Ukraine’s Parliament to rename more cities in framework of derussification
Pravda Ukraine
The Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament) plans to derussify several Ukrainian settlements: the city of Chervonohrad in Lviv Oblast will be renamed Sheptytskyi in honour of Metropolitan Andrii Sheptytskyi, and the city of Yuzhne in Odesa Oblast will be renamed Port-Anental.
Source: MP Roman Lozynskyi on Facebook
Quote: “Chervonohrad in Lviv Oblast will soon become the city of Sheptytskyi!”
Details: According to Lozynskyi, the Verkhovna Rada Committee on State Power Organisation, Local Self-Government, Regional Development, and Urban Planning made this decision on Wednesday.
Finally, the change in name will be approved by a vote of the Verkhovna Rada.
According to the parliamentarian, the committee proposes to derussify four more cities and 104 villages and settlements.
- Yuzhne (Odesa Oblast) will be called Port Anental;
- Pavlohrad (Dnipropetrovsk Oblast) – Matviiv;
- Synelnykove (Dnipropetrovsk Oblast) – Ridnopillia;
- Brovary (Kyiv Oblast) – Brovari.
Lozynskyi explained that in this way, Yuzhnyi would be given its historical name back.
Reference: Sheptytskyi was the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church’s primate, Metropolitan of Halych, Archbishop of Lviv (1901–1944), and Bishop of Stanyslaviv Eparchy (1899–1900). This is one of the most prominent leaders in the Ukrainian church and national movement during the first half of the twentieth century. He came from an old and noble family.
Previously: Maksym Kozytskyi, Head of Lviv Oblast Military Administration, announced in January that the region’s last Soviet monument had been dismantled. He went on to say that “Lviv Oblast was the first in Ukraine to fully complete the process of decommunization” and that it could serve as “an example for other regions.”
However, the city of Chervonohrad in Lviv Oblast has yet to be decommunised. According to the legislation, it should be renamed by the local council and the Verkhovna Rada. Until 1951, the city was known as Krystynopil.
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