New street names will appear in Kharkiv, which will perpetuate the names of the 13th operational brigade of the NGU “Charter” and the 92nd separate assault brigade named after Koshevoy Ataman Ivan Sirko.
Kharkiv Metro
48 streets and 3 metro stations will be renamed in Kharkiv. The OVA voted for new names of streets and metro stations in accordance with the law “On the condemnation and prohibition of propaganda of Russian imperial policy in Ukraine and the decolonization of toponymy.”
It is noted that the region has completed large-scale work on renaming objects of toponymy, carried out jointly with the North-Eastern territorial department of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance and participants in the process of de-imperialization and decolonization of toponymy.
In particular, the names of the metro stations “Heroes of Labor”, “Plant named after Malyshev” and “Gagarin Avenue” will change to “Saltovskaya”, “Zavodskaya” and “Levada”, respectively; streets of Heroes of Labor on Nepokorennykh, Lermontovskaya on Mike Johansen, Friendship of Peoples on Sobornost of Ukraine, Gagarin Avenue on Aerospace Avenue, etc.
Also, new street names will appear in Kharkov, which will perpetuate the names of the 13th operational brigade of the NSU “Charter” and the 92nd separate assault brigade named after Koshevoy Ataman Ivan Sirko.
Replacement of toponyms within populated areas, as well as the dismantling of monuments and memorial signs was carried out by local governments of settlements, chairmen of urban and rural communities during July 27, 2023 – April 27, 2024.
- In April of this year, the Kharkov metro has already de-Russified two station names – “Pushkinskaya” became “Yaroslav the Wise”, and “Yuzhny Station” – “Vokzalnaya”. At the same time, another 367 toponyms were renamed.
- At the beginning of 2024, deputies of the Kharkov City Council renamed 65 toponyms, the names of which were associated with Russia and its allies.
- In the summer of 2022, Terekhov reported that in Kharkov plans to change about 400 names associated with Russia. But this did not apply to Pushkin streets and the Pushkin metro station.
- However, after flying around the city, Terekhov changed his mind and himself proposed renaming Pushkinskaya.