The railways press office said the renaming was being discussed but that a final decision had not been made. The earlier statement, which the press office attributed to a “technical mistake,” said president Vladimir Yakunin had already changed the station’s name.
Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov said such a decision was not up to “some department,” and that given the “world economic crisis, such actions, intended to debase Soviet history, incite disorder in the country.”
The station was called St. Petersburg Station when opened in 1851 and renamed Nikolayevsky in 1855. It was changed to Oktyabrsky after the Revolution, then to Leningradsky in 1924.
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