In Ukraine, they announced the renaming of 1,000 populated places as part of decommunization.

Over the past decade, about a thousand settlements in Ukraine have been renamed as part of the country's decommunization policy. This was announced on April 10 by the press service of the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture.

"Thanks to decommunization legislation, the process of cleaning up public space has been launched <...>, as a result of which about a thousand settlements have been renamed, as well as 25 administrative districts and 27 districts in cities," the agency's website says.

Since 2015, the law on decommunization has been in force in Ukraine, under which monuments are being dismantled and topographical names associated with Soviet history are being eliminated."Газета.Ru ".

Earlier, on January 29, it was reported that the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine approved new names for 20 geographical objects in the Odessa region as part of decommunization and decolonization.

Prior to that, on January 17, the Ukrainian government formed a list of more than 200 geographical objects that will be renamed due to the fact that their names are associated with Russia. The list includes rivers, tracts, parks, natural monuments, nature reserves, reservoirs, forests, and railway stations.