Lavrska street in Kyiv to be renamed in honor of Mazepa

Lavrska Street in Kyiv. Photo: Apostrophe

Lavrska Street in Kyiv will be renamed in honor of Ivan Mazepa. This was announced on Facebook by Tymish Martynenko-Kushlyansky, a member of the Kyiv City Council’s naming commission, on February 12.

According to him, this and several other renamings will “restore historical justice and strengthen Kyiv’s symbolic space.”

“I am proud that the commission members, by majority vote, supported the return of the name of Hetman Ivan Mazepa to Lavrska Street. The path of the Kyiv community to this logical and fair decision has been long,” he wrote.

Martynenko-Kushlyansky stated that the Kyiv City Council’s 2010 decision to divide the street was made at the request of Patriarch Kirill and was “absolutely illegal in terms of procedure and disgraceful in terms of morality.”

He also asserted that the name “Lavrska” Street became a “shameful stain on the map of our city.” “Today we took the first step to erase this shame and return the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra to a street named after one of its greatest benefactors,” the official said.

Additionally, the section of Lavrska Street from Dobrovolchi Battalions Street to Navodnytska Square has been proposed to be renamed Novonavodnytska Street. “This decision is equally important as it aims to revive the historical toponymic environment of the Navodnychi area,” he added.

Public discussion is still ahead, the commission member noted.

As previously reported by the UOJ, 25 MPs had earlier urged Klitschko to rename Lavrska Street in honor of Mazepa.

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