Soviet toponyms will be returned to Melitopol: st. Yaroslav the Wise will be st. Rosa Luxembourg, and Cathedral Square – Revolution Square

55 streets, 30 lanes and one square in Melitopol will be returned to their former Soviet names that existed before Ukraine decommunized. This was announced by the head of the city administration Galina Danilchenko.

“In 2016, as part of the so-called Ukrainian decommunization, many streets of Melitopol were renamed in honor of Ukrainian Nazi ideologists, they tried to erase our historical names,” Ms. Danilchenko wrote in her Telegram.

She stated that the decree on renaming the streets was signed by the Acting Governor of the Zaporizhia region Yevhen Balitsky. In the near future, the administration of Melitopol will replace the address plates and amend the documents.

In particular, Lokomotivnaya Street will be renamed Dmitry Ulyanov Street, Mikhail Grushevsky Street – Karl Marx Street. Maria Batrakova Street will become Komsomolskaya Street, Yaroslav the Wise Street – Rosa Luxembourg Street. Ukrainsky Lane will be renamed Sovetsky Lane, and Cathedral Square will become Revolution Square.

In December 2022, Yevgeny Balitsky ordered the return of the former names of city objects that were lost during decommunization. According to him, almost 600 streets were renamed in Zaporozhye and more than 100 monuments were dismantled. In addition, in early January, a discussion arose about how the Donetsk city, which had not yet been taken by the Russian army, should be called: Bakhmut, as it was originally called, or Artemovsk, as it was called in Soviet times. Acting Head of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) Denis Pushilin offered leave this issue for a referendum.

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