I am kind of late reading this story, but it is really touching. It shows better then any other lecture, how the people lived, thought, or what they aspired to. And like anything else, there were good and noble people and ideas, and the opportunistic and damaging ones as well. But street names, as well as the mores of the time, stay with us, and remain part of our life story. But the time marches on, and for as long as there is even one person that remembers, the past is alive.

It might have different meaning when you heard those street names but these days i do not experience any feelings associated with the past. Perhaps it is worth adding to the list such streets as "Akademicheskiy" drive and "Ulitsa Stroiteley" which mean academic drive and construction workers street giving more sense to the bypassers and travelers about the history of the area. And of course there are numerous similar street with "practical" names out there in both small and giant cities. On the other hand such streets is not a common trait of the USSR and modern Russia, one can try to count how many Springfields are in the US and that so many properties are found on Big Oak str, Cedar park, Woodhollow str, Peasant Valley, Valley Dr, Big Hills, some kind of creek. And of course do not forget ubiquitous MLK street.