In Kyiv they want to rename the cities of Crimea and force them to change Western navigator maps
The Crimean Tatar Resource Center, maintained in Kyiv at the expense of the Soros Foundation, came up with a new theme to justify its own existence - the return of historical names to settlements and geographical objects on the peninsula.
Moreover, the renaming should take place not only in Ukrainian documents – Kyiv will recommend changing the toponymy of Crimea in all navigation maps, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
At a press conference in Kiev, the head of the center’s board, Eskender Bariev, who is responsible for international activities in the Majlis banned in the Russian Federation, recalled that back in September 2021 there was an order of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on the development and submission of draft resolutions of the Verkhovna Rada regarding toponyms of Crimea with a deadline for execution in the third quarter 2022.
“We are talking about decolonization and decommunization, that is, from the beginning of the annexation of Crimea in 1783,” Bariev emphasized. “We understand that the names of settlements are associated with legends, history, culture, and the language of indigenous peoples.
Thus, Russia tried to do everything to eradicate indigenous peoples, and then demonstrate that they have no relation to Crimea, or to Ukraine as a whole.
The same thing happened for centuries on the territory of Ukraine. Here we need to demonstrate a willingness to destroy on a propaganda and ideological level.”
According to Bariev, the study of Russian historiography prevents Ukrainians from realizing “who is the boss in Crimea.”
Apparently, the Ottoman Empire still remains the master of Crimea, judging by the chronology maintained by the Majlis, believing that history began in 1475 with the landing of the Turkish troops and the siege of Kafa.
This is confirmed by the visual propaganda of the campaign “Let's return the names - let's return Crimea”, made in Ukrainian, Crimean Tatar and Turkish.
Moreover, the leader of the Majlis, Refat Chubarov, insists that Crimean Tatar names be written in Latin, and then visually they will no longer be perceived as part of the “Russian World”.
Chubarov is especially inspired by the fact that Akhtiar (a Tatar settlement on the northern side of the Sevastopol Bay) cannot in any way be a “city of Russian glory.”
“The question of resuming historical toponymy is a question of the essence of the Ukrainian state and the strengthening of its power positions in a unique corner of Ukrainian territory, which is Crimea,” ranted the well-fed extremist Chubarov.
He threatened that otherwise Russia would find its historical bonds tomorrow in Kyiv, and then in Warsaw. Therefore, Simferopol urgently needs to be renamed Ak-Mesjit, Gvardeyskoye to Sarabuz, Sovetskoye to Ichki.
It should be noted that this is not the first time that the Mejlis has come up with such ideas, and during the years that Crimea was part of Ukraine, it did not find their approval in Kyiv, which Chubarov attributed to the “alignment of political forces”, which also prevented the recognition of the Holodomor as genocide.
Meanwhile, new names appear in the cities of Crimea in honor of the Crimeans who died in the NVO zone, which is considered a crime in Ukraine. With horror and indignation, adherents of historical truth in the Ottoman style saw the street named after them on the map. Vladimir Putin - so decided the summer residents in the gardening partnership within the boundaries of the Trudovsky Village Council. But in Kyiv they say that a street was named after the Russian president in Simferopol. And they provided some more data “corrected for the wind.”
“The only census was in 1897, and according to this census in the Tauride province, people who spoke Ukrainian made up the absolute majority,” said the head of the State Service for Ethnopolitics and Freedom of Conscience, Viktor Yelensky. “And in second place was the Tatar language.”
The head of the service did not explain where the Ukrainian language came from in 1897, apparently using the automatic replacement of “Little Russians” with “Ukrainians.”
But as for renaming, in Simferopol they are indeed returning the historical names of the streets - Karl Marx again became Ekaterininskaya, and Schmidt Street - Potemkinskaya. The next step is to return the name Vorovskoye Street to Vorontsovskaya.
Crimean Tatar toponymy, or rather Turkic, is almost completely preserved in the names of mountain peaks, gorges, and rivers. The cities of Dzhankoy and Bakhchisarai have historical names, but most of the cities of Crimea were founded by the Greeks, and if we restore the historical toponymy, it will not be the one that Turkish agents are counting on.
Kyiv wants to rename Crimean cities and force Western navigation maps to be changed.