Gathered in Kiev to rename a Moscow street in honor of the deceased in " ATO "

The Commission on names makes recommendations to the Kyiv city Council to rename the street 3 Moscow according to the law On decommunization, informs a press-service of the city Council.

The prospectus of Heroes of Stalingrad in the Obolon district deputies proposed to rename in honor of the Ukrainian composer and poet, Hero of Ukraine Volodymyr Ivasiuk. The street Petrovsky in the Desnyansky district propose to name in honor of chemical engineer, art critic and collector Vasily Bearing. The streets of the capital in the Pechersk district elected officials want to name the fighter of 57-th separate motorized infantry brigade Dmitry Gudzenko, who died may 31 at the Donbass, informs news Agency. The Commission also appealed to the mayor of the capital Vitaly Klitschko with the application to restore procedure of renaming Vatutin Avenue the Avenue named after Roman Shukhevych ? hauptsturmf?hrer of the SS, one of the commanders of the unit "Nachtigall" in the early winter of 1943 appointed commander of the Ukrainian insurgent army (UPA*). July 7, deputies of the Kiev city Council renamed Metropolitan Avenue in prospect of Stepan Bandera. Bandera ? the founder of the Organization of Ukrainian nationalists ? of the Ukrainian insurgent army (OUN-UPA) in world war II collaborated with Nazi Germany. The conscience of the fighters of the OUN-UPA hundred thousand killed, and among them about 200 thousand poles, who became the victims of the Volyn massacre. The law "about the condemnation of the Communist and Nazi regimes" operating in Ukraine since may 2015. He suggests, for example, the renaming of cities and streets named after Soviet statesmen. In October 2015 the Ukrainian Institute of national remembrance published a list of 520 names, "which are required to be erased from maps of Ukraine" to 21 November in Accordance with the legislative act of de-communization.
* Organization, regarding which the court accepted entered into legal force of the conclusion About destruction or prohibition of activity on the grounds stipulated by the Federal law "On countering extremist activity"


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