In Ukraine, the city of Vatutin named after the Soviet general will be renamed

The city of Vatutyno, Cherkasy region of Ukraine, may receive a new name, local authorities at a meeting discussed the renaming of the city, which was named after Soviet General Nikolai Vatutin, who died in Kiev.

As the Vatutinsk city council reported on social networks, proposals for renaming the city were collected from September 23 to November 23.

“Proposals regarding the future name of the city were different, they were connected both with our locality and the country as a whole,” Vatutino City Council said on Facebook (banned in Russia, owned by the Meta corporation, recognized as extremist in the Russian Federation).

Bogachevo’s version received the largest number of votes – 206. This is the name of the railway station located in the city. The next meeting of the City Council, which will consider the issue of renaming, will be held on December 22.

Hero of the Soviet Union Nikolai Vatutin was born in 1901 in the Voronezh province. During the Great Patriotic War, he rose to the rank of army general. Vatutin commanded the troops of the 1st Ukrainian Front from the autumn of 1943, he died in Kyiv a year before the end of the war. In Russia and Ukraine, monuments were erected to the Soviet general, settlements and streets were named in his honor.

On April 28, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine submitted to the Verkhovna Rada a draft law on withdrawing from the agreement on perpetuating the memory of the courage and heroism of the peoples of the CIS member states in the Great Patriotic War. The agreement provides that its participants carry out activities to preserve the memory of the fallen servicemen, maintain and equip military graves and monuments. At the end of August, the Kiev administration renamed 95 streets, lanes and squares whose names are associated with Russia or the USSR.

In November Odessa City Council voted for the dismantling of monuments to the Russian Empress Catherine II and commander Alexander Suvorov.