It is interesting that from 1980 to 1989 a street and even a public transport stop were named in honor of Boris Mikhailovich Shaposhnikov.
The first mention of this can be found in a document such as the “Chelyabinsk Street Directory”, dated 1980, which states that Shaposhnikova Street runs from Plastskaya Street to Nizinnaya Street:
Photo 12 – extract from the Chelyabinsk Street Directory, 1980
From the 1989 edition, the same numbering of houses and boundaries on which Shaposhnikova Street was located already has a different name “Dneprovskaya Street”:
Photo 13 – extract from the Chelyabinsk Street Directory, 1989
At the time of 2020, turning to modern maps of Chelyabinsk, one could see the following: Dneprovskaya Street extends within the same boundaries, there is also a stop of the same name. And only a small part of it, a little more than 190 meters long, is designated as Shaposhnikov Street, but without a single address:
Photo 14 – maps of Chelyabinsk, 2020
At the moment, you won’t even find this small section of Shaposhnikov Street on maps:
It turns out that the name of the street has changed more than once. From the very beginning it was Torpednaya Street (since 1957, although in reference books it is referred to as Dneprovskaya Street). On October 1, 1980, it was renamed in honor of the Marshal of the Soviet Union, a citizen of Zlatoust, Boris Mikhailovich Shaposhnikov. However, the new name did not take root, changing the name to the previous one – Dneprovskaya Street, which it remains as now [3].
But this small and short-lived event did not go unnoticed, and Chelyabinsk remembers that short period associated with the name of the magnificent military leader.
