Many names denoting such elements of the spatial structure of the city as streets, squares, avenues, etc. are associated with Russians, whose life and activities have no relation to Ukraine.
Expert Council of the Ministry of Culture, which deals with theoretical and practical issues of overcoming the consequences of Russification and totalitarianism, named the ten most common Russian urban names in Ukraine. Objects, streets and institutions bearing the name of certain figures will be recommended for renaming first of all. The situation with toponymy in the country is reported on the MKIP website.
“A significant number of proper names, denoting such elements of the spatial structure of the city as streets, squares, avenues, etc., are associated with Russians, whose life and activity, by and large, have no relation to Ukraine, its history, science, culture, and who, in most cases, were not born here,” the department said in a statement.
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The 10 most frequently used toponyms include the names of the following persons:
- Yuri Gagarin;
- Alexander Pushkin;
- Ivan Michurin;
- Valery Chkalov;
- Maxim Gorky;
- Mikhail Lermontov;
- Alexander Suvorov;
- Vladimir Mayakovsky;
- Alexander Matrosov
- Vladimir Komarov.
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“In the conditions of the Russian Federation's large-scale invasion of Ukraine, it should be taken into account that the enemy even uses toponymy as a manipulative mechanism for retransmitting propaganda messages, values, its worldview model and the concept of the so-called “Russian world,” — noted Minister of Culture and Information Policy Oleksandr Tkachenko. He added that the full-scale war became a catalyst for removing references to the “great culture of the Russian Federation” from the cultural space of Ukraine.
The Council of the Ministry of Culture supported the decision of local self-government bodies to rename toponyms associated with imperial and Soviet ideologues “in order to minimize the influence of Soviet-Russian narratives on the worldview of Ukrainians, establish historical justice and restore Ukrainian historical and national toponymy.”
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The desire to get rid of the “glorification” of representatives of the USSR and Russia in the names of Ukrainian streets as soon as possible is quite normal , says the material “Express” street renaming in Ukraine: recommendations on how to do it correctly.
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