They want to rename the streets of Gagarin, Glinka, Griboyedov, Tchaikovsky, Shishkin, Chekhov, Decembrists, Chelyuskintsev and others.
In Uzhgorod, locals are asking local authorities to de-Russify the names of streets and squares in the city.
“Many streets, squares, squares and alleys of our city are named after Russian politicians, literature and art figures who are in no way involved in Transcarpathia and Uzhgorod, and therefore are an atavism of the previous policy of building all-Russian and Soviet cultural space,” the statement said . to the Uzhhorod City Council.
Residents are asked to begin the process of de-Russification of the city in accordance with the procedure established by law.
They want to rename the streets of Ankudinov, Admiral Nakhimov, Bagration, Bestuzhev-Ryumin, Borodin, Vereshchagin, Gagarin, Glinka, Griboyedov, Decembrists, Dobrolyubov, Donsky, Dostoevsky, Krylov, Lermontov, Lomonosov, Pavnov, Ozegov, Mozhevsky, Maregov, Mozhevsky, Maregov, Radishchev, Razin, Ryleyev, Saltykov-Shchedrin, Sechenov, Stoletov, Surikov, Timiryazev, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Tsiolkovsky, Tchaikovsky, Chelyuskintsev, Chernyshevsky, Chekhov, Shishkin.
In a petition, Uzhgorod residents asked to dismantle a bust of Pushkin in the center of Uzhgorod.
“These days we have new heroes who sacrifice their lives for our country. We must perpetuate and cherish their memory. In addition, outstanding figures of the history and culture of Transcarpathia in particular and Ukraine in general, who were in the Soviet period under the ban “, – noted the authors of the appeal.
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