Why did the Russian town of Detskoye Selo change its name in 1937?

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It was renamed Pushkin in honour of the poet in the centenary year of his death. Pushkin studied at the Lyceum in Tsarskoye Selo (as it then was) from 1811 to 1817. Dec 28 03, 2:12 PM

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