In the city of Chernihiv, 37 streets and lanes were renamed, the names of which are associated with Russia and Belarus. This was announced by the city council on its website.

“At the plenary session of the 29th extraordinary session of the Chernihiv city council, the deputies supported the decision to rename the streets in Chernihiv,” the authorities said in a statement. It is clarified that such a decision was made to implement the "policy of purification" of the city from toponyms that symbolize Russia and Belarus.

According to the authorities, the streets and lanes named after the writer Mikhail Lermontov, the Soviet poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, the partisan Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya and others were renamed. In addition, Minsky Lane is now named after the pseudonym of the Ukrainian writer Anna Barvinok (Oleksandra Kulish), May 1 Street is named after Mikhail Grushevsky, chairman of the Central Rada.

Earlier, Kyiv took the lead in the de-Russification campaign that swept the cities of Ukraine. According to Transparency International, the Ukrainian capital has changed the most names associated with Russia. “The names of streets, boulevards, squares, squares, districts and even lakes and motor ships have been changed,” the organization said in a statement. Since the beginning of the Russian special operation in 33 cities of Ukraine, approximately 2,200 toponyms have been replaced.