Sobyanin signed a decree on naming the street after Zhirinovsky

One of the streets of Moscow will be named after the ex-leader of the Liberal Democratic Party Vladimir Zhirinovsky. The resolution on renaming was signed by Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, the document is published on the website of the city government.

Zhirinovsky Street will be a section of Nezhinskaya Street along the border of the Setun River Valley nature reserve, which is located in the Ochakovo-Matveevskoye district in the Western Administrative District.

The new head of the party, Leonid Slutsky, explained that the street would be located not far from Zhirinovsky's house, where he had lived for many years.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky died on April 6 from complications of COVID-19 . He was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery. President Vladimir Putin came to say goodbye to the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party , and the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill served his funeral in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior.