Name for a Soviet controlled Istanbul

If the Soviets somehow gained control of the Straits of Marmara, what would they call Istanbul and what would they call the SSR that it's part of?
 
Knowing Stalin , i am pretty sure he would have recalled It " Stalinbul" or something like that
Then he would have killed a good chunk of the turkish population
 
Probably something bombastic, the Russians been trying to get the city since forever. If it's Stalin however, he might just rename it to Constantinople to appease the orthodox church.
 
What about Leninşehir? Or even Stalinşehir - after all, Stalin had Eisenhüttenstadt named Stalinstadt with the German version of -grad, too. So why not Stalinşehir?
 
name it after Karl Marx the founder of communism. "Marxgrad" the Glorious Gateway to the world for the Soviet Union and the worker's revolution.
 
Honestly . If and that's a serious if.. The soviets controlled and ran it.

Constantinople is the only choice for the name
 
Istanbul was never a part of the Russian/Soviet empires. If Russia somehow annexed land as far as that city, history would be so different that I wouldn't even be sure if a Soviet Union as we know it would still exist.
 
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