This decision was made to “clean the urban space from toponyms that preserve and glorify Russia and Belarus.”
In Chernihiv, streets were renamed, the names of which are associated with Russia and Belarus, the press service of the city council reported.
“37 streets and alleys, as well as one square, were renamed in Chernihiv. At the plenary meeting of the 29th extraordinary session of the Chernihiv city council, representatives supported the decision to rename the city streets,” the report said.
In particular, the streets and lanes named after the writer Mikhail Lermontov, the Soviet poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, the partisan Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya and others were renamed. 1st May Street will now be named after Mikhail Hrushevsky, chairman of the Central Rada, and Brestskaya and Griboedova streets will bear the names of Ukrainian soldiers killed last year.
It was noted that such a decision was made to “clean the urban space from toponyms that preserve and glorify Russia and Belarus.”
Earlier it was reported that representatives of the Kyiv City Council renamed 31 more streets, lanes, avenues and boulevards, whose names are associated with the Russian Federation and the Soviet past.
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Source: korrespondent
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