The Verkhovna Rada Committee supported the renaming of Chervonohrad, Brovary and a number of other settlements
The Verkhovna Rada Committee on the Organization of State Power, Local Self-Government, Regional Development and Urban Planning supported the renaming of a number of Ukrainian settlements
This was announced on March 20 by MP Roman Lozynskyi.
According to him, the committee supported the renaming of five cities and 104 villages and settlements. In particular, it is proposed to rename it:
- Chervonohrad, Lviv region, on Sheptytsky Street;
- Yuzhne, in the Odesa region, is on Port Anental;
- Pavlohrad (Dnipropetrovs’k region) – to Matviyiv;
- Synelnykove (Dnipropetrovs’k region) – to Ridnopillia;
- Brovary (Kyiv region) – in Brovary.
Lozynsky called the committee’s decision to rename the site “historic.”
Now the renaming must be approved by the Verkhovna Rada.
Earlier, activists demanded that Brovary be renamed Brovary and voiced historical and linguistic reasons for this. According to them, the poet Taras Shevchenko wrote about Brovary. This name of the city was used in the past in literature, newspapers, and documents, as well as by the residents themselves in their oral speech. Old-timers still call the city Brovary, the activists said.
As for Pavlohrad, the Institute of National Remembrance recognized this name as a symbol of Russian imperial policy.
On January 23, members of the city council of Novomoskovsk, in the Dnipro region, voted to rename the city Nova Samara.
