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April 22, 2025, 7:16 p.m.

Odesa City Council Rejects Plans to Rename Streets After Russian Figures

Anna Akhmatova Street Photo: Google maps

(Anna Akhmatova Street Photo: Google maps)

The Department of International Cooperation of Culture and Marketing of the Odesa City Council reported that the city council does not plan to rename some streets and alleys of the city after Russian cultural figures, politicians and military.

This became known from the response to the request of the NGO "Decolonization. Ukraine".

These are the streets: Anna Akhmatova, Astashkin, Bekhreev, Volodya Dubinin, Kondrashin, Korney Chukovsky, Krasnov, Kuprin, Levitan, Nikolai Gumilev, Nemirovich-Danchenko, Alexander Bok, Pavel Shklyaruk, Sobinov, and Artist Fedorov.

And also about the seven lanes: Malynovskyi, Pavlova, Vorontsovskyi, Astashkina, Pershotravnevyi, Hlazunova, and Vrubel.

According to the Historical and Toponymic Commission at the Convocation Committee of the Odesa City Council, these names do not fall under the laws "On Decommunization" and "On Decolonization of Place Names."

<span>Instead, it is planned to rename Lobachevsky and Molochna lanes and Lyadova Street.</span>

Earlier, activists of the NGO Decolonization.Ukraine updated the map with the number of streets that they believe should be renamed, counting 207 in Odesa Oblast. Odesa region continues to rank fifth in Ukraine in terms of the number of streets to be renamed in the process of decommunization and decolonization of the country by region.

Earlier, activists of the organization Decolonization. Ukraine organization appealed to the Odesa City Council to dismantle 40 memorial plaques in the city, which they attributed to the Soviet and imperial heritage. Meanwhile, in Odesa, the city council instructed the Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture to create projects for the dismantling of Russian and Soviet monuments. Funds for the development of projects for the demolition of monuments with imperial symbols were allocated at a session of the Odesa City Council on December 4. Eleven monuments were discussed.

Кирило Бойко

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