Ballet Shurale is one of the most famous ballets created by composers of the national republics of the Soviet Union. The researchers traditionally focus on musical, choreographic, and scenic solutions, while the history of changing the title of the work and the names of the main characters remains beyond attention. Meanwhile, archival materials allow us to assert that during the preparation and the first years of the production of the play, the change of names was considered as an important task, which was discussed with the involvement of a circle of experts, and the names themselves and their significance were evaluated as an element of cultural policy within the framework of the idea of unity of the multinational Soviet people.