What's in a Prague street name
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Category: Prague Uprising
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Květnových bojů was built in 1952. ‘Květnových bojů’ translates as (street) ‘of the May battles’, and commemorates the fact that Krč had a particularly hard time of it during the Prague Uprising of 1945. There have been a good few posts about the Prague Uprising, especially recently; https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/category/prague-uprising/ should guide you to all of them.
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Horáčkova was most likely built in the 1930s. Until 1952, it was named U družstev after the housing cooperatives (družstva) that built the surrounding residential buildings. Vlastimil Horáček was born in 1927. At the time of the Prague Uprising, he was a student at a technical school. On 7 May 1945, Vlastimil was killed during…
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Stallichova was named in 1952, but built before then. Antonín Stallich was born in Vinohrady in 1887. In 1921, he married Anna Hronová, the younger sister of Antonín Hron, a World War I veteran who was active in the anti-Nazi Resistance and ultimately died of exhaustion at Flossenbürg concentration camp in April 1945. Antonín (Stallich)…
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Herálecká IV was built in the 1960s. Herálecká IV obviously has its name for the same reason as the other three Herálecké: https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/04/03/prague-4-day-349-heralecka-i/. So, I’m going to complete the series I’ve been doing these last few days where I tell the story of the Prague Uprising, day by day. Today, we’re on May 9. The…
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Herálecká III was built in the 1960s. Is it a bit tacky to announce that this is my 1,000th street post? Yes? Oh well. As promised on yesterday’s post (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/04/04/prague-4-day-350-heralecka-ii/), I’m going to continue with the story of the Prague Uprising, this time covering 8 May 1945. The day started with an announcement from Moscow…
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Herálecká was built in the 1960s. Herálecká II follows on from Herálecká I, which we discussed yesterday (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/04/03/prague-4-day-349-heralecka-i/). Cue me thinking what to write about instead, but actually working that out almost at once. Krč suffered a lot during the Prague Uprising. It is right next to a street named after both the Uprising’s first…
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Obětí 6. května was built in 1941. The Prague Uprising, an attempt by the Czech resistance to liberate Prague from six years of occupation, broke out on 5 May 1945. You can read about its first day on https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/02/05/prague-4-day-25-5-kvetna-5-may/. On the night of the 5th and 6th of May, almost 1,600 barricades were erected in…
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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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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…
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Gončarenkova was built in 1934. From 1934 to 1952, the street was called Podhájská; from 1952 to 1957, it was called Na Zvoničce; from 1957 to 1973, it was called Na Zvoničce II. I’m saying nothing about those names, as all will become clear in the next few days. Ivan Hryhorovych Hončarenko was born in…
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Jeremenkova has exited in its current form since 1952; before then, it consisted of two separate streets called Dvorecká (built 1906) and Pod vrstami (created 1938). More on those in future posts, as there are still streets with those names. Andrei Ivanovich Yeremenko was born to a peasant family in Markivka, near Kharkiv, in 1892.…
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Na Topolce was built in 1925. Once upon a time, there was a vineyard around here. It was called Topolka. According to legend, water from the spring here was used to serve Vyšehrad (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/08/26/prague-2-day-118-vysehradska/). At some point, the local well also became known as Topolka; there are rumours that Libuše used drink from it (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/08/23/prague-2-day-93-libusina/),…
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In 1938, this square was first named individually on maps – but it was called Soudní náměstí (Court Square), after the Prague High Court, which had moved here in 1933 (see https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/03/25/prague-4-day-57-soudni/). During the Prague Uprising of May 1945 (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/02/05/prague-4-day-25-5-kvetna-5-may/), barricades stood in front of the court, aiming to stop the Nazis from reaching Pankrác;…
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Doudlebská was built in 1941. Doudleby (coat of arms below) is a village less than ten kilometres from České Budějovice – so it’s quite appropriate that this street is just a stone’s throw from Budějovická. It’s named after the Doudleby tribe, who settled in the area of the village around 800. It was one of…
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Bartoškova was built in 1910. Theodor Bartošek was born in Ždánice, in South Moravia, in 1877; his father was a judge. After finishing school in Brno in 1897, he moved to Prague to study law and philosophy, where one of the professors who had the greatest impact on him was one Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/09/01/prague-2-day-156-masarykovo-nabrezi/).…
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Náměstí Generála Kutlvašra (General Kutlvašr Square) was built in 1911. Karel Kutlvašr was born in Michalovice, near Havlíčkův Brod, in 1896. Graduating from business school in 1911, he first worked in Humpolec, then in Kyiv. However, when World War One started, he joined the Czech Company, a volunteer unit consisting of Czechs living in the…
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The road was built in 1931, and, until 1940 (and again from 1945 to 1978), it was named 1. listopadu – 1 November – in honour of the Battle of Vyšehrad in 1420: https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/02/01/prague-4-day-21-na-vitezne-plani/. By May 1945, Bohemia and Moravia had been occupied by Nazi Germany for over six years. However, both Soviet and American…
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Originally published on X on 9 May 2024. Pierre Curie was born in Paris in 1859. He was educated at home by his parents (his father was a doctor), and took his baccalaureate in science when he was 16. Two years later – when he was just 18 – he would already have a degree…
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Originally published on X on 16 April 2024. In the 14th century, this street became part of the marketplace that we now know as Old Town Square (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/10/12/prague-1-day-190-staromestske-namesti-old-town-square/). Sellers of bridles (Czech: uzdy) operated here, and the street became known as V uzdářích or Pod uzdáři for a couple of hundred years. Back on current-day…
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