Kyiv without Tolstoy: 15 more streets were renamed in the capital

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The Kyiv City Council renamed streets, boulevards and one avenue, the names of which are related to Russia and the Soviet past. 

About this informed Deputy of the Kyiv City Council Hryhoriy Malenko.

Leo Tolstoy Square the square was named Ukrainian Heroes. Perova Boulevard renamed to Voskresensky Avenue, Vyzvolyteliv Avenue - on Georgy Narbut avenue, Yuriy Gagarin avenue - on Leonid Kadenyuk Ave, Maryna Tsvetaeva Street - on the street Alexander Exter (artist, representative of European Cubism and Futurism, one of the founders of the Art Deco style).

In addition, new names were given:

  • Khokhlov Family Street - Gareth Jonas (the first foreign journalist who revealed the truth about the Holodomor to the world)
  • the street of the Soviet cosmonaut Volkov - Popovych (the first Ukrainian in space)
  • Pyatigorska – Alpiyska street
  • Moskvina street - Ivan Firtsak (an outstanding Ukrainian wrestler, strongman, circus artist "Ivan Sila")
  • Suzdalska Street – Oleksy Hirnyka (Ukrainian dissident, political prisoner who committed self-immolation against the Russification of Ukraine)
  • Tagilska Street – Oksany Meshko (biologist, participant of the opposition movement in Ukraine in the post-war period, head of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group)
  • Stolyetov street - Ulas Samchuk
  • Marshalska Street – Halyny Sevruk (an outstanding artist and ceramist)
  • Dobrolyubova Street - Volodymyr Korotkevich (a native of Kyiv, an outstanding Belarusian writer, a patriot of Belarus

In total, 288 city objects have already been renamed in the capital.

 

 

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