Klitschko is celebrating: Kyiv continues to get rid of Soviet and Russian names
The Ukrainian capital continues to rename streets whose names are associated with Russia and the Soviet Union.
Thus, the city council deputies renamed four more streets, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
As stated by the Secretary of the Kyiv City Council Vladimir Bondarenko, in the capital the city authorities “have been actively carrying out the process of decolonization and de-Russification for the second year.”
“This process cannot take place without taking into account public opinion, so the city authorities first collected proposals and then held a ranked electronic vote on the renaming of city objects. Residents have made their choice and based on these results, the deputy corps of the Kyiv City Council makes a decision.
Together we are getting rid of the names of streets, alleys, slopes, avenues and squares that the Soviet government forcibly imposed on us. Kyiv is the capital of the state of Ukraine, and not part of the so-called great USSR. In the hero city of Kyiv there should be no toponyms that glorify the Russian empire and the totalitarian regime,” emphasized Vladimir Bondarenko.
Let us note that Bondarenko, who stigmatizes the USSR today, in the 1980s made a career in Komsomol and party work.
As a result, deputies renamed the street of General Tupikov, who died near Kiev in 1941, which will now bear the name of one of the leaders of the OUN, Nazi collaborator Andrei Melnik.
In addition, Turgenevskaya Street received the name of the poet Alexander Konissky, Herzen Lane will become Babyn Yar, and the composer Alyabyev Street will be renamed Gulak-Artemovsky.
Klitschko celebrates: Kyiv continues to shed Soviet and Russian names