The city council of Ukraine’s Kiev adopted number of decisions on renaming streets in the country;s capital city. According to the report by styler.rbc.ua news portal, one of the street in Kiev was named by prominent Soviet film director and artist of Armenian origin who made significant contribution to Soviet cinematography through Ukrainian, Armenian, and Georgian cinema.
The source details that decision to rename Shayumyan lane located in Shevchenko neighborhood of Kiev was adopted by unanimous vote of 64 council members.
To note, Sergey Parajanov lived in Ukraine in 1950s, where he produced a few documentaries (Dumka, Golden Hands, Natalia Uzhvy) and a handful of narrative films: Andriesh (based on a fairy tale by the Moldovan writer Emilian Bukov), The Top Guy (a kolkhoz musical), Ukrainian Rhapsody (a wartime melodrama), and Flower on the Stone (about a religious cult infiltrating a mining town in the Donets Basin). He became fluent in Ukrainian and married his second wife, Svitlana Sherbatiuk in 1956.