Media: in the framework of decommunization in Ukraine rename almost 900 cities and villages
In Ukraine in the framework of decommunization 871 township has to change the name to 21 November, media outlets.
"Workers of the Ukrainian Institute of national memory and volunteers analyze almost 30 thousand Names of Ukrainian cities and villages. Data is continuously updated: in a list of 22 cities added six more, and increased the number of SMT, which should be renamed, with 44 to 48", writes Zn. Ua.
It is argued that the choice of the origin of names further research is needed. So, " a village in the Lviv region with a seemingly ordinary title perpetuates the Maksimovka officer of the NKVD Maximov, who fought against the UPA* "." And the village of Khrushchev Nikitovka in Kharkiv region, despite the obvious analogy, is named in the XVII-XVII centuries in honor of 2 Cossacks: in 1676 Uman Colonel Nikita Senenko received granted a Charter for these lands, And since 1738 in Nikitovka new owner - Nizhyn Colonel Ivan Khrushchev ", - is informed in the report. So, names are bound to change for 3% of all settlements.
* Organization, relative to which a court has adopted the legally effective conclusion Of destruction or prohibition of the activities on the grounds stipulated by the Federal law "On countering extremist activity"
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