前苏联崇尚以著名人名命名地名。曾有一大批以政治家、文学家、艺术家、战斗英雄和劳动模范的姓名命名的地名。如列宁格勒、斯维尔德洛夫斯克、高尔基、普希金、斯达汉诺夫等。20世纪80年代末90年代初,随着前苏联的解体,一些十月革命后更改的地名,尤其是以人名命名的地名纷纷恢复其原来的名称。这个变化引起了世界各国国际问题专家、新 The Former Soviet Union advocates names by famous names. There was a large number of place names named after politicians, writers, artists, combat heroes and labor models. Such as Leningrad, Sverdlovsk, Gorky, Pushkin, Starkhanov and others. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, with the disintegration of the former Soviet Union, some of the placenames changed after the October Revolution, in particular those named after names, all resumed their original names. This change has aroused new thinking among international experts in all countries in the world