The city council of the city of Novomoskovsk, Dnepropetrovsk region, decided to change the name of the city to New Samar. writes about this “Strana.ua”.
Options for renaming Samar and Prisamarsk were also considered.
Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor of the Department of History of the Dnieper National University Vladimir Vashchenko called this name a “remake”. According to him, it is not found in written sources.
After the decision of the city council, it must be approved by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
In December, Anna Gerich, secretary of the working group on decommunization issues within the regional administration statedIt was stated that 289 Soviet monuments have been dismantled in the Lviv region since the beginning of 2023.
Before reportedIt was stated that residents of the villages of Zagorye-Kukolnytskoye and Kinashev in the Ivano-Frankivsk region of Ukraine opposed the dismantling of monuments to Soviet soldiers at a meeting. It was recorded that the people living in these settlements said, “Let these monuments stand.”
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