City council member Stepan Kuzev said the authorities had unanimously approved a proposal by the extreme nationalist Ukrainian National Self-Defense Organization to rename the street. Dozens of fighters from the organization have fought with Dudayev's rebels against Russian troops.
The street had been named after the 19th century Russian poet Mikhail Lermontov. Lermontov was killed in a duel in the northern Caucasus, where Moscow's troops have been trying to subdue Dudayev's separatist fighters since December 1994.
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