I 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1738 
To designate the area of Sumner Row between 16th Street Northwest and 
L Street Northwest in Washington, District of Columbia, as ‘‘Alexei 
Navalny Way’’. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 27, 2025 
Mr. QUIGLEY (for himself and Mr. FITZPATRICK) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform 
A BILL 
To designate the area of Sumner Row between 16th Street 
Northwest and L Street Northwest in Washington, Dis-
trict of Columbia, as ‘‘Alexei Navalny Way’’. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) The administration of President Vladimir V. 
Putin of the Russian Federation has engaged in 
transnational repression, assassinations of political 
opponents, poisoning and other attempted murders 
of political opponents, journalists, and human rights 
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defenders, systemic human rights abuses, and 
unprovoked military attacks against and deploy-
ments to neighboring countries. 
(2) The administration of President Vladimir V. 
Putin of the Russian Federation has carried out ar-
rests and detentions of individuals who peacefully 
seek democratic freedoms or oppose his repression, 
corruption, and invasion of Ukraine. 
(3) Alexei Navalny was a Russian political dis-
sident and activist dedicated to promoting demo-
cratic freedoms and fighting corruption in Russia. 
(4) On February 16, 2024, the Russian prison 
where Alexei Navalny was being held after his con-
viction on fabricated charges in February 2021 an-
nounced that he had died a day after he was seen 
in good health. 
(5) Alexei Navalny had a history of exposing 
the widespread corruption that sustained the Putin 
regime by enriching its enablers. He was recognized 
and awarded on numerous occasions for his work 
fighting corruption and promoting democratic ideals. 
Those recognitions and awards include the 2015 
Prize of the Platform of European Memory and 
Conscience, a nomination for the 2021 Nobel Peace 
Prize, the 2021 Boris Nemtsov Prize for Courage, 
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the 2021 Moral Courage Award by the Geneva Sum-
mit for Human Rights and Democracy, the 2021 
Knight of Freedom Award by the Casimir Pulaski 
Foundation, and the 2021 Sakharov Prize by the 
European Parliament. 
(6) Alexei Navalny and fellow dissident Vladi-
mir Kara-Murza endured several poisonings and 
other attempts on their lives carried out by Putin’s 
government. 
(7) Renaming the street near the official resi-
dence of the Russian Ambassador to the United 
States serves as a continuing expression of solidarity 
between the people of the United States and the peo-
ple of the Russian Federation, who are engaged in 
a sustained, peaceful, and patriotic struggle for fun-
damental freedoms. 
SEC. 2. DESIGNATION OF ALEXEI NAVALNY WAY. 
(a) DESIGNATION OF WAY.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The area of Sumner Row 
Northwest between 16th Street Northwest and L 
Street Northwest in Washington, District of Colum-
bia, shall be known and designated as ‘‘Alexei 
Navalny Way’’. 
(2) REFERENCES.—Any reference in a law, 
map, regulation, document, paper, or other record of 
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the United States to the area referred to in para-
graph (1) shall be deemed to be a reference to 
‘‘Alexei Navalny Way’’. 
(b) SIGNS.—The District of Columbia shall construct 
2 street signs— 
(1) that contain the phrase ‘‘Alexei Navalny 
Way’’; 
(2) one of which shall be placed immediately 
above existing signs between 1135 16th Street 
Northwest and 1119–1125 16th Street Northwest; 
(3) one of which shall be placed on a sign post 
at 1555 L Street Northwest; and 
(4) that are similar in design to the signs used 
by the District of Columbia to designate the location 
of Metro stations. 
Æ 
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