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Cities Renamed by the Soviets

The Soviets renamed hundreds of cities during their 70-year rule. Name the Soviet name of largest 25 cities in the former Soviet Union which had its name changed by the Soviet government.
Some city names were changed multiple times during Soviet rule, and some of these names lasted only a few years.
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Pre-Soviet Name
Named After
Soviet Name
Petrograd
The First Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union
Leningrad
Verny
Nearby Medieval Settlement
Alma-Ata
Novonikolayevsk
Siberia
Novosibirsk
Yekaterinburg
The Second Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the All-Russian Congress of Soviets
Sverdlovsk
Akmolinsk
The Virgin Lands Campaign
Tselinograd
Nizhny Novgorod
Socialist Writer
Gorky
Chernyaev
Local Name for the City
Shymkent
Tiflis
Local Name for the City
Tbilisi
Samara
The First First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union
Kuybyshev
Pishpek
The Fourth People's Commissars for Military and Naval Affairs
Frunze
Yekaterinodar
Communism
Krasnodar
Erevan
Local Name for the City
Yerevan
Perm
The Third Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union
Molotov
Tsaritsyn
The Fifth General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Stalingrad
Yekaterinoslav
The Third Chairman of the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee
Dnipropetrovsk
Yuzivka
The Fifth General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Stalino
Dyushambe
The Fifth General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Stalinabad
Ashkhabad
People's Commissar of Labor at the 3rd Regional Congress of Soviets of Turkestan
Poltoratsk
Aleksandrovsk
The Dnieper River
Zaporizhzhia
Stavropol
The Third General Secretary of the Italian Communist Party
Tolyatti
Izhevsk
The Thirteenth First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union
Ustinov
Petrovsk-Port
Commander of the Dagestan Red Army
Makhachkala
Simbirsk
The First Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union
Ulyanovsk
Naberezhnye Chelny
The Seventh General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Brezhnev
Stavropol
The Third Chairmen of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet
Voroshilovsk
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