The Nearby project will tell about the war heroes whose names the streets of Moscow bear.

An educational project "Nearby" has been launched in Moscow, dedicated to the war heroes whose names the streets of the capital bear. This was announced on June 25 on the official website of the mayor of the city.

"The project <...> allows us to look at the city in a different way, and also helps to preserve historical memory and remind that real destinies are behind the usual names," they noted.

As part of the initiative, posters with information about the participants of the Great Patriotic War (WWII) will be placed on 80 streets of Moscow, as well as at public transport stops, press kiosks and classic billboards.

It is specified that each of the 80 streets is named after one of the heroes of the Great Patriotic War. For example, billboards dedicated to Commander Georgy Zhukov have already been installed on Marshal Zhukov Avenue. Similar posters were posted on some other streets: Pilots Tarasova, Pokryshkina and Artamonov.

The initiative is carried out with the assistance of the Moscow Department of Mass Media and Advertising in cooperation with the All-Russian Public and State Movement of Children and Youth "Movement of the First".

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