Proposals to rename the streets and demolish some monuments caused a strong reaction in the bulk of Kyiv, which resulted in social networks. Of course, without any conceptual approaches and public discussion, such proposals can cause rejection and discord that are completely unnecessary today..

The decision of the Kyiv City Council No. 4571/4612 dated April 15, 2022 clearly defines the goals of the renaming: 1) weakening the information and cultural influence of the Moscow narrative on the worldview of the people of Kiev; 2) creation of prerequisites for the impossibility of agitation and propaganda activities of persons hostile to Ukraine; 3) decolonization of toponymy in the city of Kyiv.

It should be noted that you, as deputies of the Kyiv City Council, are trying to relieve yourself of responsibility for renaming in this matter: as Volodymyr Bondarenko, secretary of the city council, said, “a rating vote will be held, since it is the residents who must determine new names for city objects”.

However, here the question arises: who determined the list of streets and monuments that today urgently need to be renamed or demolished? In the list of 467 streets published on the RAG website, there is no justification for the need to change the names, nor is the author or authors of the list identified.. But if the public does not understand the reasons for renaming streets or removing monuments and does not know the names of the initiators of this campaign, it will be meaningless..

For example, what is the Moscow narrative of the last two names on the list - Yasnogorskaya and Yasnaya Polyanskaya streets? Maybe they bear the stamp of the colonization of Ukraine in the past? Unlikely. If other toponyms of Russian origin (Amurskaya Square or Donskaya Street, for example) are linked to the aggressor country, then these names are completely neutral. By the way, in the well-known decisions of the city executive committee of the 1950s, where they came from, the motivation for these names is not given, so maybe the authors of the initiative should explain why these streets were on the “black list”?

To put it mildly, the suggestion of the head of the Kyiv Metro, V. Braginsky (here the authorship is known) to rename the Beresteyskaya metro station. Obviously, his knowledge of Ukrainian history is limited to associations with the city of Brest, but in fact the name of the station is associated with the ancient Russian city of the Drevlyans Berestye, the first mention of which dates back to 1017.. Berestye is also mentioned in The Tale of Bygone Years under 1019 in connection with the struggle of the sons of Vladimir the Great Svyatopolk and Yaroslav for the throne of Kyiv. What does Belarus, the Moscow narrative or the colonial past have to do with it

One way or another, everyone understands that it is the Kyiv City Council that will make the final decision, therefore, gentlemen, deputies, let me make a number of comments regarding the renaming and their compliance with the goals declared by the Kyiv City Council..

Further I give a list of persons whose names the streets of Kyiv are named and who, in my opinion, do not meet these goals.

Anna Akhmatova - the great poetess, known for her anti-Soviet stance, was persecuted by the Stalinist regime, was born and spent her young years in Kyiv. Together with her " Mayakovsky and M. Tsvetaeva, who had difficult relations with the Soviet authorities and a difficult life, both committed suicide, but remain outstanding cultural figures, without determining her nationality.

Mykola Bazhan - Ukrainian classical poet, translator, culturologist, encyclopedist, philosopher, public figure, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, persecuted by the NKVD, editor-in-chief of the Ukrainian Radiant Encyclopedia, nominated by Harvard University for the Nobel Prize, but refused this honor (. Pasternak).

Mikhail Bulgakov - was born and lived in Kyiv, known for the essentially anti-Soviet story "

Ambrose Buchma - an outstanding Ukrainian actor and director, was sentenced to death in the tsarist army during the First World War for slapping an officer, one of the leading figures of the Ukrainian theater, played for the first time T. Shevchenko in Ukrainian cinema.

Vladimir Vysotsky is an outstanding actor and bard poet, in his songs he is an outspoken opponent of the Soviet regime and way of life.

Zhambil Zhabaev (better known as Dzhambul Dzhabaev) is a poet-prophet of the Kazakh people, translated into many languages \u200b\u200bof the world, an admirer of Taras Shevchenko, his son died during the liberation of Ukraine, a monument to him was erected at the initiative of Kazakhstan, so his demolition will look somehow. He also sang of the Soviet regime and Stalin personally, but this does not humiliate his legacy as a poet..

Nikolai Lavrukhin - worked as the first deputy of all chairmen of the executive committee of. Kyiv for 20 years, from 1970 to 1990, in 1990 he became chairman of the executive committee. His only “dark spot” was the head of the department of construction and housing and communal services in the Kiev Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine 1963–1970 His activities, a model for employees of the executive branch of Kyiv, were honored posthumously in the name of the street, and its renaming will be a demotivating example for modern employees of the KSCA.

Raisa Okipnaya - prima of the Kyiv Opera House, underground worker, intelligence officer during World War II, fought against the Nazi invaders, exposed in 1942, tortured and executed by the Gestapo. In fact, Kievrada can execute her a second time - morally, destroying the memory of her.

Pavlo Tychyna - in 1970-1971, Vasily Stus wrote a literary study on the work of Pavel Tychyna called " In this work, he approvingly assessed the early work of Tychyna and criticized the well-known and famous socialist realism: “The glory of a genius forced to be a pygmy, a jester at the court of the bloody king, was forbidden. The glory of the pygmy, who began to parasitize against the background of a genius, was provided by a huge propaganda trust.. For Ukraine P. Tychyna remains, above all, the genius of Ukrainian poetry.

Konstantin Paustovsky - has deep Ukrainian roots from both parents, his great-grandfather - a native of the Zaporizhzhya Sich. In childhood and youth he lived for a long time in Kyiv, after the October Revolution he returned to Ukraine. Participated in battles in the ranks of the Serdyuk division of Hetman Skoropadsky, in the story "

Romain Rolland - classic of French literature, public figure, Nobel Prize winner. According to the logic of the proposed \?

The names of other poets and prose writers on the list are in question - Leonid Pervomaisky, Natan Rybak, Semyon Sklyarenko, Yuri Smolich, Nikolai Trublaini, Vasily Chumak. Despite their ideological orientation, all of them are outstanding figures, first of all, of Ukrainian culture..

It would be possible to continue the list, we have not touched on scientists who are not connected with ideology at all. According to the logic of the " Why did Vladimir Bekhterev and others get on the list, but Pirogov did not

Finally, I must address those who have lived most of their lives in independent Ukraine and are little aware of the realities of life under Soviet rule.. It was life in a distorted world, where all landmarks are displaced, like a kind of looking glass. Communism, as Nikolai Berdyaev, a resident of Kiev, once wrote in his book The Origins and Meaning of Russian Communism (1933), is a religion, and therefore, everyone had to put something and put a candle on its altar. Without it, life was impossible or almost impossible.. In particular, every artist certainly had to dedicate something to the party (communist) and power (Soviet), for example, a sculptor blinded a monument to Lenin by order of some collective farm or factory - and then for several years he can live comfortably and sculpt what he wants.... Lenin! Of course, this duplicity did not just pass for everyone, but we must judge these people (in particular, those who were on the "

Dear deputies, I ask you to be very careful about the historical and moral assessments that you must make by your decision, otherwise, as it has happened many times, history will repeat itself or laugh at you.

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