Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin cut the ceremonial ribbon to officially open Nobel Street at the Skolkovo Innovation Center on Wednesday, the second day of the Startup Village conference.
Medvedev, center, shakes hands with Sobyanin as Arkady Dvorkovich and Victor Vekselberg look on. Photo: Marina Efendieva
In the presence of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, Sobyanin sliced through the red ribbon and passed a piece to Skolkovo president Victor Vekselberg.
The names of 14 streets at the Skolkovo Innovation Center have been registered with Moscow City Hall.
Nobel Street hosts the Skolkovo Technopark Office Center, around which the Startup Village is being held this year.
The Russians honored in the list of street names include the inventor of the radio, Alexander Popov, aviation pioneer Igor Sikorsky, 18th century inventor Ivan Kulibin, artist Kazimir Malevich and Vladimir Zworykin, one of the inventors of the cathode ray television.
Foreign figures include economist Adam Smith, Alfred Nobel, Nicola Tesla, Alessandro Volta, Wilhelm Röntgen, James Maxwell, Albert Einstein and French mathematician Blaise Pascal.
The Skolkovo Innovation Center is a 400-hectare campus 1 kilometer to the west of the main Moscow orbital road.