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List of Ukrainian placenames affected by decommunization

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According to the Law of Ukraine No. 317-VIII "About condemning Communist and National-Socialist (Nazi) totalitarian regimes in Ukraine and banning propaganda of their symbols", names of over 3% of populated places in Ukraine are subjected to change.

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The following are a series of resolutions that the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has passed regarding decommunization through the renaming of populated places:

  • Resolution (RVRU) 984-VIII, adopted 4 February 2016, entered into force on 18 February 2016
  • Resolution (RVRU) 1037-VIII, adopted 17 March 2016, entered into force on 2 April 2016
  • Resolution (RVRU) 1351-VIII, adopted 12 May 2016, entered into force on 22 May 2016
  • Resolution (RVRU) 1352-VIII, adopted 12 May 2016, entered into force on 7 September 2023[1]
  • Resolution (RVRU) 1353-VIII, adopted 12 May 2016, entered into force on 22 May 2016
  • Resolution (RVRU) 1374-VIII, adopted 19 May 2016, entered into force on 3 June 2016
  • Resolution (RVRU) 1377-VIII, adopted 19 May 2016, entered into force on 3 June 2016
  administrative units and populated places located on temporarily occupied territories
  administrative units partially located on temporarily occupied territories

Status of populated places:

  • underlined centers of oblasts (regions)
  • bold marked centers of raions (districts; pre-2020 reform)
  • italic marked centers of hromadas (communities; for hromadas where scheduled elections already took place)

Note: names of administrative units to which are subordinated other administrative units or populated places indicated as of 1 January 2016.

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Administrative units

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Oblasts

Since the oblasts' (regions') names in Ukraine are prescribed in the Constitution, renaming changes should be made to the Constitution first.

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Raions

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Cities, villages

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Autonomous Republic of Crimea

The Autonomous Republic of Crimea is administered by the Russian Federation due to the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea.

The Ministry of Temporarily Occupied Territories and Internally displaced persons is a government ministry in Ukraine that was officially established on 20 April 2016[2] to manage occupied parts of Donetsk, Luhansk and Crimea regions affected by Russian military intervention of 2014.

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Cherkasy Oblast

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Chernihiv Oblast

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Chernivtsi Oblast

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Dnipropetrovsk Oblast

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Donetsk Oblast

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Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast

  • no places to rename

Kharkiv Oblast

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Kherson Oblast

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Khmelnytskyi Oblast

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Kyiv

  • no places to rename (there are no other settlements subordinated to Kyiv City Council except for the City of Kyiv)

Kyiv Oblast

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Kirovohrad Oblast

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Luhansk Oblast

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Lviv Oblast

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Mykolaiv Oblast

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Odesa Oblast

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Poltava Oblast

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Rivne Oblast

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Sevastopol

Sumy Oblast

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Ternopil Oblast

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Vinnytsia Oblast

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Volyn Oblast

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Zakarpattia Oblast

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Zaporizhzhia Oblast

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Zhytomyr Oblast

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