In Kyiv city state administration supported the renaming of the street Melnikova in honor of the Director Ilyenko.
Kyiv city state administration (KCSA) has supported the decision to rename the street Melnikova in the Shevchenko district in honor of the film Director Yuri Ilyenko.
This reports the press service of the KSCA.
The profile Commission of the Kyiv city state administration supported the decision to rename the street to a meeting on Wednesday, September 20.
Now the decision on the renaming of the street will be considered by the city Council.
Yuri Ilyenko in the period from 1965 to 2010, he directed 13 films, the most famous of which is “shadows of forgotten ancestors”. In addition, he is the author of artistic works and publications. In the last years of his life Ilyenko was politically active and was a member of the political Council IN “Freedom”.
In 1869-1922 years and years 1941-1947 street had the name Dorogozhitskaya street (or in the XIX — early XX art. Big dorogozhytska), from the chronicle of the area dorogozhychi. In 1922 it received its present name in honor of Yuvenaly Melnikov — one of the first in Kiev propagandists of the social-democratic views.
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