Ukraine will change 200 geographical objects associated with Russia

The Ukrainian government has formed a list of more than 200 geographical objects that will be renamed because their names are linked to Russia, it was reported on 17 January.

Verkhovna Rada MP Oleksiy Honcharenko (listed as a terrorist and extremist in the Russian Federation) published in his Telegram channel a full list of such objects with new names. There are, for example, rivers, tracts, parks, natural monuments, nature reserves, reservoirs, forests, railway stations.

Thus, the natural monument Lenin Memorial Oak in Dnepropetrovsk region will become Cossack Oak, in Kirovograd region a small drying up river Moskovska will be renamed into Sadovaya, and Pushkin Reservoir - into Ositnyazskoye. In Lviv region, Pervomaysky Island will be renamed to Cossack Island. In Poltava region Krupske tract will be called Globinsky. The Park of Friendship of Peoples in Cherkasy region will be renamed into the Park of Freedom.

Earlier, on September 30, 2024, were published draft resolutions of the Ukrainian authorities, which propose to rename five Ukrainian cities. Thus, Yuzhnoukrainsk want to give the name Gard, and Yuzhny - Port-Annental. Pervomaysk is planned to be called Olviopol. Pavlograd decided to be renamed to Matveev, and Sinelnikovo - to Rodnopolye.

At the plenary session of the Kyiv Council on September 19, deputies voted for renaming Botkin, Brusov, Stanislavsky, Ivan Turgenev and Sergei Yesenin streets. In addition, Yunost Park changed its name to Hamburgsky.

Chairman of the International Center for Combating Crime and Terrorism, international political scientist Enes Karakhanov stressed in a conversation with Izvestia on December 4 that Ukraine and the West, no matter how hard they try, will not be able to make people forget and dislike Russian culture.

The policy of so-called decommunization in Ukraine began in 2015 within the framework of the law "On Condemnation of Communist and Nazi Regimes". It prescribes demolition of monuments, dismantling of memorial plaques, renaming of all topographical objects whose names are associated with the USSR or Russia, especially this policy became more acute after the start of the special operation of the Russian Federation to defend Donbass in February 2022.