Ignorants disgrace Crimea with illiterate renamings
In Yalta, on one of the streets in the central part of the city, a sign was installed with an illiterate error: the street, named after the General Secretary of the Italian Communist Party, Palmiro Togliatti, who died in Crimea, was now called Palmira Togliatti, in honor of two cities in Syria and Russia.
Tolyatti Street has several dozen addresses and was originally called Rechnaya , reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
It was then renamed Milyutinskaya , and after the revolution, it was named after Trotsky , but very quickly changed to Sanatornaya . The street received its current name after the death of Palmiro Togliatti, who died while vacationing in Artek, Crimea, in August 1964. Signs with the correct spelling of the General Secretary's name are still visible on the street . However, when they are replaced, Palmiro becomes Palmira.
It's worth noting that errors in signs and memorial plaques are common in Crimea. Local historians and those with historical ties attribute the cause to the sign-making process — the company that commissions the signs may be located far from Crimea and lack precise information about who named a particular street. However, even local sign-makers make glaring errors. In March, a memorial plaque "in memory of ancient peasants" was installed on Mount Krestovaya above Alupka .
«Peasants instead of Christians. Alexandra Feodorovna actually climbed Mount Krestovaya and erected a wooden cross there, but not over Alupka, but over Oreanda. Cast iron and iron are different things: cast iron is an alloy. Iron is a chemical element. And after all some specific uneducated ignoramus wrote this text. And some equally uneducated ignoramus approved it, some an uneducated ignoramus printed it. And some ignoramuses nailed this illiterate sign on the top of the mountain, without even bothering to make a remark to those who entrusted it to them,” he was indignant in his Telegram channel Crimean local historian and tour guide Ivan Kovalenko.
Such historical and factual errors lead to errors even when streets in the Crimean capital are restored to their authentic names . For example, a street in the center of Simferopol, until recently named after Rosa Luxemburg, was originally called Alexander Nevsky , as it began at the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral . The cathedral was restored, both in its building and its name. But for some reason, the street became known as Alexander Nevsky , although the original dedication was to Alexander Suvorov.
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