What's in a Prague street name
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I could talk about myself for ages, or I could point out that https://english.radio.cz/ed-ley-englishman-recording-stories-pragues-streets-one-one-8806941 is over two years old but still largely stands (other than the Twitter links).
Category: 1979
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Pod vrstevnicí was built in 1979. Until 1990, it shared a name with https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/07/27/prague-4-day-409-na-vrstevnici/, and is, of course, named after the same ‘vrstevnice’ / contour line. There are several types of contour line. A basic one (základní vrstevnice) connects point which are the same height above sea level. Also, contour lines are drawn at basic…
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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…
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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.…
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