The name of Teatrului Street from the capital remained unchanged

The Municipal Council of Chisinau (CMC) rejected, on Tuesday, a decision draft on changing the name of Teatrului Alley from the center of the Capital into Constantin Constantinov Street. The draft also provided installing a memorial plaque on the building from the A. Sciusev Str, in which the great artist lived. The communist councilor, Valeri Pavlov, and the head of the PPCD faction, Alexandru Corduneanu, suggested the General Department of Architecture and Urbanism to take into consideration, for the future, that changing streets’ names is not welcomed. At the same time, Pavlov said that “Constantin Constantinov street” is a too long name and that its inhabitants will “encounter difficulties”, suggesting to the specialists that they think up a shorter name. Changing the name of Teatrului Street into Constantin Constantinov Street was solicited by the Theatrical Union of Moldova, for eternizing the memory of the artist who played about 100 characters on the stage and over 50 roles in movies. Over the last years, the Municipal commission for regulating the names of city’s objects and installing memorial plaques abstained from the practice of modifying the existing names of the streets. Members of the commission rejected, earlier, the proposal of several municipal councilors to give one of the streets from the center of the capital the name of the famous director Emil Loteanu or to change the name of Studentilor Street from Riscani district, claiming that this will create a precedent that would favor proposals for other changes of the actual names of the streets. Thus, CMC gave the name of Emil Loteanu to a new street. Earlier, communist councilors requested that several street names are changed, insisting that they have the names of several leaders of the Soviet Army in the World War II: Tolbuhin, Belski, Berzarin and Timosenko.