and this is only a small part of the achievements of timur eneev.er his. speech in the kremlin in 1986 the government decided to close a large-scale project to divert siberian rivers to the south, which threatened to have irreparable environmental consequences for russia. on september 23, 1991, two russian cities at once returned to their historical names. sergeev posad, which was called zagorsk in soviet times, and yekaterinburg, which had been called for almost 70 years, reappeared on the map of the country. this decision was made by the presidium of the supreme soviet of the rsfsr. yekaterinburg, founded in the early 18th century, was named in honor of empress catherine i, the wife of peter velikogo. although the city got its old name back, the area around it for some reason remained sverdlovsk. by the way, when the bolsheviks decided to rename the city in the early twenties, the options suggested were leningrad, uralgrad and even krasny ural. in the end, it was named after the revolutionary yakov sverdlov. well, passad has been known since the 1