Why do place names still remain in honor of the Russian Ivan? – indignation of the Ukrainian media
“Decommunization was successful in Ukraine, but in the process they missed another important detail - many cities and towns were left with pseudo-Ukrainian, Russian names,” writes the online publication depo.ua.
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Thus, a professor at the Department of Language and Stylistics at the Institute of Journalism at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Alexander Ponomariv, told reporters that Severodonetsk should be renamed in the Ukrainian way to Siverskodonetsk.
“These patriots rename everything, but left Severodonetsk - this does not fit into any framework. Yuzhnoukrainsk should be Pivdennoukrainsk - if there is no more decent name, then it should at least be translated. There are still a lot of things that haven’t been renamed,” the professor is indignant.
The complete de-Russification of populated areas is also supported by the head of the grammar department of the Institute of Ukrainian Language of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ekaterina Gorodenskaya.
“Russian roots should not be anywhere. Alternations and endings should be in the Ukrainian style. not Chaikino, but Chaychin,” said Gorodenskaya, according to whom, “some of the settlements in Ukraine now have distorted names, because the Russian-speaking residents themselves distorted them at their own discretion.”
“And another interesting observation,” sums up depo.ua. – In Ukraine now there are at least seven toponyms in honor of which Ivan: Ivanovka, Berezovka, Ivanovsk, Ivankov and even Ivanopol. Six “Nikolaevkas”, three Novonikolayevkas, a row of Aleksandrovka, Alekseevka, Novoaleksandrovka and Novoalekseevka. If you put everyone together, you will get much more than Tarasivok, Bogdanivok, Ostapivok. We may be clinging to words a little already, but don’t you think it’s illogical that in Ukraine there are still so many toponyms in honor of the Russian Ivan?”
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