro), a metro station in Moscow
• Leninsky Prospekt (Saint Petersburg Metro), a metro station in Saint Petersburg

See also

• Lenin Street, Novosibirsk
• Leninsky (disambiguation)
• Lenin Square (disambiguation)
• List of places named after Vladimir Lenin