What's in a Prague street name

Saveljevova was built in 1979.

Mikhail Ivanovich Savelyev was born in 1896 in Poyarkovo, a village in Ryazan Governorate, Russia. From the age of twelve, he worked in a butcher’s shop in Moscow.

In 1915, he was drafted into the army; after the October Revolution of 1917, he was involved in the disarmament of counterrevolutionary officers.

Savelyev stayed in the army and was continually promoted; fast forwarding almost thirty years, his troops had, by May 1945, taken Bucharest, Levice (Slovakia), Brno, Vienna and Budapest.

This is also why this street is named after him: on 9 May 1945, the 5th Guards Tank Corps, of which he was commander, entered Prague.

Savelyev died in 1970.

For the story of the start of the Prague Uprising in May 1945, take a look at https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/02/05/prague-4-day-25-5-kvetna-5-may/.

For a more detailed look at the events of 9 May, you can go to https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/09/20/prague-4-day-178-goncarenkova/ (which Saveljevova is next to).