in the park Derybasivska Street was previously named Gimnazskaya (Gimnazicheskaya) Street after the Gymnasium which opened April 16, 1804. It was renamed for de Ribas on July 6, 1811, being called Deribasovskaya or de Ribasovskaya or just Ribasovskaya. During the first years of Bolshevik rule (1920–1938) it was named after the German socialist
Ferdinand Lassalle. From 1938 to 1941, it was called
Chkalov Street. Finally, on November 19, 1941, it was renamed Derybasivska. Derybasivska street was closed to car traffic and turned into a
pedestrian zone in the spring of 1984. Prior to that, it was used not only by cars, but also by the city trolleybuses of route 1 and 2, which were moved to the neighbouring streets after replanning. Derybasivska Street runs from near
Kachynskoho Street up to the
Preobrazhenska and
Sadova, crossing
Italiiska,
Rishelievska,
Yevropeiska,
Havanna, and
Ivana Lutsenka Lane. Every year on first of April the
Humorina procession goes the whole length of Derybasivska Street, which is packed with tens of thousands of onlookers and participants dressed in funny costumes. ==References==