What's in a Prague street name

Every street in Prague, one by one.

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Category: 1979

  • Prague 4, day 395: Valtínovská

    Valtínovská was built in 1979. Valtínov is another village near Jindřichův Hradec, and actually part of the municipality of Kunžak (see https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/06/04/prague-4-day-393-kunzacka/). It has about 120 inhabitants. The earliest written mention that we know of is from 1358. The name means that it was once the property of someone called Valtin, a shorter version of…

  • Prague 4, day 198: Saveljevova 

    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.…