De-Russification of Ukraine: how, due to the Russian invasion, they began to fight the Soviet legacy

Russia's invasion of Ukraine became a catalyst for the displacement of Soviet heritage from Ukraine: monuments, names, various cultural events, etc.

Yes, mayor. Of Odessa Gennady Trukhanov сообщил, that in the near future, signs of Russian cities: Volgograd, Moscow, Rostov-on-Don, St. Petersburg and Taganrog will disappear from the Memorial sign of sister cities and partner cities of Odessa on Dumskaya Square.

В Ivano-Frankivsk renamed 25 streets named after figures of Russian and Soviet culture and science.

“Right now we are fighting for the victory of Ukraine and we cannot allow our future independent state to remember and honor Moscow or Russian scientists, writers, politicians, and even more so Soviet holidays”, - the mayor of Ivano-Frankivsk explained the decision Ruslan Marcinkiv.

The streets of Dostoevsky, Lermontov, Chekhov, Tolstoy, Mendeleev, Tsiolkovsky, Repin, Korolenko, Makarenko and Academician Sakharov were renamed in the city. Instead of them, the streets of Heroes of Chernigov, Mariupol, Volnovakha, Nikolaev, Kharkov, Kherson will appear. Also, part of the streets will be named after members of the OUN-UPA and figures of Ukrainian culture.

And in the settlement of Tismenichany of the Ivano-Frankivsk community, Gagarin Street will become a street Roman Shukhevich, and Rudneva street - Stepan Bandera.

Earlier in Uzhgorod dismantled memorial plate in honor of the 300th anniversary of the reunification of Ukraine with the Russian Federation and in the near future, according to the mayor Bogdan Andreeva, plan to rename 58 streets.

Kyiv on the agenda

City Council at today's meeting He has made a decision on the renaming of the former square, named in honor of the friendship between Kyiv and Moscow, in the square of the Heroes of Mariupol.

It is noted that the Kyiv City Council supported the renaming of a number of city objects, regarding which the necessary procedures have already been carried out, but their names have not yet been announced.

“In Kyiv, there are still dozens of streets and objects with names associated with the aggressor. Their renaming is relevant. Therefore, we are developing new names for streets, avenues, metro stations and other objects. We have allocated time for these procedures until May 9th. We will process the package and make a comprehensive decision at a meeting of the Kyiv City Council”- said the mayor of Kyiv Vitali Klitschko.

Before that, in Kyiv, the hero cities of Belarus and the Russian Federation were dismantled from the monument on Shulyavka. This was reported in the Center for Strategic Communications and Information Security.

“Where Moscow, Leningrad, Stalingrad, Tula, Murmansk, Smolensk, Novorossiysk, as well as Minsk and Brest used to be, Ukrainian hero cities appeared: Kharkov, Kherson, Chernigov, Nikolaev, Volnovakha, Akhtyrka, Bucha, Irpen, Gostomel and Mariupol", - told the Center for Strategic Communications.

Of the names on the stele that were there before, only Ukrainian ones were left - Kyiv, Sevastopol, Odessa and Kerch.

At the same time, the deputy head of the KSCA Nikolai Povoroznik noted that the city supports and appreciates such initiatives, but at the same time clarified that the decision on dismantling still needs to be made in the legal field: this should be done by the Kyiv City Council.

Recall that earlier the staff of the National Academic Theater of Russian Drama named after Lesya Ukrainka decided to remove the mention of “Russian drama” from the name, and Russian works, including “Eugene Onegin”, disappeared from the repertoire of the National Opera of Ukraine.

De-Russification of education

On statement Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine Sergei Shkarlet, the works of Russian writers who promoted the ideas of Nazism may be excluded from the course "Foreign Literature" in schools.

“Again, there are no complaints against Heine and Schiller, they did not promote the ideas of Nazism. We have Gogol. We will deeply review all the works that have previously been recommended, and we will be very critical of the content of this subject, even on selected works. ”, - he said.

Previously, we wrote that Pushkin monument dismantled in Ternopil, in Kyiv proposed to rename 5 metro stations.