Räni (Räni)

Silicon. Street hovering between existence (1959) and virtuality (2013) in town-planners’ minds and builders’ pockets. Known previously as Kotka, (Adlerstraße / Орлиная ул), and Надеждинская (1925) (Nadežda), but who this was is not clear: Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Stalin’s second wife, who committed suicide 7 years’ later at the age of 31? Or just Nadežda, Russian for ‘hope’?