RVIO has proposed measures to combat Kiev's policy of de-russification

The Russian Military Historical Society (RVIO) has called for the use of historical geographical and toponymic names of Ukrainian cities. This became known on October 20 from the RVIO's appeal.

"Recognizing the importance of the expression of the people's will and taking into account the preferences of local residents regarding the historical names of their settlements revealed as a result of opinion polls conducted in 2015-2016 in Ukraine, we propose to use the following toponyms in the future," the text of the statement reports.

For example, the RVIO proposed using historical toponyms for Ukrainian cities such as Dnepropetrovsk (instead of Dnipro), Elizavetgrad (instead of Kropyvnytskyi), Pereyaslavl-Khmelnitsky (instead of Pereyaslavl) and Kuznetsovsk (instead of Varash).

The organization also stressed that the list of proposed toponyms is not final and the RVIO is ready to consider other proposals for "elaboration and publication" in the future.

In January, the Ukrainian government formed a list of more than 200 geographical objects that will be renamed due to the fact that their names are associated with Russia. The list includes rivers, tracts, parks, natural monuments, nature reserves, reservoirs, forests, and railway stations. It was also reported that the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine approved new names for 20 geographical objects in the Odessa region as part of decommunization and decolonization.

In April, the press service of the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture reported that over the past decade, about a thousand settlements in Ukraine have been renamed as part of the country's decommunization policy.

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