The building which is now the embassy
chancery was bought by Jiří Popper, a
Czech banker in 1927.
Edvard Beneš, the then
President of Czechoslovakia in exile and Jiří Popper, both of whom knew each other, fled to
London on the same
aircraft in 1938. The Bubeneč Popper house and
surrounding land was confiscated by the
Nazi authorities on 16 March 1939, a day after their
occupation of Czechoslovakia, In 2020, the Prague city council renamed the plaza on which the embassy sits to Boris Nemtsov Square, after
the Russian opposition politician who was murdered in 2015. In response, the embassy changed its official address to 36 Korunovační Street, the address of the embassy's consular division, on the same property but with its address on the adjacent street. The embassy described Korunovační Street as "historical" and said "the probability of its renaming is much lower than that of the recently appeared 'Boris Nemtsov square.'" Following the
Russian invasion of Ukraine, on 22 April 2022 the Prague city council also renamed a short stretch of Korunovační Street in front of the embassy to "Ukrajinských hrdinů" (in English:
Ukrainian heroes), so the embassy's address is now 6 Ukrajinských hrdinů. == See also ==