Named after two streets that cross here: Landsberger Allee and Petersburger Straße.
Landsberger Allee is named not after Landsberg an der Warthe, as is sometimes thought, but after the small town of Altlandsberg; it was Leninallee from 1950 to 1992. Petersburger Straße has honoured Saint Petersburg, the former capital of the Russian Empire, since 1874. From 1947 to 1991 it was Bersarinstraße, after Nikolai Bersarin, the first Soviet city commandant of Berlin in 1945.