The Soviet of Moscow has named a street after Leizer Papernik, a Jew who fell in action in the defense of Moscow during the war, it was learned today.
The naming of a thoroughfare as Papernik Street was one of the steps voted by the Moscow Soviet as part of the current observance of the 25th anniversary of the lifting of the Nazi siege of the capital. Other streets were named after other heroes who fell in the battle for Moscow.
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