The Verkhovna Rada has passed a resolution to rename more than 320 settlements and districts. This was reported by Komersant ukrainskyi
, citing the Telegram channel of MP Oleksiy Honcharenko.
The adopted document was created on the basis of a resolution that MPs voted down yesterday. After the failure, some MPs blocked the rostrum, demanding that a conciliation council be convened and the issue be put back to a vote.
The renaming concerns settlements and districts in Vinnytsia, Volyn, Dnipropetrovs’k, Donetsk, Zhytomyr, Zakarpattia, Zaporizhzhia, Kyiv, Kirovohrad, Luhansk, Lviv, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Poltava, Rivne, Sumy, Ternopil, Kharkiv, Kherson, Khmelnytsky, Cherkasy and Chernihiv regions. They contained symbols of Russian imperial policy or did not comply with the norms of the Ukrainian language.
281 MPs voted in favour.
The resolution renames 328 settlements. The resolution excludes the name changes for Pavlohrad, Synelnykove, Yuzhne, Yuzhnoukrainsk, and Pervomaisk.
These settlements are to be renamed by separate resolutions, the parliamentary speaker explained yesterday. Several options will be created for them.
The first resolution would rename the city of Novomoskovsk to Samar, Pavlohrad to Matviyiv, Synelnykove to Ridnopillia, Pershtotranevsk to Shakhtarsk, Pervomaisk in Luhansk Oblast to Sokologorsk, and Pervomaisk in Mykolaiv Oblast to Olviopol, Molodohvardiysk to Otamanivka, Sievierodonetsk to Siversokodonetsk, Chervonohrad to Sheptytskyi, Yuzhnoukrainsk to Gard, Pivdenne to Port Annental, Druzhba to Khutir-Mykhailivskyi, Krasnohrad to Berestyn, Pervomaisky to Zlatopil, and Vatutine to Bahacheve.