The Verkhovna Rada has adopted a resolution to rename more than 300 settlements and districts. The resolution was voted in favour by 281 MPs, according to a report by Oleksiy Honcharenko.
The resolution renames 327 settlements. The resolution excludes the change of name for Pavlohrad, Synelnykove, Yuzhne, Yuzhnoukrayinsk, Pervomaysk.
These settlements are to be renamed by separate resolutions, the parliamentary speaker explained yesterday. Several variants will be created for them.
The renaming concerns settlements and districts in Vinnytsya, Volyn, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Zhytomyr, Transcarpathian, Zaporizhzhya, Kyiv, Kirovohrad, Luhansk, Lviv, Mykolayiv, Odesa, Poltava, Rivne, Sumy, Ternopil, Kharkiv, Kherson, Khmelnytskyy, Cherkasy and Chernihiv Regions. They contained symbols of Russian imperial policy or did not comply with the norms of the Ukrainian language.
The first resolution was to rename the city of Novomoskovsk to Samar, Pavlohrad to Matviyiv, Synelnykove to Ridnopillya, Pershtotravnivsk to Shakhtarsk, Pervomaysk in Luhansk Region to Sokolohorsk, and Pervomaysk in Mykolayiv Region to Olviopil, Molodohvardiysk to Otamanivka, Severodonetsk to Siversokodonetsk, Chervonohrad to Sheptytskyy, Yuzhnoukraynsk to Hard, Yuzhne to Port Annental, Druzhba to Khutir-Mykhaylivskyy, Krasnohrad to Berestyn, Pervomayskyy to Zlatopil, and Vatutine to Bahacheve.