The authorities of the city of Lozovoy, Kharkiv region, in accordance with the policy of “derussification”, renamed 122 streets in 18 administratively connected settlements. This was reported by the KHARKIV Today publication.
According to media reports, instead of place names associated with the history and culture of Russia and the USSR, names will appear in honor of various Ukrainian figures and organizations. Thus, the street of the writer Maxim Gorky will be named in honor of the Carpathian Sich, a paramilitary organization of the self-proclaimed Carpathian Ukrainian Republic, which existed in 1939. And Leo Tolstoy Street will be named after the Ukrainian politician and Soviet dissident Vyacheslav Chernovol.
Previously ripped off Monument to Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, located in the village of Belenchenkovka in the Poltava region of Ukraine.
Before that, at the end of 2022, in Kiev Unknown He painted the largest Pushkin monument in Ukraine.
The fight against Soviet and Russian monuments in Ukraine began eight years ago after the adoption of the ostracism law.