Kherson Presents new guidebook detailing 2023–2024 street

Kherson presented a new guidebook "Liberated Map" that systematizes all the new names of streets, alleys, and other community facilities renamed in 2023-2024 as part of de-Russification and decommunization.

According to one of the authors of the publication, Dementiy Bilyi, a team of historians, sociologists, and local historians - Mykola Homanyuk, Serhiy Dyachenko, Natalia Kuzovova, Oleksiy Makienko, and Vadym Yarovyi - worked on the content. The design of the guide was created by a well-known Kherson designer Maksym Afanasiev. The publication was reviewed and approved by the Academic Council of Kherson State University.

The guide contains not only officially approved new geonyms with references to local authorities' decisions, but also detailed biographies of the people in whose honor the streets are named, historical names, dates of renaming, and the bodies that approved them. Some place names can be traced back to 1845. A separate section is devoted to "folk names" that are still used by residents.

The electronic version of the guide is more extensive: in addition to the main text, it contains scientific articles and the results of sociological surveys on the attitude of Kherson residents to the new names. The publication is illustrated with stamps depicting the figures in whose honor the streets are named, as well as old street lamps and signs.

The guide is available online for free download at khersonmemory.info. The authors encouraged citizens to send feedback and comments for the upcoming updated edition and share the link so that more Kherson residents could learn the history of their renovated streets.

Earlier it was reported that the Kherson City Military Administration renamed a number of streets, squares, and parks in the regional center. Independence and National Guard avenues have also appeared in Kherson.

Also, 13 settlements in Kherson region were renamed in early April. The renaming was supported by the Committee on the Organization of State Power of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on April 10. Among the renamed settlements, six are in Ukraine-controlled areas and seven are in the temporarily occupied territory of the region.

Ірина Глухова