The Soviet Mission’s compound in the Riverdale section of The Bronx is no longer located at 344 West 255th Street. The compound hasn’t moved, the name of the street has disappeared. Borough President Stanley Simon had the name of the street renamed One Sharansky Square in honor of the imprisoned Soviet Jewish dissident Anatoly Shcharansky. The spelling of his name in the address differs from the usual transliteration.
Simon said he had the segment of the street where the compound is located renamed under a power granted him in the city’s administrative code which permits changing individual building designations. Simon personally supervised the placing of a new street sign at the intersection of 255th Street and Mosholu Avenue several days ago.
The United States Mission to the United Nations said it received a verbal protest from the Soviet representative at the UN, Oleg Troyanovsky, which was relayed through one of his deputies.
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