Sept. 14, 2024, 7:06 p.m.
Odesa's Street Renaming: Honoring Heroes of Ukraine History
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The renaming of streets in Odesa grew out of a purely urban issue. The process of decommunization and decolonization is also discussed at the national level. The topic appears in public space and then disappears. The last big step was taken by the Odesa Regional Association of Historians.
With this material, Intent continues a series of publications in which we will tell you who is who on the new street map of Odesa. We have already told you which place names in the city were named after fallen soldiers and patriots and which place names were named after heroes of the Liberation Movement.
On July 29, it became known that the head of the Odesa Regional State Administration, Oleh Kiper, signed an order to rename a number of streets, alleys, and other place names in Odesa and the region.
According to the Law of Ukraine "On Condemnation and Prohibition of Propaganda of Russian Imperial Policy in Ukraine and Decolonization of Place Names," the Odesa City Council was supposed to rename all these streets by January 27, 2024. After that, Mayor Hennadiy Trukhanov had three months to rename the streets by his own order. He did not do so.
In the decision signed by Oleh Kiper, out of 84 renamings, 22 are related to the Russian-Ukrainian war, 11 to the Ukrainian Revolution (also the Liberation Movement) in 1917-1921, and 8 new names in honor of the Prosvita Society and the dissident movement.
TheProsvita Society (1868-1939) was a non-governmental organization founded in 1868 in Lviv with the aim of cultural and scientific development, consolidation of the national community, and raising the national consciousness of the Ukrainian people. The co-founder and chairman was a public figure and politician, UGCC priest Mykola Ustianovych.
"Prosvita expanded its activities to all Ukrainian lands (the most powerful networks were in Galicia, Bukovyna, Podillia, Kyiv, Volyn, and Zakarpattia). The established organizational structure (branches-reading rooms) in the western Ukrainian lands were subordinated to the Lviv Prosvita Society. In sub-Russian Ukraine, Prosvita societies, established in 1905-07 in provincial cities, coordinated the work of branches that operated under their own charters from 1917 onward.
The society had specially created terminology and textbook commissions. The society opened libraries, printing houses, bookstores, folk theaters, cinemas, and museums, staged performances on Ukrainian themes, celebrated anniversaries of famous Ukrainian figures and significant events of national importance, organized public readings, and improved Ukrainian schools.
New street names
Khadjibey district
Halyna Mohylnytska Street (as of 29.07.2024, Herzen Street)
Photo: Wikipedia
Halyna Mohylnytska (1937-2021) was a Ukrainian teacher, publicist, and poet, a member of the Ukrainian human rights movement. She is a laureate of the Vasyl Stus Prize (2008), the Iryna Kalynets Prize (2019), and the Odesa Municipal Cultural Capital Prize (2020). She was born on May 8, 1937, in Odesa to a family of teachers. She spent her childhood years in Kryvoozershchyna, near the Southern Bug (now Mykolaiv region). In 1994, she returned to Odesa, where she worked as a teacher of Ukrainian language and literature at secondary school No. 117, and as a chief specialist in the department for work with parties and public organizations of the Odesa City Executive Committee. Since 1997, she has been a lecturer at the Department of Methods of Teaching Humanities at the Odesa Regional Institute for Advanced Training of Educators.
Dmytro Syharevych Street (as of 29.07.2024, Academician Pankratova Street)
Dmytro Syharevych (1868 - 1914) was a Ukrainian educator and public figure. After graduating from the Novorossiysk University in Odesa, he taught Russian at 5 gymnasiums in Odesa (until 1907). He was the director of an orphanage in Odesa, a member of the city's Prosvita department. He was an active member of the Odesa community. On its behalf, he was in contact with Galicia.
Hanna Mykhailenko Street (as of 29.07.2024, Spartakivska Street)
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Hanna Mykhailenko (née Smoliy; 1929 - 2015) was a Ukrainian translator, human rights activist, and public figure. She was a member of the Ukrainian human rights movement and an undeclared member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group. In the early 1990s, Hanna Mykhailenko organized a rebuff to an attempt to resettle 25,000 Russians in the Odesa region to change the demographic situation and proclaim a buffer "republic." She also organized mass protests in Odesa against the attempt of the Odesa Regional Council, headed by Ruslan Bodelan, not to recognize the Act of Independence of Ukraine and proclaim "Novorossia". A mass picket by Odesa residents thwarted this attempt on February 11, 1993. By the Decree of the President of Ukraine of November 26, 2005, Hanna Mykhailenko was awarded the Order of Princess Olga, III degree; by the Decree of November 8, 2006, she was awarded the Order "For Courage", I degree.
Prymorskyi district
Nina Strokatoyi Street (as of 29.07.2024, Bunin Street)
Nina and Sviatoslav Karavansky. Photo: Wikipedia
Nina Strokata (née Karavanska after her marriage; January 31, 1926, Odesa - August 2, 1998, Denton) was a Ukrainian dissident, Soviet microbiologist and immunologist. She was a member of the dissident movement in the USSR, a co-founder of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, and one of the leading human rights activists in Odesa during the Soviet period. She is the author of about 23 scientific papers in the field of clinical microbiology and immunology. She spoke Ukrainian, English, German, Polish, and Romanian.
Ivan Lutsenko Lane (as of 29.07.2024, Vice Admiral Zhukov Lane)
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Ivan Lutsenko (1863-1919) was a physician, public, political and military figure of Ukraine, politician, historiographer of the history of Ukraine, and historian of the Cossack era. In 1882-1886, he studied at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of St. Petersburg University, and in 1887-1891 at the Imperial Military Medical Academy. After defending his doctoral dissertation at the St. Petersburg Military Medical Academy, which was published as a separate book in 1893, he moved to Odesa. He lived on Khersonska Street (now Pastera Street), in the fifty-second house. Here, all the organizational work related to the creation of the Odesa Prosvita was carried out.
Sviatoslav Karavanskyi Street (as of 29.07.2024, Zhukovskoho Street)
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Sviatoslav Karavanskyi (1920-2016) was a Ukrainian linguist, poet, translator, journalist, and self-published author. A long-term prisoner of the Soviet camps of the USSR in 1944-1960, 1965-1979. Member of the OUN. Born in Odesa, he has been in exile since 1979.
Mykola Savych Street (as of 29.07.2024, Sabaneev Bridge Street)
Mykola Savych (1808 - 1892) was a public figure and journalist of the Russian Empire. He participated in the Russo-Turkish War of 1828-1829. In the mid-1840s he met Taras Shevchenko and in 1846 became a member of the Cyril and Methodius Society. For his participation in it and for his views opposed to the autocracy, in 1847 he was recalled from abroad, arrested, and placed under police surveillance. From 1848, Mykola Savych lived in Odesa, was a member of the City Duma, became a member of the Imperial Odesa Society of History and Antiquities, and collaborated with the Odesa Bulletin newspaper, where he wrote articles on political and economic topics.
Vitalii Borovyk Street (as of 29.07.2024, Yurii Olesha Street)
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Vitalii Borovyk (1864-1937, Odesa) was a Ukrainian publicist, poet, and translator. His real name was Borovikov. He also signed his works with cryptonyms: V. B.; V. B-k. He was a victim of Stalin's repressions. In 1899, Borovyk was imprisoned as a "politically unreliable" person. After the revolutionary events of 1917, he worked in agricultural institutions in Odesa. In 1919, he was one of the initiators of the creation of the Ukrainian State Library in Odesa. He was arrested by the NKVD. He was shot dead on December 28, 1937.
