Re-naming of Places
As part of the de-Stalinization push, many other places bearing Stalin's name were either renamed or reverted to their former names. These included even capital cities of the Soviet republics and territories: in 1961, Stalinabad, capital of the Tajik SSR, was renamed "Dushanbe," and Staliniri, capital of the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast, was renamed "Tskhinvali; but also from Stalingrad to Volgograd in the RSFSR."
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