What's in a Prague street name

Kovriginova was built in 1977.

I want to start this one by taking you to https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/09/20/prague-4-day-178-goncarenkova/, and the story of when Soviet tanks entered Prague in May 1945.

As well as Honcharenko, the crew of tank no. 24 included a loader, Nikolai Kovrigin. According to an article published earlier this year by a local newspaper in Samara, he was 19 and came from a village called Borskoye.

He was believed to have been killed, but, according to a 2013 article from the same paper, was found to be alive and back in his home village in 1965.

I don’t expect to get any further details, nor do I unquestioningly believe these articles, but I do know that, when your searches reveal just how many men called Nikolai Kovrigin have died in battle, let alone all the other names, it reconfirms just how f**king pointless all this fighting is.